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A group of Okotoks residents is proposing the new 32 Street bridge be named McAlpine Crossing in honour of the town’s former mayor.

Thieves targeted a downtown Okotoks business earlier this month making off with $20,000 in expensive brand name jeans. Sometime overnight between Jan.

Workers are back on the job to complete the $4.4-million modernization at Ecole Percy Pegler School one month after the original contractor was deemed in default of its contract with the Foothills School Division.

How many pennies have you got in your pocket? Many Canadians have tons of the little copper coins hanging about, but they could soon become worthless as the Senate finance committee has considered eliminating pennies from circulation.

The Okotoks and District Chamber of Commerce wants the town’s business community to have a stronger voice when it comes to deciding its future.

The University of Calgary has proposed setting up a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in the Priddis area to learn more about monitoring carbon dioxide stored underground.

Alberta Health Services is urging more Okotokians to get their flu shots as the agency strives to meet its target of immunizing one-third of the province’s population.

Seven-year-old Noel Young of Calgary is suffering from a rare disease and in need of a stem cell transplant — he is hoping someone in Okotoks will be his saviour. Noel was diagnosed in 2008 with a rare form of chronic granulomatous disease.

All signs show Okotoks’ business community is bouncing back after some down years in terms of growth.

Concerns about lowest bids being rewarded contracts for construction of school facilities are being raised by local school boards after both had to halt work done by the same contractor. Foothills School Division claimed Bayview Constructors Inc.