Battlefords News-Optimist

While driving through the community of Maidstone visitors notice rocks, boulders and stones. They hold house numbers, decorate gardens and now the biggest one of all welcomes everyone who enters the town on the main road in from the north.

What used to be a field west of Battleford continues to slowly but surely transform itself into the Telegraph Heights subdivision of Battleford West.

Everyone knows the drill when summer draws to a fruitful close: back to school shopping and getting kids ready for the new school year. At John Paul II Collegiate, a safe and inviting school, all the new students were officially welcomed Friday.

Three vehicles were involved in a collision that happened Friday morning at the intersection of Airport Road and Territorial Drive. One person was transported by WPD Ambulance to Battlefords Union Hospital with undetermined but minor injuries.

Story:The weather this summer has made me skittish. After downpours that have flooded Maple Creek, Saskatoon, Yorkton and North Battleford, I get nervous when we get a lot of rain here in Estevan.

There has been no shortage of opinions from lawmakers and members of the public about the proposed takeover of PotashCorp by BHP Billiton of Australia.

A 25-year-old Lone Rock man appeared in a North Battleford courtroom Tuesday to face charges related to a marijuana grow operation discovered by RCMP Sept. 7 at Marsden.

A 21-year-old man is dead following a collision Sept. 1 on Little Pine First Nation. The collision happened at around 10:15 p.m. RCMP say they responded to a 911 call reporting that a vehicle had crashed on Center Road on Little Pine First Nation.

Battlefords Publishing is the latest entity to step forward to support the Credit Union CUPlex. The company, which publishes the Battlefords News-Optimist and Regional Optimist newspapers and newsoptimist.

The two oldest granddaughters recently returned from nearly two months of summer training and adventure through the Army Cadet Camp they attended in Whitehorse, N.W.T.