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Mountain View County will spend more than $200,000 to start construction on a berm that will extend more than four kilometres across the north bank of a new channel of the Red Deer River upstream of Sundre, council voted last week.

The provincial Progressive Conservative party is in good hands, says the outgoing premier of the province.Ed Stelmach made the statements on Wednesday during a visit to open the new Holy Trinity School in Olds.

More than 100 friends, family members and well wishers attended a benefit fundraiser on Sept. 17 for the Mountain View County family who lost their rural mobile home in a wind-aided fire earlier in the month.

The current weather in Mountain View County is making for a good harvest season, say area agriculture officials.ìThis warm, sunny weather is just perfect for harvest,î said Bill Sheehan, chair of the county's Ag Services Board.

New amendments are being brought forward to the Intermunicipal Development Plan for Red Deer County and the City of Red Deer that will slow the process of annexing land to the city.

Mountain View County council has directed administration to look at selling the Westward Ho Campground in October 2013.And with the five-year operating contract set to expire Dec.

When Raymond Dodd was a boy he and his brothers would mischievously sneak into the old grain elevator on their home property at the famed Reed Ranch.

Mountain View County has taken the first step toward constructing a berm system that will protect downstream properties after the Red Deer River changed course in early summer.On Sept.

A two-vehicle collision on Hwy. 27 claimed the life of a retired businessman from the Bergen area.

Mountain View County councillors voted last week to cancel the 2011 property taxes for the owners of The Bergen Store after hearing how the couple has struggled to deal with flooding and sewage issues since buying the property in November 2007.