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Cochrane and Area Humane Society and the Nan Boothby Memorial Library teamed up to kick-start a new reading program with furry friends. Paws and Tales will have a preview of what their program entails on Oct. 29 from 5:30-6 p.m. at the library.

The annual Springbank Christmas market features more than 50 vendors this year, and organizers say there is a good number from Cochrane attending.

Despite the divided opinion of Cochrane town council members, the Southbow Landing Neighbourhood plan has finally been approved after months of discussion, with four councillors approving the plan and three opposed at the Oct. 26 council meeting.

Fifty years ago next week, my wife Mary Anna and I moved to Morley, the heart of the Stoney Nakoda First Nation.

Get ready to spend a night in the 1950’s. The Bragg Creek Community Centre is hosting a throwback night out, taking guests back to ’50s on Nov 6.

There’s only three days left to get your spook on at the “Key to Blood Manor” at Spray Lake Sawmills Family Sports Centre.

In a move praised by the City of Calgary but drawing ire of local landowners and county officials, the provincial government announced plans to move forward on the Springbank Dry Dam project. On Oct.

The annual Cochrane Christmas Craft Market will be “bigger and better” this year according to organizers. “We are bigger and better than we have ever been,” said organizer Maria Berjian.

Banff-Airdrie New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate Joanne Boissonneault was hopeful heading into the Oct. 19 federal election.

As part of a series of conservation projects in the Bow River Watershed, volunteers from the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) were busy planting hundreds of willows just north of the Big Hill Springs Provincial Park.