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Town council has tabled until June 16 discussion of the final report from the second phase of an organizational review.…Continue Reading

A colourful character from the past is the subject of a new exhibit at the Granum Old Jail and Museum. Nora Tanuina Mortes Barley Power — known affectionately as Rainbow Power by Granum and Fort Macleod residents — has a prominent place in the museum. “She was quite an icon in Granum,” museum volunteer Mike…Continue Reading

A Fort Macleod man got an unexpected hug from a friend on Saturday. Nigel Edmunds was presented with a Quilt…Continue Reading

HERB JOHNSON – GAZETTE CONTRIBUTOR Many popular authors have a one column list of previous novels right there on the…Continue Reading

The sale of 320 acres by the Town of Fort Macleod has cleared another hurdle. Conditions on the sale of…Continue Reading

KERRI ROBINS – GAZETTE CONTRIBUTOR When Daniel Plourde collapsed on Nov. 14, 2013, he was 20 minutes outside of town and fearing for his life because of the pains in his chest. “I got home and my wife called the ambulance and got me to the hospital in Fort Macleod,” the 59-year-old Plourde said. “By…Continue Reading

Livingstone-Macleod MLA Pat Stier will shadow Alberta Municipal Affairs. Stier was appointed the shadow minister for Alberta Minister Affairs on…Continue Reading

Fort Macleod council approved an $8.885-million budget Monday night that calls for a 2.983 per cent tax hike. Council also…Continue Reading

HERB JOHNSON – GAZETTE CONTRIBUTOR The widely-held view that newspaper reporters make better novelists than lawyers takes a pretty good…Continue Reading