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Jeff Holmes, Mountain View County's manager of parks and agricultural services, has been named interim director of legislative and community services.

Thirty people from Knee Hill Valley and surrounding areas showed up to a town hall meeting for a chance to talk face to face with Red Deer County officials.Div. 4 Coun. David Hoar led the meeting while Div. 6 Coun.

Trustees for the Chinook's Edge School Division are scheduled to consider a remuneration review of their compensation at a March board meeting following a presentation by two public members of the audit committee that was charged to look at the revie

One year removed from dire predictions about soil moisture conditions, provincial experts are sounding a much more even tone for this year based on last year's dramatic recovery.

Mountain View County will apply with the MD of Bighorn for a provincial resource road grant to repave Burnt Timber Road, council's policies and priorities committee voted last week.

The federal standing committee on Agriculture and Agrifood toured Olds last week as part of an examination of the bio-tech industry and the benefits to agriculture.

With most bears spending their time hibernating at this time of year, human-bear encounters in West Central Alberta are rare during the late winter and early spring season.

Four gun ranges are among a handful of properties in Mountain View County that will have to apply at least every three years to maintain their tax-exempt status under a new policy approved last week by council's policies and priorities committee.

The new Mount View Lodge in Olds is on schedule to meet its targeted completion date at the end of the month, the seniors' housing authority's interim CAO said last week.

The Plasco meeting scheduled for Jan. 28 at the Red Deer County office was cancelled as the Central Waste Management Commission waits on a decision from the federal government regarding funding for the proposed garbage gasification plant.