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EAST CENTRAL — Don Rempel, the North East School Division’s director of education, accepted a year-long contract extension due to the pandemic. Rempel previously planned for a retirement at the end of the 2020-21 academic year.

The City of North Battleford has issued a news release where it is “strongly encouraging” people to stay away from the North Saskatchewan River until the ice breakup is complete.

The province has announced in a news release that the Government-Trustee Bargaining Committee and the Teachers’ Bargaining Committee have reached a tentative Provincial Collective Bargaining Agreement.

Along with healthcare, the All Nations Healing Hospital in Fort Qu’Appelle, Sask. is giving its patients a second freebie — new cloth masks, all handmade and donated.

UPDATE: Meadow Lake RCMP advise that through further investigation it was determined charges in relation to this investigation pertaining to one of the people in the original release should not proceed and have been stayed.

As of April 22, Saskatchewan has six new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the provincial total to 326. Sixty-one of the cases are considered active. Nine more people have recovered, bringing the provincial total to 261.

Hundreds of workers in northern Saskatchewan will be hit with a 25 per cent pay cut in May, as Cameco Corporation’s Cigar Lake mine and Orano Canada Inc.

ARBORFIELD — A structure fire in Arborfield led to several destroyed power lines, burning on an exterior of a home and a destroyed garage.

On April 21, at approximately 6 p.m., Morse RCMP responded to the report of a serious two-vehicle collision approximately 17 kilometers east of Chaplin, on Highway 1.

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