Local News

With another tax season coming up, taxpayers have to be more aware than ever about scammers. The latest scam making the rounds involves a person calling residents, claiming to be with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA).

There is less than a week left to buy tickets for the Cochrane Pregnancy Care Centre’s (CPCC) biggest fundraiser of the year, the annual banquet. Tickets for the banquet will be sold until Feb.

If you have ever visited Guy’s Café & Bakery, you might have noticed the consistently changing photography hanging on the wall – what you might not have known is all the photos are taken by local residents.

Cochrane’s Old Town Hall site sold on Feb. 22 for $2.75 million to La Vita Land Inc., with plans to redevelop the site into a mixed-use space.

A look at the bylaws addressed and/or passed by Cochrane town council at the meeting on Feb. 22: Passing of this bylaw means a portion of First Avenue would be closed which will facilitate the redevelopment of the Old Town Hall site.

One year and a life-threatening blood clot later, Martin Parnell finally delivered the keynote speech he never had the chance to. In February of 2015, Parnell flew out to Winnipeg to speak at the Recreation Connections Manitoba conference.

The festival continues and will be just as big as other years, according to organizers. The 9th annual WinterFest will kick off Feb.

Knockout games are always the toughest. The Cochrane Generals found that out the hard way as they closed their HJHL Southern Division semi-finals matchup against Strathmore Wheatland Kings with an overtime 5-4 win to sweep the series in four games.

The Town of Cochrane recently received multiple Alberta Community Partnership Grant applications that were addressed at council’s regularly scheduled meeting Feb. 22.

Cochrane town council has taken a stand against garburators. The council received a report from Miles Chester with the Cochrane Environmental Committee (CEC) on Feb. 22 regarding the use of garburators to dispose of organic waste.