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If luging is big business among powerhouse European nations, it's more of a cottage industry in Cochrane.

Students at St. Timothy High School gathered Feb. 7 to honour an Olympian with a Cochrane connection. Alex Green, wrestling coach and math teacher at St. Tim’s, has bragging rights this Sochi season, as his brother is a competing biathlete.

UPDATED: One person is dead following a two-vehicle collision on Highway 22, approximately two kilometres south of Cochrane.

Cochrane Lions Football provided council with an update on its plans to construct an outdoor turf field, and was granted $500,000 from the town to move forward on the project.

Cochrane community peace officers are encouraging off-leash dog park users to be responsible for their animals following a scuffle that left one dog with a puncture in its side.

A group of students from Cochrane High School (CHS) will be spending the next four months getting their hands dirty with DNA. Thirteen students are competing as part of the school’s first International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) team.

The Boys and Girls Club of Cochrane and Area (BGCCA) is looking for high school recruits for their Rogers Raising the Grade program. The educational afterschool program is geared towards youth in Grades 9-12.

Bragg Creek resident Fiona Garforth-Bles will have the adventure of her lifetime sailing in a challenging race and raising money for cancer research.

There’s the time he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in a matter of hours. And who could forget the time he ran 250 marathons in a single year. And now Martin Parnell is at it again, travelling to England for his latest quest: Rotary Coastal Quest 630.

Police have their eyes peeled for a young man after a Cochrane resident reported an attempted vehicle theft on West Terrace Crescent. On the morning of Feb. 12, a lone male was seen trying to gain entry to a vehicle in the West Valley community.