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F.P. Walshe Flyers tipped off the 2014-’15 high school boys basketball season last weekend with a strong showing at a…Continue Reading

The annual Rotary Carol Festival is traditionally held in the F.P. Walshe school gymnasium. But when the gym wasn‘t available this year due to the modernization project, the Rotary Club of Fort Macleod was not deterred. “The Rotary Carol Festival tradition is not about location,” Rotary secretary Angie O’Connor said. “It’s about joy, friendship and…Continue Reading

Auditions begin next week for the Empress Theatre’s spring production of the musical Chickens. Chickens is a rural musical by…Continue Reading

Fort Macleod is preparing for a close-up in the new year. Crews from the television series Fargo will be in…Continue Reading

The RCMP will conduct roadside CheckStops in local detachment areas and on highways throughout Alberta on Friday, Dec. 5. The CheckStop blitz is part of a Canada-wide RCMP enforcement campaign aimed at keeping and taking impaired drivers off the roads. RCMP drug recognition experts will participate in the CheckStops. These officers are trained to identify…Continue Reading

HERB JOHNSON – GAZETTE CONTRIBUTORDoing Hard Time, by Stuart Woods. Published 2013 This is a Stone Barrington novel, which is…Continue Reading

Pat Stier was blindsided by the defection of two Wildrose Party MLAs to the governing party. Innisfail-Sylvan Lake MLA Kerry…Continue Reading

Alberta Lodge No. 3 of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons will have a few friends for dinner on Saturday, Dec.…Continue Reading

Fort Macleod council last week rejected a petition calling for the removal of chief administrative officer David Connauton. Council agreed, however, to a request from the petition organizer to hold a community meeting in the near future. Petition organizer Karen Friesen appeared as a delegation at the Nov. 24 council meeting at the Fort Macleod…Continue Reading