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Chairs and superintendents of Central Alberta school boards met with Jeff Johnson, the new minister of education, on June 19 in Red Deer to discuss various issues, including the erosion of funding for inclusive education.

Annexation to the Town of Olds would be a better option than remaining part of Mountain View County under the proposed new Municipal Development Plan, the developers of Netook Crossing told council last week.

Most of Gleniffer Lake was reopened to the public over the Canada Day long weekend.According to a June 28 press release from Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resources Development, most of the lake would be reopened for recreational use.

The Energy Resources Conservation Board says unofficial reports of an alleged new leak into the Red Deer River are not true.“There's been no new leak. Period,” said ERCB spokesman Bob Curran.

Celtic music fans can handle the rain, organizers learned during the annual Water Valley Traditional Celtic Folk Music Festival on June 23.

The first road signs targeting drunk drivers from a new traffic safety initiative have been installed in Mountain View County.

A dispute between Mountain View County and its urban neighbours over the proposed new Municipal Development Plan was averted after last-minute negotiations.

The oil spill is contained and cleanup efforts continue in the aftermath of a leak that caused between 1,000 and 3,000 barrels of light sour crude oil to flow into the Red Deer River near Sundre.The leak was detected in the evening of June 7.

The municipal planning commission approved a height relaxation from 7 to 7.3 metres for a building west of the City of Red Deer during a meeting June 5, despite protests from neighbours that the building would be “too enormous.

When Jo Turley was growing up in rural Quebec she found a young falcon. It ignited a keen interest in the sport of falconry, the art form of hunting with or training birds of prey.In 1999 she joined the Alberta Falconry Club.