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Four Chinook's Edge School Division teachers have been selected as semifinalists for Alberta's Excellence in Teaching awards that will be handed out after the May long weekend.

A 51-year-old man charged after RCMP found hundreds of marijuana plants growing on Crown land outside Sundre in June 2011 will spend the next nine months under 24-hour house arrest.

An upcoming event in Sylvan Lake is striving to attract veterans from all over Central Alberta.

These days, Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills MLA Bruce Rowe is spending his time commuting to Edmonton for information sessions and Wildrose meetings.Rowe, the former Beiseker mayor, was elected on April 23 with 57 per cent of the votes.

Plans are in motion to place a moratorium on bare first parcel subdivisions in Red Deer County.

More than 140 area residents participated in the 10th annual Hike for Hospice, which was held in Olds on May 6.The hike ended up raising more than $25,000 for the Olds and District Hospice Society.“I am in a stunned mode.

A 57-year-old woman charged after police seized more than 2,100 marijuana plants worth an estimated $2.6 million from a Sundre property last July is going to trial.

Mountain View County could face legal action if council does not allow the previously approved plans for Netook Crossing to go ahead, developers for the Highway 2/27 project warned at council's policies and priorities committee meeting last Wednesday

Mountain View County council has set Sept. 21 as the sale date on properties listed for back taxes.Fourteen properties were listed for tax sale as of May 2, corporate services director Greg Wiens told council that day at its regular meeting.

Council's plans to create an Economic Growth Corridor in Mountain View County will undermine its No.