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Big event coming soon! Keep reading the Maymont News to find out what's happening next in Maymont. A GPS is supposed to direct you to a location, but it didn't help a pilot who was heading from Yorkton to Big River.

Alfreda and Reg Snow of Belleville, Ont. stopped in to see Rose Danychuk. Alfreda was Rose's Grade 2 pupil in 1947. Although they have not seen each other since, they've always kept in touch. It was so nice to see one another again.

The Saskatchewan Ministry of Education has awarded the 2014 General Proficiency Awards to 14 students from Living Sky School Division.

The Platinum Anniversary Draw for $5,000 in Battleford Union Hospital Foundation's $100,000 Lottery took place Friday.

The North Battleford RCMP received approximately 35 calls for service between 6 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 16 and 6 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 17.

It's a sweltering 35 degrees as I pull up to a trailer housing the W.A.C. Bennett Dam visitor centre just outside Hudson's Hope, 100 kilometres west of Fort St. John. I'm here to see B.C.'s largest hydro dam first-hand.

Traffic will be reduced to one lane in each direction on 100th Street from 17th Avenue up to about the CJNB radio station in North Battleford today from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. to allow crews to drill test holes.

Having gone through a spring provincial election, Ontario is once again in election mode - this time at the municipal level - with a lot of attention focusing on Toronto.

It's a new look all-around for the Battlefords North Stars heading into the 2014-15 season.

Don Burnstick's distinctive brand of First Nation comedy is coming back to the Battlefords Sept. 25. The difference this time is that Burnstick is playing at the new Dekker Centre for the Performing Arts for the first time.