Battlefords News-Optimist

It was an upset that few saw coming.

Students around the Battlefords have been swept up in the We Day phenomenon, including students from St. Vital School in Battleford. Twenty-seven students from the school travelled to Saskatoon Feb.

The stage at Logie Hall was full-to-overflowing with local talent on Sunday, March 3.

The Battlefords AAA Sharks' season came to an end Sunday, as they lost in game three to the first overall Regina Rebels.

A live presentation at North Battleford Comprehensive High School Thursday afternoon featured two aboriginal artists and activists, hip-hop artist and poet Brad Bellegarde and independent producer and filmmaker Marcel Petit.

TOMANEK: In Loving Memory of Nelly Tomanek who was born November 2, 1924 at Redfield, SK, and passed away February 19, 2013 at Edmonton, AB.

Bert Lorne Joseph Cooper was born on Aug. 25, 1936 at the Notre Dame Hospital in North Battleford. Lorne was the sixth in a family of nine children and was raised in a single parent home.

Mosquito First Nation is going to the polls again in a band election in April, and already the vote is in some turmoil. Both incumbent chief Noel Stone Jr.

The past week proved to be a big one for Saskatchewan's STARS Air Ambulance service. STARS, the acronym for Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society, began 12-hour-a-day service out of Saskatoon last fall. It was announced Feb.

At the start of the Bauer Conference Survivor Series, the Battlefords North Stars and their supporters weren't anticipating it would come to this, but the North Stars were facing a sweep.