After a tough year, Strathmore and Wheatland County’s small business community is facing another hurdle as the province has enacted additional public health measures, including reducing retail capacity to 15Read More »
The Strathmore Handi-bus Association is considering adopting a new organizational model to address financial challenges it faces. The Strathmore Handi-bus provides accessible transportation to senior citizens and temporarily and permanentRead More »
Job losses and disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic have increased the number of children in Alberta living in poverty. A new report highlighting the issue of child poverty, Spotlight:Read More »
The Strathmore Municipal Library is now closed due to new public health measures, but it is still providing a range of services, including curbside pickup and online programming. The provinceRead More »
I have been blown away by the outreach to small business at this difficult time. I have also been shopping online and locally, and have heard from folks that theyRead More »
While many have turned to online searches for telephone and address information, all but making phonebooks obsolete, this has made accessing information difficult for those without access to or notRead More »
Depression has become a common, perhaps even overused, word in our society. It’s often used to describe a wide range of emotional experiences, most commonly sadness or hopelessness. Someone mayRead More »
Rural residents of Wheatland County will have new mailing addresses sometime in the new year. Canada Post is completing the civic addressing program, an effort to match physical addresses toRead More »
Changes to Lakewood Meadows are being planned, including a new commercial development and a possible two-rink arena. During the Town of Strathmore regular council meeting on Dec. 2, council votedRead More »
While navigating the court system can be daunting at any time, COVID-19 has made things more complicated. The COVID-19 outbreak shut down Alberta’s court system at the start of theRead More »
The provincial government has enacted new public health measures that will place more restrictions on how people live, work and play for at least the next four weeks. During aRead More »