Battlefords News-Optimist

After wrapping up its first season of operation, the Dekker Centre for the Performing Arts will be closed for the next several weeks.

Wednesday night on the Battleford Flats marked opening day of the Battlefords Ladies' Fastball League playoffs, and it didn't disappoint.

Parents whose children will be attending Grade 8 at the North Battleford Comprehensive High School this fall are being sent information about what they can expect for their children.

This past weekend was a deadly one on Northwest area roads. In addition to a fatal hit-and-run at Poundmaker First Nation comes word of a vehicle rollover in the RM of Mayfield, north of Maymont Sunday. The incident happened around 3:15 p.m.

We first noticed there was a problem a few months ago. The driver-side front tire was nearly flat. Somehow, we picked up a long screw. Thankfully, the tire shop got us in and fixed just before closing, a fact for which we were grateful.

Howard Weitzel's been pitching horseshoes since he was just a kid growing up on his dad's farm in Edam and 80 years later he's still going. When he was 14 he started playing against men at picnics and just kept getting better.

RCMP in Blaine Lake have arrested a 19-year-old woman who travelled at excessive speeds in the RM of Douglas. Around 6:20 a.m.

The Battlefords Trade and Education Centre continueS to move slowly but surely forward in their plans for a new facility.

MICHAUD: À la douce mémoire de Annette Marie Simonne Michaud who was born July 7, 1916 at Coaticook, Québec and passed away June 18, 2013 at North Battleford, SK.

The City of North Battleford says the recently-amended Traffic Bylaw provisions impacting heavy-haul vehicles will come into effect July 15.