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Residents are lacing up their shoes and taking to the lanes in support of local mentoring programs. The Okotoks Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) is hosting it s annual – and only – fundraiser, Bowl for Kids Sake at Millennium Lanes on Mar.

Four local siblings were shocked to learn last year’s lemons produced sweet results. When Drayvin, Mercedes, Deklun and Maydin Whitney were called to the front of the St. Mary’s School Lemonade Day assembly on Feb.

The Tour of Alberta won’t be making a pit stop in Okotoks this year. Town council turned down a request from organizers of the six-day, world-class cycling event for Okotoks to be a start location for one leg of the event later this year on Feb. 22.

A teen reported missing Tuesday morning has been found. Okotoks RCMP released a brief press release on Wednesday morning saying 13-year-old Jessie Thew has been located. Thew was discovered missing on the morning of Feb.

Okotoks RCMP have appealed for public assistance to locate a missing 13-year-old female. Jessie Thew, who is believed to have left her rural residence near Okotoks on the night of Feb. 23 to meet friends, was discovered missing on the morning of Feb.

Before teaching third grade at St. Mary's School in Okotoks, Terry Siqueira wore several hats, starting out teaching high school in the public school system before moving into the Christ the Redeemer division when it was created in the early '90s.

An elementary school principal says drivers need to slow down in school zones after one of his students was struck by a vehicle in a crosswalk.

A close friend of a former Okotoks teacher convicted of sexually assaulting students at an international Indonesian school was devastated to find out he may be heading back to jail in that country after an eight-month reprieve.

Cardiovascular health as been at the heart of people’s minds over the past four weeks.

A slumping economy in 2015 did not slow down the number of businesses opening in Okotoks. The number of business licenses issued by the Town of Okotoks rose by 2.8 per cent in 2015, over the previous year.