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It is certainly cyclical but once again Okotoks has a zero vacancy rate for rental properties, but it is an issue government can help resolve long-term.

Plans to build a four-tower broadcasting station northeast of Black Diamond need to be scrapped to protect pilots flying at the Cu Nim Gliding Club.

Enrolment at Blackie School is dropping, putting its long-term viability in question, but the school division has a potential solution close at hand. Blackie School’s enrolment this fall is down to 90 students from 117 last year.

The mettle of Alberta’s ranchers is being tested once again this time due an outbreak of E. coli at one of the province’s two federally inspected processing plants.

On Monday afternoon Okotoks council took a definitive step forward, agreeing to proceed with an application to annex enough land for 30 years of growth.

Discontent with Okotoks’ new automated garbage collection system is growing, but council should not be swayed from its objective.

Okotoks town council needs to stop playing games and make a definitive decision on growth because residents deserve to know how their community will unfold.

No parent wants to see their child in pain and its incomprehensible to think of holding one’s child down while someone else inflicts pain on them.

Alberta’s stiffer drinking and driving penalties will be facing their second test over the Labour Day weekend, but will they pass? On Sept. 1 the new provincial penalties for driving between .05 milligrams of alcohol and .09 come into effect.

Over the coming weeks the question haunting the MD of Foothills will be, “What could we have done differently?” Unfortunately, for the staff at the MD there may not be an answer.