Opinion

In keeping with all the Christmas decorations folks are setting up around Cochrane lately, Jack Frost was right in the spirit of things with his frosty artistry on our kitchen window the other day.

It's become almost an annual tradition at the Rocky View Weekly to do a story on the Alberta Institute for Wildlife Conservation (AIWC) in early December, to help promote the Madden-based animal hospital's yearly Give the Gift of Saving Wildl

Dear editor, Gas price gouging has to end. The gasoline marketers are gouging Cochranites and visitors to our community. The day I wrote this letter, fuel at Costco in southwest Calgary (only 35 kilometres away from Cochrane) was $1.

I’ve long been a fan of Cochrane artist Marla Blackwell’s depictions of our natural surroundings. But she really outdid herself in one of her shows I visited recently in Calgary.

Despite the stress, the holidays do bring many enjoyable aspects, one of which is the opportunity to partake in the many local community events that pop up at this time of year.

Dear editor, I would like to draw attention to a serious safety concern on Highway 1A west of Cochrane.

Cochrane Eagle columnist Martin Parnell has some conflicting loyalties as he tunes into this year's FIFA World Cup, with hopes of success for England, Canada, and Wales.

A record-breaking six feet of snow in Buffalo, N.Y., falling last weekend? Wow! And we here in Cochrane grumble when we have to brush just six inches of snow off our car in the morning.

Most people have been so eager to put the COVID-19 pandemic in the rear-view mirror that it's become commonplace to act like it never happened in the first place.

Our long-time coffee companion Mike MacDonald was in town the other day and joined me for cups of memory together. I knew I was in for a real treat the moment he started telling me about a visionary experience he’d had in southern Mexico.