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The local Cochrane non-profit group Cochrane Society for Housing Options (CSHO) is in the running for a $5,000 grant from CIR Realty’s $20,000 community grant giveaway.

The Nan Boothby Memorial Library has ‘become a victim of Cochrane's success,' according to library board chair Chris Murray. Murray outlined to council Sept.

The streets of Bragg Creek will be lined with scarecrows of all shapes and sizes from Oct. 3 to Nov. 2 for the second annual Bragg Creek Scarecrow Festival.

Science class just got a whole lot better for junior and senior students at St. Timothy High School in Cochrane. The school was one of 14 recipients of Devon Energy Canada’s Science Giants grant designed to inspire more kids to explore science.

There are few better ways to start the day than to have a chat with Calgary musician Oscar Lopez, especially following the cold kickoff to September Cochrane has experienced. “The weather is hot, cold – it doesn’t matter.

Cochrane Alberta Culture Days is gearing up for one of its biggest years yet with three days of activities showcasing arts and culture in the area.

Is your outhouse ready for some pushing, grunting and running? The 14th annual Cochrane Outhouse Races, put on by local retail store Heavenly Outhouse, will hold its 14th race Saturday, Sept. 27 during Alberta Culture Days. Races begin at 10 a.m.

Suffer in silence no more.

There will be plenty of pickin’ and grinnin’ in Cochrane during Alberta Culture Days, as the Nakoda-Cochrane Pickin’ Party Music Jam will be celebrating its 10th anniversary. The party will take place Sept. 27 from 1 - 4 p.m.

The department of waste and recycling for the town will be hosting a series of working sessions to discuss and prepare the Industrial, Commercial and Institutional (ICI) sector for the development of a local ‘ICI waste strategy’ that would align with