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Mountain View County council has voted to keep the amount paid to landowners for land purchased for county projects unchanged in 2016. The motion on the landowner payment schedule came during council's recent regularly scheduled council meeting.

Fish and Wildlife officials want people in Mountain View County to exercise caution following an unusual number of recent cougar attacks on pets and livestock.

The provincial government's decision to allow agricultural service boards to provide input into Bill 6 regulations is a positive move, says Al Kemmere, a Mountain View County councillor and president of the Alberta Association of Municipal Districts

Farms and ranches can be safe places to work as long as everyone keeps up to date on their respective safety training, says Kenda Lubeck, farm safety coordinator with Alberta Agriculture and Forestry.

It would be a sorry state indeed to have no sister. I have been blessed with two. We are each spaced about 1 1/2 years apart. There were two brothers ahead, one behind.

Students approaching their cherished graduation with a dream of being dressed picture perfect but facing financial challenges are being offered a chance to have their special shining moment through the first-ever Gowns for Grads Gala.

With the price of oil remaining low — it hit its lowest point in 11 years last week — the year ahead is not going to be an easy one for the Sundre Petroleum Operators Group (SPOG), said its executive director.

The trunk is not overly large, being only 29 inches at its highest point. The exterior is tin-covered, although the metal has darkened to a mottled brown. There are two rows of wooden slats around the sides, five on the rounded top.

Construction on Mountain View County's new $2.

Calls for service to the Mountain View County operational services department were down markedly in 2015 compared with 2014, the policies and priorities committee heard during its recent regularly scheduled meeting.