Battlefords News-Optimist

Police caught more than 4,000 drivers exceeding the speed limit during July's province-wide traffic safety spotlight focusing on speeding, according to an SGI press release.

Between gigs in Toronto and Edmonton, the duo Ash & Bloom will be performing in North Battleford at an event in support of the Empty Stocking Fund.

The right hand lane of Highway 4 entrance to the City, located under the train overpass, will be partially closed August 21, 22 and 23 from 9 a.m. to noon. Drivers are instructed to slow down and obey the signs.

A regular meeting of North Battleford city council was held Monday.

Another week and another week of hot weather. My sympathies to those poor flag girls on Waseca grid north who must stand out in the sun all day long from 6:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. I know I could not do it.

LEWIS: In Loving Memory of Isabel "Bell" Lewis: nee: Black: who was born April 20, 1931 at Canaan Forks, New Brunswick and passed away July 15, 2014 at Battleford, SK.

In the wake of the Lac-Mégantic oil-by-rail disaster, when a train carrying crude oil from North Dakota's Bakken field exploded in Quebec, some people began to characterize Bakken crude oil as "uniquely flammable," implicating that new rail car stand

Eleven artists have taken up occupancy of the new Artist Run Centre in downtown North Battleford, and there is room for one more.

Approximately 32 calls for service occurrences were reported between 6 a.m. Monday, Aug. 18 and 6 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 19, including, two false alarms, one erratic driving complaint and one false or nuisance 911 call. Monday 7:07 a.m.

American poet John Greenleaf Whittier once wrote, "For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been!'" He wrote it but I've sure been thinking about it a lot.