Olds News

Bowden council is again looking at adjusting the rates the Town of Bowden charges for use of its community bus . Bowden’s Community Bus Committee forwarded two rate changes it had approved at its Oct.

The sale of the Olds Banner Pharmacaps plant closed on Oct. 31 and the plant’s new owner, Calgary’s Advanced Orthomolecular Research (AOR) began bringing the plant back online on Nov. 4.

The building at 5010-50 Ave. that was home to the former Armstrong Bakery and now houses the Different Strokes art gallery was designated as a municipal historic resource by town council during its Oct. 28 meeting.

The Town of Olds is hoping to get the 50-kilometre-per-hour speed limit in the northbound lane of Highway 2A near Olds High School extended about 300 metres farther south to the Olds cemetery.

The man who helmed O-NET while the community-owned, community-wide fibre-optic network was just getting off the ground has resigned.

The owners of a newly opened sports bar in Olds where female servers work in bikinis are asking the community to check the establishment out before forming any opinions.

Despite treacherous road conditions, the 280 people who attended the Olds Rotary Club's annual Harvest Ball on Nov. 2 managed to raise more cash for the club's projects than last year's event, which brought in $75,000.

Some drivers heading east or westbound on Highway 27 have likely experienced a little confusion when approaching the roadway's intersection with Highway 2A in the last few months.

Just more than 88 per cent of Grade 12 students at Olds High School graduated in 2012-13. Chinook's Edge School Division released the high school completion rate results last week. The division as a whole had a 78.

Signage installed roughly three years ago that decreased the speed limit to 20 kilometres per hour on Westview Drive near its intersection with 15 Avenue in Bowden will be removed. Bowden council voted unanimously at its Oct.