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PHOTO: The magic of Halloween

PHOTO: The magic of Halloween

Students doing well in Chinook's Edge

Students doing well in Chinook's Edge

The Chinook’s Edge School Division issued the following release Wednesday: The work underway in schools across Chinook’s Edge is continuing to create an upward trend in several measures, according to the recently-released Accountability Pillar report
Rural Municipalities of Alberta responds to budget

Rural Municipalities of Alberta responds to budget

Representing 69 rural municipalities, the Rural Municipalities of Alberta (RMA) association has released the following comments on the 2019-20 provincial budget: “The RMA recognizes the importance of fiscal prudence in these challenging economic time
Election underlines need to diversify economy

Election underlines need to diversify economy

The result of the Oct.
Radon Awareness and Testing Act remains on the shelf

Radon Awareness and Testing Act remains on the shelf

A bill to establish a legal framework making radon testing mandatory in certain cases continues to collect dust on the shelf.
Wexit not the answer chamber president says

Wexit not the answer chamber president says

Olds & District Chamber of Commerce president Mark Johnson understands and sympathizes with Albertans who support "wexit," the idea of Alberta separating from the rest of Canada, but he says that's just not practical.
OC students will have to live with tuition hikes

OC students will have to live with tuition hikes

As of Friday, Angela White, president of the Students' Association of Olds College, did not know for sure how much tuition could rise at that facility in the wake of the Oct. 24 provincial budget.
Overall, chamber president likes provincial budget

Overall, chamber president likes provincial budget

Olds & District Chamber of Commerce president Mark Johnson says the provincial government's budget, released Thursday, is not as harsh as it could have been, and he believes it's short-term pain for long-term gain.
Beattie back as county reeve

Beattie back as county reeve

Bruce Beattie has been re-elected by his fellow Mountain View County councillors to serve as the municipality’s reeve for another year. The election came during the county’s annual organizational meeting in council chambers on Oct. 23. Counc.
Riding arenas permit OK’d

Riding arenas permit OK’d

The Mountain View County municipal planning commission has OK’d a development permit for an existing riding arena and for a proposed second riding arena on a rural property in the Dogpound rural neighbourhood in Division 1.
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