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Esther Sieben, who coaches Cochrane's senior girls' volleyball team, said the zones tourney produced her squad's best performances yet this season.

Santa Claus is coming to town. When the CP Rail Holiday train chugs into downtown Cochrane on Dec. 13, Santa will be there to greet it. The CP Holiday Train is back for its 24th year of supporting food banks across Canada and the U.S.

“It’s about balancing our obligations,” stated Wright. “Protecting residents, but identifying we do need gravel. Gravel is a commodity we all have to have. It’s our roads, it’s our homes – it’s not about saying ‘No’ to gravel. I want to make that clear.” 

Four Cubs Children's Boutique is partnering with Helping Families Handle Cancer ahead of the holiday season to help raise money for families fighting childhood cancer through their second annual Santa Photos for a Cause.

The Cochrane Ecological Institute is once again holding its biggest (and most fun) fundraiser of the year – the annual Christmas Tree Event – on Dec. 3 and 4 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

“This is a rarity,” Riemann said at the meeting. “We typically do not sell topsoil out of our pits because that is used for our reclamation of the gravel pits as we continue to close out our pits.”

As Cochrane town council sat down to prepare to start discussing the municipality’s 2023 to 2025 Draft Budget in earnest this week, Mayor Jeff Genung kicked things off with a seasonal reference.

“I know tax increases are never an easy decision for council, but we are providing the best advice we can if we want to continue the existing service levels we have,” Robinson told council.

A recently approved private inpatient/outpatient addictions and mental health counselling centre in Springbank has prompted calls from local community association members for changes at Rocky View County to fill “process gaps” in its deve