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Farmers will be hoping for warm, dry weather in order to get a diminished crop off the field in light of an early snow that damaged yields of crops this year.

Crop yields were dealt a major blow with the snowstorm that hit Central Alberta beginning on Sept. 8.

Country Residential 1 District landowners in Mountain View County now have more housing options available to them.

There were over 20 people in attendance at the Carstairs Community Centre on Sept. 8 for an open house to gather input on Mountain View County's proposed Wessex Area Structure Plan (ASP).

Snowstorms on Sept. 8 and Sept. 10 contributed to power outages and road hazards throughout parts of Red Deer and Mountain View counties.

The key harvest management issue with snow on standing canola concerns not so much the precipitation (although heavy snow can cause lodging) but the frost that comes with it, according to the Alberta Canola Producers Commission.

The $6.9-million modernization and expansion Phase 1 project at the Innisfail Schools Campus is almost complete. The much-heralded $12- million Phase 2 project to modernize the campus's École John Wilson Elementary School is just starting.

Determined to keep its rural municipality free from roaming massive pests, Red Deer County has renewed its agreement with the Alberta government to participate in the Wild Boar at Large Bounty Program.

Kurt Kure has been down this road before except last time the stakes were not as high.

A proposal to get rural motorists in Mountain View County to brake for firefighters responding to fire calls in their personal vehicles has come to a screeching halt. Mountain View County council unanimously opposed first reading of a bylaw on Sept.