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Sundre-area resident Jack Morgan got the royal treatment after he showed up at the Mountain View County building last Wednesday to pay his property taxes.

Red Deer County has been deemed eligible for disaster assistance due to a severe windstorm on July 7 that produced three tornadoes in the region.

The official tasked with ensuring Chinook's Edge School Division schools are prepared for the worst said last week's lockdown of three Innisfail schools went exactly as planned.

Whacking the fracking operations in Mountain View County for damage to roads and other county infrastructure will not be as easy as imposing a new tax on wells, council learned at last Wednesday's meeting.

Red Deer County council has agreed to help float the Westerner Exposition Association's project, but not with as much money as requested.

The Red Deer Catholic School Division has experienced a preliminary 5.4 per cent increase in enrolment from the end of the 2010-11, the board of trustees heard at its Sept. 6 meeting.

Mountain View County has shelved a proposed business licence but will review the decision early in 2012, council's policies and priorities committee recommended at its Aug. 24 meeting.

The Energy Resources Conservation Board is currently reviewing all its regulations in light of new extraction technology and will make an important announcement soon on the disclosure of chemicals used in the hydraulic fracturing process, an ERCB off

Like many of the 75 people who attended Interior Heavy Equipment Operator School's (IHES) inaugural open house last week, Michael Moffat came looking for a change.

The provincial government was advising people last week to take precautions at Pine Lake after the presence of blue-green algae was discovered.