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About 150 people attended the Mountain View County all-candidates forum in Olds on Oct. 7, with the six challengers for three division seats outlining their respective positions and answering questions from audience members.

Many years ago a vacationing couple from British Columbia stopped at the Elnora Public Library wanting information about another locale. The couple, Bob and Shirley Orrick, was asked if they had read, Stop the Car! Discovering Central Alberta.

Mountain View County should develop its own public interest disclosure legislation, sometimes known as whistleblower legislation, says Reeve Bruce Beattie.

The Mountain View County councillors have had a first look at a proposed draft 2014 budget, which was presented at the Oct. 2 policies and priorities committee meeting.

The catastrophic flooding that struck parts of Central Alberta in June revealed the true power of how information could be shared quickly and across a large geographic area using social media and other online tools during a crisis.

October is National Child Abuse Awareness Month and rural Albertans are reminded to watch for signs of child abuse.

A consultant that looked at the condition of a paved county road west of Didsbury has recommended that the roadway be completely rebuilt, at a cost of more than $9 million. The report and findings of the Road West Engineering Ltd. survey of Rge. Rd.

Mountain View County council has carried a motion to re-designate 160 acres of land, located west of Didsbury, from agricultural district to institutional, educational and cultural district, in accordance with the land use bylaw.

A new national code for the care and handling of equines is good news for all equine owners and caregivers, say officials.

Having optimal weather conditions in the last weeks of summer and first week of autumn has led to high yields for some of the first crops harvested in Red Deer and Mountain View counties this season.