Opinion

This is an exciting time in Cochrane, as we have just started the final stages of design and the fundraising kickoff to our new aquatic and curling centre.

Cochrane’s youngest member of council is certainly not shy about looking like a lone wolf. Councillor Morgan Nagel has made a habit of voting on the opposite side of several issues council has faced since the Oct.

It’s hard to believe it’s already been a year since I made the best decision of my career to date.

Few people have so impressed me with their ways of enlarging the lives of others as Mike Bigland. Mike, the ever-affable proprietor of Cochrane A&W, passed away on Apr. 21 after a long fight with cancer.

With Cochrane’s public school students enjoying their third vacation since the Christmas holidays, questions of the quality of education our next generation is receiving is prevalent on the minds of many parents in Cochrane, Alberta and throughout ou

This is the time of year when footing management for horses becomes a real challenge. In a given day, we can have snow, melting, rainfall, ground thawing and more melting.

We in Cochrane have some of the finest baristas in the entire world serving us our daily brew.

First the town, then the world. Increasingly, Cochrane’s athletes and coaches are departing the realm of small-town sports for the much larger theatre of global competition.

Winter is hopefully coming to an end in Cochrane and summer is thankfully just around the corner (though that may be hard to grasp at this moment), which means a new slew of athletics will be offered in the community.

“Let the crocuses come forth,” I pleaded at the end of last week’s column on our long winter. That hope-filled spring flower provides a perfect opener to this week’s column about the greatest story ever told.