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Mount St. Francis Retreat Centre plans to celebrate the Christmas season with their 16th annual Joy of Greccio Christmas pageant on Dec. 11.

“We are looking forward to welcoming everyone back [for the event] and we’re hoping everybody enjoys the Christmas spirit that we’re trying to project,” she said, adding the event will mark the third weekend of Christmas-themed events in the Creek.

A local and his self-described yokels are offering up a unique way to not only buy some quality meat, produce, and crafts just in time for Christmas, but a way to feel good about donating to those less fortunate at the same time.

Bow Valley Chorus invites Cochrane on the evening of Dec. 10 to experience George Fredrick Handel's Messiah this holiday season.

In a heart-breaking moment of Déja vu, the Cochrane High Cobras' senior girls' volleyball team suffered a nail-biting defeat in the gold-medal match at provincials, losing 19-17 in the third set to St. John Paul II on Nov. 26.

The family-friendly event hopes to encapsulate the holiday season through an outdoor European Christmas village with over 80 vendors selling handmade stocking stuffers alongside traditional European-themed food and drink.

After a Judicial Interim Release hearing, Smale was remanded into custody, and is set to appear in Cochrane Provincial Court this morning.

What Purdy hopes audience members will take away from his Dec. 6 talk is his immense gratitude for Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park, which he likened to a nearby natural oasis from Calgary's urban sprawl.

Road construction activity on Highway 1A in Cochrane came mostly to a close as the snow flew recently, marking the end of the 2022 construction season.

A rendition of the C.S. Lewis fantasy novel The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, at Bow Valley Church, on Dec 2 to 4, will send Cochrane's theatre lovers to the fantasy realm of Narnia with proceeds supporting local charities.