Barrhead News

The County of Barrhead is seeking equality in charitable gaming dollars between urban and rural municipalities. Councillors voted Sept.

It is official, there is a new fire services agreement between the Town and the County of Barrhead. The new Barrhead Regional Fire Services agreement, which goes into effect Jan. 1, 2018, was approved at the Sept.

It looks like there will be an election after all — at least for voters in the Town of Barrhead and the County of Barrhead's Division 4. As the nomination deadline passed at noon on Sept.

The town and county are one step closer to having a fire services agreement. Barrhead town councillors unanimously approved the 12-page agreement during their Sept. 11 meeting.

Starting in the spring of 2018 Barrhead town residents will be saying goodbye to back lane garbage pickup — at least if everything goes according to schedule.

It is a beautiful building. That was the consensus of the more than 70 people who attended the Sept. 13 official ribbon cutting for Lac Ste. Anne County’s (LSAC) new administration building about two kilometres south of Sangudo.

Woodlands County councillors believe medical marijuana might cure many of the issues the Hamlet of Fort Assiniboine faces. On Sept.

Area artist Roberta Peirson is the Barrhead Art Gallery’s artist-of-the-month for September. Peirson has worked with a variety of mediums over the decades she has been a painter and says there is always time to try something new.

Misty Ridge Ski hill will open for business this winter. The question is for how long and in what capacity. That is what Misty Ridge Society board chair Kerry McElroy told the Barrhead Leader last week.

Long-time Barrhead area resident and business person Mark Vriend is taking his second attempt at the mayor’s chair. In his first mayoral run, four years ago, Vriend lost to Gerry St.