The Municipal District of Willow Creek council has re-zoned land south of Claresholm to accommodate a pulse cleaning plant and future protein extraction facility. At its July 8 meeting, council read an application by Koralta Agri-Business to re-zone 21.46 acres at SE-1-12-27-4 two miles south of Claresholm east of Highway 2 from rural general to rural industrial. They then convened … Read more…
The Municipal District of Willow Creek will write a letter to the Natural Resources Conservation Board expressing its concerns that the board’s approvals do not take into consideration matters beyond its scope such as roads and bridges. At its June 10 meeting, the M.D.’s Municipal Planning Commission discussed an application to the Natural Resources Conservation Board by the Granum Hutterian … Read more…
The Municipal District of Willow Creek has begun the process of welcoming Granum residents into the M.D. after receiving official word the Town of Granum has dissolved and become a hamlet within the M.D. At its Feb. 12 meeting, M.D. council was updated on Granum’s dissolution and what the M.D. did to communicate with residents about what is next. The … Read more…
Flood mitigation By Rob Vogt, Local Press Writer The stormwater ponds in the south part of Claresholm just north of the acreages east of Eighth Street are coming to life. Last week, contractors toured representatives of the Town of Claresholm through the stormwater retention ponds and showed the planting that is under way at the ponds to create wetlands. They … Read more…