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Sixteen residents attended Mountain View County Deputy Reeve Patricia McKean's spring open house at the Big Prairie Hall on April 17. During the meeting the first-term councillor for Div.

The Mountain View County Agricultural Service Board has again come out in support of a local crop-growing project that supports overseas communities suffering from famine and food shortages.

Taxes are on the increase in Mountain View County after councillors passed the 2013 tax rate bylaw and the 2013 operational budget during last week's regularly scheduled council meeting. The tax rate bylaw calls for a 1.

First-term Mountain View County Division 5 councillor Bob Orr says he is still undecided whether to run in the October 2013 municipal election. Speaking at his spring open house at the James River Hall on April 11, Orr said: “I'm still up in the air.

Eighty-five people attended an open house at the Eagle Hill Community Centre on April 8 for the release of the Sundre Petroleum Operator's Group's new beneficial management practices for hydraulic fracturing.

Mountain View County councillors have OK'd the municipality's new dog control bylaw, which includes new provisions regarding agricultural guardian dogs.

A public hearing has started into proposed amendments to the Mountain View County land use bylaw that would add a new land use district titled “aggregate extraction/processing district.

First-term Division 1 Mountain View County councillor Kevin Good says he will not seek another term in the October 2013 municipal election.

Red Deer County council gave first reading to a bylaw that would trigger a two per cent increase in taxes for 2013 at last week's regularly scheduled council meeting.

A project focusing on how well Alberta's young children are developing emotionally, intellectually, socially and physically has found that 34 per cent of kindergarten-age children in the western part of Red Deer County are struggling with language an