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Carl Sagan, Frank Drake, Enrico Fermi, Donald Brownlee and Peter Ward.

While summer weather has been a mixed bag this year, it is the first full season for one of Cochrane’s newest warm weather amenities: the splash pad at Spray Lake Sawmills Family Sports Centre.

Perhaps fittingly appropriate, the legalization of cannabis finished its lackadaisical trip through the House of Commons last week.

The first Catholic School in Alberta was established in 1842, a continuation of a history of publicly-funded religious schools that began during colonization in the early 1600s.

Forty per cent. What is significant about the number? The answer: it is within one or two percentage points of the popular votes that have decided all but three of the most recent elections held at the provincial, territorial or federal levels.

Every year people wage war on dandelions. When spring arrives, municipalities unleash the herbicides and residents bring the mowers and weed whackers to bear on the pesky plants.

People on the western edge of Cochrane were a bit nervous last week when a fire broke out on land just outside of town. Another near Bragg Creek had residents on evacuation alert.

Many have heard the story of the five-year-old in Britain who was fined nearly CAD$200 for a lemonade stand that she was operating without a permit.

Nothing gets Cochrane in a bigger tizzy than talking about anything to do with traffic.

As the United Conservative Party makes strides toward hitting the ballot for the 2019 provincial election, its weekend founding policy convention set the stage for what the party will stand for.