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The Chinook's Edge School Division is vigorously challenging the “tragic loss” of provincial government funding for outreach services to help special needs students in Central Alberta.

Mountain View County's agricultural service board has been updated on some of Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development's plans to help prevent farmed wild boar from escaping confinement.

About 60 Mountain View County ratepayers attended an all-councillor open house in the county council chambers on April 16. The 90-minute meeting saw all seven councillors speak on various topics related to county operations.

Many of the roadways closed due to overland flooding in Mountain View (MVC) and Red Deer counties last week have now reopened – although some in MVC remained closed at press time Thursday.

Mountain View County council recently threw its support behind the recently formed Legacy Land Trust Society. At council's recent meeting councillors agreed that the county would support the society in its general aims.

Provincial officials are calling on area crop producers to help them control and study wireworm populations by sending in samples of local specimens. Since the ban of Lindane – an insecticide that kept wireworm levels low for several decades – Dr.

Mountain View County's agricultural service board has approved grant funding for a number of community groups and organizations.

The Mountain View County agricultural service board has been given an update on a proposal to create a new rural commercial district designation in the municipality's land use legislation.

An all-councillor open house being held by Mountain View County this week is an attempt, in part, to improve communication and dialogue with ratepayers, says Reeve Bruce Beattie.

Despite assertions from the federal government that it is doing everything it can to ensure producers' grain makes it to market, one group representing the country's grain producers says it could be doing more.