Three Alsager schools have been involved in a project with Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service to display artwork at Alsager Fire Station conveying key fire safety messages.

Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service worked with the schools, Cranberry Academy, Pikemere Primary and Highfields Primary, encouraging the children to draw a variety of pictures to represent key fire safety messages. A safety advocate went into each of the schools and delivered a talk around road and fire safety to give the children the information they needed to produce the artwork ideas. These drawings were then given to a design company to use alongside key safety messages to create the five panels. [Read more…]

Alsager Station has again been put in the spotlight at the annual East Midlands Trains (EMT) Best Stations Awards.

This year, Alsager took the Community Partnership Award in recognition of the involvement of schoolchildren in improving the station gardens and commemorating World War 1, and individual projects with the station volunteers like station twinning with Rose Hill, In Bloom and a new garden celebrating 100 years of the Women’s Institute.

This year’s Alsager Christmas Lights Switch On event will take place on Sunday 29th November from 4-8pm.

Come along to enjoy a huge range of festive entertainment, from Band’s Santa’s Grotto, performances by Crewe Brass,The Can’t Sing Choir, ACT Drum Corps The Singalong Choir, Denise Leigh’s operatic singing at Alsager Civic, Festive market stalls, fairground rides, life-size Minion characters etc. An array of local shops will also be open during this event. The Christmas lights will be switched on at 6pm at the Bank Corner crossroads, followed by a spectacular firework display. Wrap up warm!