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Patience Beard is an all-American girl, a college cheerleader for the Arkansas Razorbacks, and she is an amputee. Her left leg was amputated below the knee in childhood.

North Battleford city council has voted to move ahead with major upgrades to Carlton Trail in 2020.

With board elections in the books, the Battlefords Chamber of Commerce has now elected its executive committee for 2020.

Change is coming for those interested in hearing the mayor’s annual state of the city address.

A GoFundMe page has been set up for the husband of homicide victim Sheena Billette of La Ronge. The page is set up under the title “Help us raise funds for widowed father of 4.” The link is at: https://www.gofundme.

This Friday night the Dekker Centre will be hosting the sounds of the Blake Reid Band. The concert goes ahead at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 17. This is part of the band’s “No Roads In” tour, in support of their music documentary and soundtrack album.

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It was a more noteworthy than usual road game for the Battlefords North Stars in Melville Wednesday. The game marked the debut in a North Stars uniform for newly-acquired goaltender Kristian Lyon.

Wednesday, Jan. 15, at approximately 10 p.m., Battlefords RCMP were called to a residence on the 1800 block of Trudeau street for a complaint of two males who were seen standing outside a residence with a long barrelled firearm.

The Prince Albert Police Service and the Prince Albert RCMP, together with other agency partners, have wrapped up a successful, seven-month investigation into illegal drug trafficking activity that led to the arrest of 11 people with connections to o