Olds News

Town council has passed the East Olds Area Redevelopment Plan (ARP) -- after a public consultation process that's taken more than two years. The plan was approved Oct. 14.

An Olds resident has received a Heritage Awareness Award. Jonathan Koch received the award Thursday night (Oct. 16) for his work with Forgottenalberta.com. The award was presented during the Alberta Historical Resources Foundation (AHRF) Forum and Awards in Red Deer.

Mountain View County has served notice it will not renew a cost-sharing agreement for public services with the Town of Olds once it expires in 2016. County reeve Bruce Beattie wrote in a letter to the town dated Sept.

Those who received awards during the annual Olds and District Chamber of Commerce Business Awards Banquet are highly deserving, presenters say.

Charges have been laid in regard to an incident in which $25,000 worth of damage was done to an Olds business. Boyd Raymond Fleming has been charged with break and enter and mischief.

Olds RCMP are asking for your help to identifying the suspect in a theft that occurred in Olds recently. The man left the store area in a yellow Dodge Dakota Sport with rust patches on the passenger side of the truck.

Six businesses or organizations and one youth received awards during the annual Olds and District Chamber of Commerce Business Awards Banquet at the Olds College Alumni Centre Thursday night (Oct. 16).

RCMP expect a suspect alleged to have caused roughly $25,000 worth of damage to an Olds business to be charged this Friday (Oct. 17) with break and enter and mischief. Olds RCMP Cpl.

A dinner in Olds raised $10,000 for Habitat for Humanity. The supper, hosted by Boston Pizza in Olds on Oct. 6 was a sell-out. Forty tickets to the five-course meal were sold at $125 each.

A project to widen Highway 587 west of Bowden is well underway, and should be completed by Nov. 15, if the weather co-operates, a provincial official says. Jamie Friesen of Alberta Transportation says the approximately $5 million project began Oct.