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DIDSBURY - A bylaw that would have forced Didsbury residents with access to the town water system to decommission their water wells and use town water was defeated by council in the regular meeting on Jan. 24.

Perhaps it doesn't matter who leads Alberta's minor parties to anyone except the partisan devotees of the persuasions that make up the membership.

DIDSBURY - Construction of the $500,000 heliport upgrade at the Didsbury Hospital has been completed although Alberta Health Services (AHS) is still awaiting certification from Transport Canada.

The Mountain View County agricultural service board has come out in support of three resolutions set to come before the 72nd annual provincial agricultural service board conference. The move came during the board's Jan.

DIDSBURY - A provincial group that helps attract doctors to the rural areas of Alberta is expanding.

DIDSBURY - At the regular meeting on Jan. 10, council defeated a land use bylaw amendment (Bylaw 2017-01) for property at 3001 23rd St. in Didsbury. The bylaw would have redesignated 19.

Area MLA Jason Nixon hopes that a new ministerial panel formed to examine the province's child intervention system and make recommendations for improvements will lead to a better overall care for children and their families.

The contractor conducting the bridge upgrade over the Dog Pound Creek on Highway 27 between Sundre and Olds has completed a big step in the process, installing massive steel girders over the new section over the past few weeks, officials said.

Mountain View County's northern pocket gopher control program is now open to youths only. The county's agricultural service board passed a motion at its recent regularly scheduled meeting regarding the program.

Come over and play some Cards Against Humanity, someone asked me the other day. Well OK, I don't know many people in town, so why not? I'm usually for humanity, but I'm up for anything. Socializing is a strange thing.