Wheel's West

The Inter-municipal Economic Development Committee is working to further strengthen tourism and business in the neighbouring communities.

Staggered recesses and assigned washrooms are among the changes Turner Valley School students will experience as they return to school this week.

Attendance has dropped slightly for Foothills County’s largest farmers’ market in a time when face masks and hand sanitizer have become the norm.

Four people were injured in the Tuesday afternoon collision, including a 23-year-old man from Eden Valley.

Hockey mom Page Emerson has started a petition insisting that parents be allowed to watch their children play sports after the Oilfields Regional Arena implemented a no spectator rule.

Oilfields High School staff hope to provide much of what the school has traditionally offered while abiding by Alberta Health Services' ever-changing guidelines surrounding COVID-19.

The amendment states the Town is no longer required to advertise statutory hearings in the local newspaper for two consecutive weeks.

The Oilfields Regional Arena opens Aug. 24 to pre-booked user groups only to prevent the potential spread of the COVID-19 virus.

The proposed $52 million Mountain View Village has met all of the requirements to begin Phase 1 of the mature adult and senior housing village, which will boast eight villas and a 52-unit condominium on five acres of land west of the Oilfields General Hospital.

As of mid-August, the Boys and Girls Club of the Foothills had just 15 children registered in its before and after school care program in Black Diamond, a drop from 45 last school year.