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Saskatchewan Hospital New Beginnings will be closer to fundraising its $8 million due to a contribution from the Town of Battleford.

The mayors of Battleford and North Battleford had no shortage of news to share in their annual state of the City/Town address Tuesday.

No two potato cultivars are alike. Every type of potato or cultivar has been bred for a particular purpose. Boiling potatoes don’t necessarily fry well and baking potatoes don’t necessarily boil well.

Two special people were honoured recently by being inducted in the Lions Hall of Fame — Colin and Adele Turuk.

“If I can get the message out there through my book, to some people that it’s just one day at a time —it’s just have one good day and have another good day.”

After being thrown into the line of fire as a younger squad in 2017, this year’s North Battleford Midget AA Beavers lineup enters the Saskatchewan Premier Baseball League campaign with a better idea of what to expect.

Levi Kleiboer has another option for his hockey future.

The 2018 scholarships from the Peter Lewochko Fund with Battlefords and District Community Foundation were announced recently.

There are so many weird connections between what happened in 2008-09 and today. For one, that period, the greatest recession since 1929, was supposed to be the end of SUVs.

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