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Mountain View County council recently threw its support behind the recently formed Legacy Land Trust Society. At council's recent meeting councillors agreed that the county would support the society in its general aims.

Provincial officials are calling on area crop producers to help them control and study wireworm populations by sending in samples of local specimens. Since the ban of Lindane – an insecticide that kept wireworm levels low for several decades – Dr.

Mountain View County's agricultural service board has approved grant funding for a number of community groups and organizations.

The Mountain View County agricultural service board has been given an update on a proposal to create a new rural commercial district designation in the municipality's land use legislation.

An all-councillor open house being held by Mountain View County this week is an attempt, in part, to improve communication and dialogue with ratepayers, says Reeve Bruce Beattie.

Despite assertions from the federal government that it is doing everything it can to ensure producers' grain makes it to market, one group representing the country's grain producers says it could be doing more.

With traffic on area highways expected to increase markedly over the coming weeks and months as more drivers travel in the region for spring and summertime activities, police are hoping those same drivers will keep the speeds down, says Sundre RCMP C

“Send a farmer to Ottawa and get back a politician” is a time-honoured piece of Western Canadian common sense born of rueful experience.

Overland flooding across Mountain View and Red Deer counties had forced the closure of numerous roads as of press time Friday.

The Chinook's Edge School Division has sent a letter to Transport Canada asking if safety regulations are in place that limit the amount of time trains can remain stationary at railway crossings.