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County emergency service officials are giving early high marks to the province's new Alberta Emergency Alert (AEA) system, which is jumping head first into the instantaneous world of social media.

The Alberta Municipal Government Board will hear the appeal for the defeated Elsner subdivision this week after ruling that the case is within its jurisdiction.

A public meeting intended to explain why the Big Prairie Bridge will not be replaced this year was never held ñ and last week Div. 7 Coun. Al Kemmere asked why not.

Mountain View County's planning and development department reversed its position last week on a rezoning application by the sister of Div. 2 Coun. Trish McKean.The application from Nolan and Tamara Ziebarth was to rezone 11.

A two-day festival featuring a mountain man competition and lawn tractor races drew hundreds of people to Water Valley.The annual Water Valley Days was held Aug. 13-14, with a wide variety of activities taking place around the community core.

Gerald Ingeveld, a current David Thompson Health Advisory Council member and former Mountain View County councillor, is encouraging area residents to consider applying to serve on the council.

Mountain View County is looking for some serious money from the province after the Red Deer River southwest of Sundre changed course earlier this year.

Two Akita dogs that attacked a man and woman on a Didsbury-area property last month will be destroyed, Crown prosecutor Dave Burroughs said in Didsbury provincial court Friday.

Red Deer County councillors have stepped into the crease for the Red Deer Rebels' 2013 Memorial Cup bid, approving a financial contribution of $150,000.

A 54-year-old man charged after he put a woman in a headlock during an argument in Cremona almost a year ago has been jailed.