Local News

CARSTAIRS - Newly-elected Carstairs councillor Shannon Wilcox says she is looking forward to working with her fellow council members over the next four years. Elected on Oct. 16, Wilcox is the only newcomer on the council elected Oct.

DIDSBURY - Staff at will surely need to hand out name tags at the first couple of council meetings. With none of the seven incumbents being re-elected, the new council has all new faces.

DIDSBURY - The Town of Didsbury will have an entirely new town council for the next four years, according to unofficial results released Monday. None of the seven incumbents were re-elected in the Oct. 16 municipal election.

A conservation easement agreement signed last week between Mountain View County and Legacy Land Trust Society for a property southwest of Sundre will benefit the community-at-large for years to come, stakeholders say.

This is my long-awaited column on everything saucy. Ok, maybe not awaited by many but still, who doesn't love sauce, gravy, dips - all that fun stuff. For those of you counting calories, I promise you that today's column has zero calories.

DIDSBURY - A local youth attended the recent War Amps 2017 Western Child Amputee (CHAMP) Seminar in Calgary, which brought together young amputees from across the western provinces.

DIDSBURY - It was a chilling surprise for council members to learn of an extra cost of $51,659.96 the town was on the hook for extra repair costs outside the original cost to replace the chiller at the ice plant at the Didsbury Memorial Complex.

In an effort to help meet its yearly need for about 300,000 tonnes of gravel, Mountain View County council has approved the redesignation of a 160-acre parcel of land immediately west of Sundre from agriculture district to aggregate extraction/proces

Sundre Municipal Library officials have given Mountain View County councillors an update on activities at the facility. The review came during the recent policies and priorities committee meeting.

When it comes to Premier Rachel Notley's much-ballyhooed social licence it certainly doesn't appear as though Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre wanted a deep dish of it to augment his poutine.