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Neighbourly Advice According to Ed

Braydon Buziak is heading further west to continue his major junior hockey career.

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A freelance journalist contacted Battlefords Publishing the other day, not to try to sell us a story, but to offer us a free story with a North Battleford connection because it might help him reach out to a woman he met recently on a train in Switzer

Here are a few items to come from the Battlefords Chamber of Commerce’s Dec. 19 meeting, the final one for 2017: Some big changes may be in store for the titles of officers on the Battlefords Chamber of Commerce.

Hello everyone. As for the issue at Canadian Tire, I’m not of First Nation ancestry. I know how the fellow feels about those alarms at the check out exit doors. It’s not just C.T.

This was the scene last Wednesday afternoon at Gold Eagle Casino at an event celebrating Indigenous youth in the community.

Battlefords Interval House has received a big donation of warm winter clothes as part of SaskEnergy’s “Share the Warmth” initiatives. The clothes were collected during the Festival of Trees event put on by the Battlefords Union Hospital Foundation.

There is a new publisher at Battlefords Publishing. He is Gordon Brewerton, who comes to the Battlefords from his most recent position in Prince Albert.

Heading into the start of their Canalta Cup title defence, there were many questions surrounding the Battlefords North Stars, ranging from who would fill the holes left by graduating players and how would new head coach and general manager Brandon He