News and Views – Page 2 – The Rocky Mountain Goat News

Highway contracts promise safer roads Will they deliver?

February 13, 2020 The Goat

By Andru McCracken The highway maintenance contract between the Province and highway maintenance contractors will expire for the Robson Service Area (Wire Cache to the Alberta Border to Loos) in August 2021, and the tender […]

Bus service renewed but gaps remain

February 12, 2020 The Goat

By Andru McCracken The Province’s answer to Greyhound’s departure from Western Canada has been renewed until March 31, 2021. However the service offers nothing for Robson Valley residents wishing to travel to Kamloops, or across […]

Advancing seniors housing in Valemount

February 10, 2020 The Goat

By Andru McCracken Valemount Cares, a committee of the Valemount Senior Citizens Housing Society is in the process of putting together a proposal for an independent living seniors facility and they have started by hiring […]

Valemount council: liquor license, sledfest, seniors’ land delegated

February 9, 2020 The Goat

By Andru McCracken Valemount held its regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday January 28 in council chambers. Mayor Owen Torgerson presided, councillors Sheri Gee, Hollie Blanchette and Pete Pearson were in attendance. Public comments Among other […]

McBride Council: property assessment review deadlines, zoning amendments

February 8, 2020 The Goat

By: ANDREA ARNOLD The members of the McBride Council met for their regular meeting on Tuesday December 10. The meeting was called to order at 7:09pm by acting Mayor Frederick. Also present for the meeting […]

Driver escapes uninjured in truck fire +VIDEO

February 7, 2020 The Goat

By Goat Staff Highway 5 was briefly closed February 4th when a transport truck loaded with potatoes caught on fire near Jackman Flats. The driver was able to escape without harm. RCMP say the cause […]

Going digital, painfully, in McBride

February 6, 2020 The Goat

By Andru McCracken After months off the air, the Robson Valley Entertainment Association’s TV signals were back on in the new year, now in digital format instead of analog. However, it has not been a […]

Giving birth for another: A Valemount woman’s story of surrogacy

February 6, 2020 The Goat

By Laura Keil When Melanie Smith tells people she is having a baby and it’s not hers she sometimes gets an odd look. Smith is beginning her ninth month of pregnancy with a little boy. […]

NOW IN BUSINESS: Emerald Earth Organic Spa

February 5, 2020 The Goat

By Laura Keil Sherrie Houghton is launching a made-in-Valemount line of natural skincare and spa products which she hopes to market across Canada. The Australian-born Naturopath, massage therapist and spa practitioner came to Valemount several […]

Mania in the mountains

February 5, 2020 The Goat

By Andru McCracken Attendees of Mountain Mania X had rave reviews. It was held in McBride last Saturday and it was hosted by the McBride Big Country Snowmobile Association and the online website and forum […]

Former grad returns to district in leadership role

February 5, 2020 The Goat

By ANDREA ARNOLD Newly-appointed School District 57 Superintendent Anita Richardson traveled to the Robson Valley on Monday, January 20, 2020 to check in with schools and meet staff in both McBride and Valemount. When she […]