Local News

An installation blitz of communication towers across rural Alberta to deliver broadband Internet service hit a snag at Mountain View County's planning commission meeting on July 7.

About 1,930 kilograms of agricultural plastics were collected for recycling during the one-day Ag Plastics Round-Up held Saturday, July 9 at the Sundre Waste Transfer Station.

During a private meeting with council on May 11, CAO Tony Martens cleared the planning department and its former director of blame for the survey-question kerfuffle raised by Reeve Paddy Munro in an article that had appeared the previous day in the G

In the span of one month, 100,000 pounds of marble that was unloaded at Red Deer College on Friday will be transformed into ìmonumentalî works of art by seven world-renowned sculptors.

A memo to the CAO written by former Mountain View County planning director Diana Hawryluk reveals the strained relationship that existed between her and Reeve Paddy Munro in the weeks before her ìmutual parting of waysî with the county.

The public hearing on a proposal to rezone 88 acres west of Sundre for a 177-unit recreational vehicle campground has been put on hold until Sept. 7.

Mountain View County's municipal planning commission has approved a development permit to allow for the relocation of an established West Country kennel.

A 30-year-old drunk driver stopped near Olds in February 2010 has been jailed.The accused pleaded guilty in Didsbury provincial court on July 11 to a charge of driving with a blood-alcohol level greater than 80 mg per cent.

A group of Red Deer County landowners has been recognized for its progressive environmental work. Residents participating in Off the Creek, a green initiative through the county, have received a 2011 Emerald Award.

The Water Valley Campground was expected to be ready last Friday to meet its targeted reopening date, Mountain View County administration said last week.