Local News

A tractor worth around $150,000 stolen from an implement dealer in Avonlea was recovered by the Humboldt-Lanigan RCMP on a farm property between Annaheim and Spalding. Cst.

Media tour precedes public tours that start Monday

North Battleford will end 2018 far ahead of last year’s building permit values totals. That was confirmed Monday from numbers presented at the City’s planning committee meeting.

The Horizon School Division will be using its own money to buy a portable for Wadena Elementary School. The portable is still in the engineering stage, but is expected to cost in the neighbourhood of $300,000.

• The Battleford and District Museum and Heritage Board read letters opposing demolishing the Old St. Vital Church in Battleford, and voted unanimously to leave the church “in present state.

New hotels and new movie theatres aren’t the only new builds in North Battleford right now. Another project now under construction has finally been officially announced as a Giant Tiger outlet.

Efforts by the Battlefords Chamber of Commerce to restore VIA rail passenger service to North Battleford seem to have new momentum after recent meetings in Lloydminster.

Watson has elected a new councillor. Lindsey Sobchyshyn won the Oct. 17 byelection with 147 votes. He ran against Doug Ehlert, who received 20 votes. The byelection was held to replace Kevin Frerich, who resigned from council in May.

FORT À LA CORNE — Test drilling for diamonds has started on the first bulk sample hole in the Fort à la Corne forest.

Much more development is being contemplated in the coming years for North Battleford’s southeast quadrant. At the City’s planning committee meeting Monday, consultants from Urban Systems Ltd. presented the final report on the Yellow Sky Master Plan.