Potential Canada Post strike threatens subscription mail
Canada Post workers may strike after the May 22 extension of the current agreement. If a new stoppage occurs, 55,000 staff actions last November to December disrupted service for weeks. Southern Alberta Newspapers urges subscribers to shift to ePaper or pick up copies at Taber Times and Lethbridge Herald offices.
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Canada Post
Canadian Union of Postal Workers
Trevor Busch
Alberta Communities Group
Southern Alberta Newspapers
Alberta
Taber Times
Lethbridge Herald
Abnewsgroup.com
53 Street
Taber
Lethbridge
Taber M.D. Reeve Tamara Miyanaga seeks 2025 election
Reeve Tamara Miyanaga of the M D of Taber announces plans to run in the October 2025 municipal election. She aims to push ahead traffic study results, strengthen emergency services, develop recreation, optimize land use, and refine the budget with alternate funding. Councillor John Turcato plans to run. divisions 1 and 4 details follow, with Merrill Harris not seeking re election.
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M.D. of
Taber
Tamara Miyanaga
M.D
Reeve Miyanaga
John Turcato
Division 2
Miyanaga
Division 1
Merrill Harris
Town to auction Eureka Lands irrigation acres for development
At a May 12 town council meeting the administration reviewed selling 172 irrigation acres from Eureka Lands to fund new subdivisions. A minimum 92 acres must be sold. reserve bids of 4000 to 5000 per acre discussed with possible SMRID Marketplace advertising or independent sale. Count Brewin led the talks.
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Eureka
Council
Megan Sushelnitski
St. Mary
SMRID
Count Brewin
Alberta Seeding Progress Shows Early Pick Up Across Province
Alberta Agriculture reports seeding well ahead of long term averages, with southern Alberta at 49.7 percent versus 34.8 expected. Dry peas lead in the south at 76 percent and durum at 64.4 percent as canola and oats trail. Pasture conditions are fair to good at 91 percent in tame hay and pasture land, while southwest Saskatchewan shows 43 percent seeding and runoff concerns persist for dugouts.
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Alberta
Calgary
Alberta Agriculture
Medicine Hat
Lethbridge
Foremost
Strathmore
Saskatchewan
Maple Creek
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Newspape
Heather Cameron Taber
Times
Local Realism Initiative
Your Town
Tabertimes
Tabertimes.com
Meg Noguchi
St. Mary’s
Alan Makarchuk
Cal Braid
Tabor Times Local Realism Initiative
Thern
Collin Gallant
Zimmatic
Taber Brooks
56Th Avenue
Taber, AB
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