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Mountain View County reeve Bruce Beattie says he expects that more information will be available for consideration when county council revisits a proposed development moratorium for an area of McDougal Flats on Nov. 12.

Mountain View County council continued 2015 budget deliberations at a meeting on Oct. 6, with the county's re-gravelling and chip seal programs on the agenda.

Despite recent calls from the Alberta Liberal education critic Kent Hehr for the government to mandate accommodation for gay-straight alliances in the province's schools, Chinook's Edge School Division (CESD) officials say there is no need for such a

Central Alberta is the farthest behind when it comes to this year's harvest, according to the Alberta Crop Report. The report, issued at the end of September, says only 58 per cent of the crop had been harvested in Central Alberta.

Mountain View County producers are going to take a hit in the wallet this year, according to Kent Clifford, inputs manager at the Richardson Pioneer terminal just outside Olds.

Hunters are being encouraged to help out Mountain View food bank clients this hunting season through the Alberta Hunters Who Care Wild Game Foodbank Donation program.

Mountain View County council has approved plans to upgrade the audiovisual system in council chambers as well as in the Bearberry Room meeting area in the county office. The approval of the upgrade project came during the Oct.

There are now three fish and wildlife officers working in the Sundre and Olds area. Darren McInnes, 44, transferred from Calgary to the Sundre branch in July and is glad to be back in his home territory.

Mountain View County council has approved a number of changes to the Dog Control Bylaw. During the regularly scheduled council meeting on Oct. 8, councillors approved the addition of a definition for off leash dog park.

The Town of Carstairs almost has everything in line for a long-term-planned lagoon expansion, after Mountain View County council approved a land use redesignation for some of the land the town wants to use in the expansion, say officials.