Olds News

A brazen thief walked away with a 1950s Franka Solida III camera at the NU-2-U Thrift Store last Friday. The camera had been part of a photography display at the front of the store, by the cashier's desk.

Mark Oxer joined the coaching staff at Olds College this month, marking a new beginning for the futsal and soccer programs. Oxer had been pursuing master's studies in coaching at the University of Worcester before taking the job at Olds College.

Surgeries are expected to return to the Innisfail Health and Care Centre this July after the doors of the operating room closed six years ago.

A month after being convicted of second-degree murder in the death of Olds College student Nicholas Baier, Jeffrey Kevin Leinen has launched an appeal of both his conviction and his 14-year prison sentence.

A new venue for bicycle enthusiasts opened up on the weekend, with organizers hoping to capitalize on the central location Olds offers in the province.

The Olds Midget Mustangs blasted the opposition in two games on the weekend, outscoring the Drayton Valley Midget B team 15-2 on Friday at home and then travelling to Stettler where they beat the Midget B team 15-1 in North Central Minor Hockey Assoc

A Bowden man died on the weekend in a head-on collision on Highway 587 just north of Bowden. RCMP said Richard Sorensen, 45, was driving a Dodge Dakota truck westbound on Highway 587 about 3 p.m.

Olds RCMP arrested a 46-year-old Calgary man on charges of fraud under $5,000, two counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking, possession of property obtained through the commission of an offence, and theft of a motor vehicle. On Jan.

Olds Fibre Ltd. hopes to launch O-Net, its fibre-to-the-premise broadband service, in mid-2012.

Olds' first baby of the year, a girl named Dakota Hamm, was born last Tuesday, Jan. 3 at 12:21 a.m. at the Olds Hospital and Care Centre. She weighed six pounds, 14 ounces and already had blond hair.