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New rec facilities have hefty price tag
By COLLIN GALLANT on August 29th, 2023
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant A twinplex arena and south-side swim centre would improve recreation landscape in Medicine Hat, but each would cost as much as the Medicine Hat Event Centre to build. That is according to a final report on capital priorities unveiled at a special meeting of council on Monday. The study was debated in a council ... Read More »
1 responseAerial survey of city tree canopy to be conducted this fall
By COLLIN GALLANT on August 29th, 2023
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant Arborists will give Medicine Hat’s urban forest a check-up this fall with an aerial survey of tree canopy throughout the city. The computer-driven process will use laser light to map public and private trees and determine the overall state of health, managers with the parks department told members of council’s public services committee on ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Council to discuss utility relief options sooner than later
By COLLIN GALLANT on August 29th, 2023
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant City council will discuss potential utility relief options sooner, rather than later. The decision to expedite the issue to Sept. 5 came up unexpectedly at a special meeting of council on Monday held directly following a council committee of the whole session to discuss recreation facility priorities. Mayor Linnsie Clark called the special meeting ... Read More »
1 responsePower protest meeting moving for larger crowd
By COLLIN GALLANT on August 26th, 2023
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant A ratepayer protest meeting set for next week has outgrown its venue. An open meeting to discuss the impact of high power bills on the restaurant sector was expanded this week to the general public. After a flurry of calls to join in from the general public, organizer Sou Boss says it will now ... Read More »
1 responseCouple pushes for Trans-Canada Way crossing
By Samantha Johnson Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on August 26th, 2023
reporter@medicinehatnews.com Sandy and Bobbi Halldorson live in South Ridge and go regularly to crew training, located on the south side of Trans-Canada Way across from Rona. “We only live about a kilometre and a half away, so we want to walk to the gym and then home,” explained Sandy. The couple walk to 13th Avenue ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!City tax exemptions total about $33M per year
By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on August 26th, 2023
https://www.medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews Property tax exemptions in the city are cumulatively worth $33 million per year to the city treasury, but only about five per cent of that is related to non-profit groups, charities or churches, a new report states. Thursday’s meeting of council’s corporate services committee heard that the municipal bill for about 100 qualifying accounts ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Larry Randle becomes city’s fourth city clerk in 18 months
By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on August 26th, 2023
https://www.medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews New city clerk Larry Randle was formally introduced at Monday’s city council meeting. The former Lethbridge County director of community services becomes the fourth person to hold the job in 18 months. In June, Arlen Karbeshewski left the position after 10 months in the position. She was replaced on an interim basis by city ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Former disgraced city jail guard arrested in stolen truck in Swift
By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on August 25th, 2023
https://www.medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews A former city jail guard who was fired and charged with accessing prisoner files has been arrested in Swift Current while inside a stolen truck. Teegan Austin, 21, was taken into custody this week by RCMP officers in the Saskatchewan city along with two other Medicine Hat men, Ricky Vidnes, 27, and Nicolas Langille, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!#WeSeeYou: International Overdose Awareness Day honours the lost while building hope
By Samantha Johnson Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on August 25th, 2023
reporter@medicinehatnews.com The sixth annual International Overdose Awareness Day Event is being held by local drug coalition members on Aug. 31. Part of the event this year is social-media campaign #weseeyou, and Mayor Linnsie Clark will be wearing one of the purple T-shirts with the slogan when she signs a declaration the day before the event. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Millions on hold in southeast Alberta with renewables pause: Pembina Institute
By COLLIN GALLANT on August 25th, 2023
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant Renewable power plant proposals that are now on hold could have provided a substantial boost to rural Alberta tax base – and most to the Medicine Hat region – according to a new study by think tank, the Pembina Centre. It was held up Thursday by the Alberta New Democrats who continued to call ... Read More »
1 responseLittle Britches Sweetheart reflects on world-building year
By Samantha Johnson Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on August 25th, 2023
reporter@medicinehatnews.com Hannah Chalifoux was crowned the Dunmore Equestrian Centre’s Little Britches Rodeo Sweetheart in early September last year and feels she is ready to pass on the crown this weekend. “It was really good, I had lots of awesome opportunities,” said Chalifoux. One of the first events she attended was the Hanna pro rodeo where ... Read More »
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