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Town council voted 6-1 in favour of a sunshine list to create wage transparency for town staff. The move to adopt measures from the Public Sector Transparency Act was brought forward by Coun. Alex Reed.

Couns. Morgan Nagel and Alex Reed's joint motion to name Cochrane's major bridge project Veteran's Bridge was voted down by council in a 5-2 vote on Monday night.

The new breakfast program at RancheView School has taken off since its start up in January and by its second week it went from 14 students to more than 100 utilizing its service.

Students and staff are prepping for a trip of a lifetime to Japan this spring. On March 24, 67 students and eight staff members of Bow Valley High School (BVHS) will be landing in Tokyo for a two-week immersive education experience.

Cochrane is officially looking to get smarter, after council endorsed its support for a Smart Cities Challenge application to enter the town into contention for some serious grant dollars.

“There are great pictures all around us if we just take the time to look,” said Jack Tennant, former Cochrane Eagle publisher and lifelong black and white film photographer.

With the help of Stoney Nakoda Nation members, students at Manachaban School will now don a new, more representative logo replacing the original – which was dubbed offensive. During a school assembly on Jan.

Knowing your roots means understanding the world around you, according to Friday night’s IDEAS speaker. Fred Stenson, a local award-winning author of Western Alberta-themed novels, spoke to an audience of nearly 100 Cochranites Jan.

Cochrane RCMP assisted the Canmore RCMP with the response of a stolen vehicle from Exshaw in the late morning of Jan. 11, which resulted in a foot chase. After attempts were made by police to stop a vehicle, the driver fled.

Cochrane was more than just a face in the crowd at the 2018 Consumer Technology Association Conference.