Olds News

Starting this July, 800 residences will be chosen to participate in the town's single-stream recycling pilot project.

Tracks Pub was packed last Saturday with over 100 revellers attending the Uptowne Fashion Show.

Fair Trade Fortnight kicked off last week with a presentation of the documentary The Fair Trade. It will continue this week with activities planned at Health Street, Cocoa Tree Bake Shoppe, and Bean Brokers.

Town of Olds council pondered the pros and cons of having Olds become a city at its policies and priorities meeting on April 16.

Olds RCMP seeks the public's assistance to solve a crime. Between the hours of 9:30 p.m. on April 8 and 5:30 a.m. on April 9, there was a break and enter at the Starlight Diner in Bowden.

A handful of residents attended an open house Tuesday at the Bowden Friendship Centre to give their feedback on the first draft of a revised Land Use Bylaw and Municipal Development Plan for the town.

Olds residents will get a 2.9 per cent tax rate increase in 2012. Town of Olds council had originally planned to increase last year's rate by 3.4 per cent in December.

When reFind owner Kristin Allan heard about the Olds Historical Society's financial troubles last December, she immediately started planning a fundraiser with Gotcha Jeans owner Mike Fix.

The sentencing of a 20-year-old Olds man charged after a 62-year-old woman was killed in a two-vehicle crash on the QE II last October has been delayed. The accused's sentencing hearing before Judge P.

An Olds suspect learned the hard way that attempting to evade the police is never a good choice. On April 17, at approximately 10:20 p.m.