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Battleford Director of Finance/Deputy Chief Administrative Officer David Gillan spoke briefly about the Town's 2018 budget and how it’s coming along so far at council Monday.

The former sewage treatment plant in North Battleford is likely to be torn down. The news came at the City’s planning committee meeting Oct. 15. The old facility is located on the hill right below the Don Ross Centre near Highway 4.

NORTHEAST — The North East School Division is changing some policy wording with the legalization of cannabis, but from a student’s perspective nothing will change.

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.