Magrath’s 2012 tax bylaw was voted in unanimously at Tuesday’s town council meeting. The new bylaw institutes an overall five per cent decrease in municipal operating costs for residents.

The popular talent show “Raymond’s Got Talent” is expected to fill the seats of the Raymond Theatre next month for its second annual run.
“It was standing room only last year,” said Brian Dudley, a board member with the Raymond Playhouse Society which is cost sponsoring the even with the Town of Raymond.

The Magrath Museum expansion project is running on schedule to be completed by the end of 2012.
Funds have been secured, only to complete the back at this point, but letters have been sent and grants have been applied for to complete the front also.

Many small communities throughout southern Alberta have heard about the Emergency Management Bylaw, and the commonly referred to “rough” language of it. Both Raymond and Magrath town councils have agreed to readings of a new draft of the bylaw.