Battlefords News-Optimist

Two candidates are in the running for the Northern Lights School Division subdivision two as the election date draws closer. Incumbent Herb Norton and new candidate Richard Petit are both vying for the position.

Two candidates are in the running for the Northern Lights School Division subdivision one. Incumbent Emilien Janvier and newcomer Bernice Park Campbell are both vying for the position.

When the dust settled over Meadow Lake City Hall, 11 names were on the ballot for the upcoming municipal election. Mayor Merlin Seymour will continue being mayor into the next term, with his run for the mayor’s seat being uncontested.

With only the incumbent mayor and six names to fill six councillor seats, the Town of Spiritwood will not see a civic election this year.

Elections in Northern Saskatchewan communities are coming up at the beginning of November, including in the Northern Village of Île-à-la-Crosse.

There are 74 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on November 1, 2020, bringing the total to 3,218 cases.

Last week the focus was about growing herbs indoors. I wrote about how great (and necessary) it was to continue to garden indoors and about the supplemental lighting that is necessary to grow our favourite culinary herbs.

The moon begins this month less than half a day past full phase. Nov. 4, it is just 0.2 degrees north of the cluster M35. By Nov. 12, the thin, crescent moon shares the early morning sky with Venus, just three degrees north of the bright planet.

Researchers with the University of Saskatchewan’s Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies are part of a global team that has found the smoke cloud pushed into the stratosphere by last winter’s Australian wildfires was three times larger than anyth

Submitted University of Saskatchewan researchers and partners at the City of Saskatoon and the Saskatchewan Health Authority have developed a COVID-19 early warning system by sampling and testing the city’s wastewater for the SARS-CoV-2 virus.