Battlefords News-Optimist

An orchard is not something you often hear of in Saskatchewan. Symtree Orchard, located 6.5 kilometres west of Luseland on Highway 771, is becoming better known and its produce more coveted.

For the first time in months, live school board meetings have resumed at Living Sky School Division. The board held their first meeting back on Wednesday afternoon, after months of closed virtual meetings.

There are 11 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on September 24, bringing the total to 1,846 reported cases.

Submitted A group of likeminded organizations, businesses and individuals have come together to work on reconciliation in the Battlefords area.

Saskatchewan’s active drilling rig count spent the third week of September hovering around 10 rigs working, with nine working on Sept. 25, according to Rig Locator (riglocator.ca).

As the COVID-19 pandemic keeps shooting holes in hunting outfitters’ budgets, the provincial government is trying to help them reload for 2021.

Ethan Bear of the Edmonton Oilers hockey team says he knows what it’s like to feel “stranded.” That’s why he’s lending his support to a $3.3 million pilot project to have a team of health workers travel by bus to seven Saskatchewan First Nations.

Cities, including Meadow Lake, and their local RCMP detachments have finalized their multi-year financial plans for the upcoming five-year span of municipal policing.

As of Thursday’s weekly COVID-19 report, there are 24 active cases among children and youth of Saskatchewan. None of these are in the North or Far North zones. Thirteen of the cases are in the Saskatoon zone and five are in the Regina zone.

Regina – On Sept. 23, NDP Leader Ryan Meili targeted political party finance reform in the run-up to this fall’s election. Meili spoke of “the need to get big money out of Saskatchewan politics.