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UPDATE: Cochrane RCMP advise that Serenity Dixon has been located safe and sound, according to an update from the detachment.

What organizers are calling one of the most fun events of the year also happens to be a more important fundraiser than in previous years – it’s the Hair of the Dog night in aid of the Cochrane & Area Humane Society (CAHS) on May 13.

Congratulations to all of our winners in the A-1 Heating & Great West Media 2023 Pick The Winners Hockey Pool.

“It is rewarding to hear the different stories of how attending the online school has positively impacted students’ lives.”

“To effectively clean our roads from curb-to-curb, all vehicles must be removed from the streets,” Hume said. “Residents are asked to relocate their vehicles to driveways, alleys, and parking lots during their neighbourhood sweep.” 

Three Cochrane Cobras football players will don their high-school helmets one last time, as they get set to participate in Football Alberta's annual Senior Bowl.

It’s just a few weeks (fingers crossed) until Cochrane and area gardeners will be putting the snow shovels away for the winter and getting some dirt underneath their fingernails. Hope springs eternal at this time of year.

“The centre of the story is two newspaper people, an experienced hot-shot news reporter and a young woman who wants to get into the business,” Farkas said.

Bragg Creek was bustling on April 21, as hundreds of hungry visitors descended upon the hamlet for the annual 'Taste of Bragg Creek' event. 

Heather Cronyn-Bolton, Battle of the Books organizer and elementary teacher at Cooper’s Crossing School, said the inter-division competition is a fun way to get students to read books they perhaps normally wouldn’t choose to read.