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It was while he was watching the Carrot River Outback Thunder play in Kinistino on election night that Mike Livermore found out he was voted in to serve on Carrot River Council.

Josh McDougall scored a late power play goal to complete a 4-3 comeback for the Nipawin Hawks over the Kindersley Klippers in Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League action from Kindersley. The Dec.

For the third year in a row, a group of Tisdale residents is working to make sure local seniors receive a gift this year – but they need more donations from the community.

The board of the Nipawin Business Improvement District has declined a funding offer from the town and is planning to resign from their positions en emasse.

Battlefords RCMP are reporting that they along with North Battleford's Community Safety Officers, took part in an SGI Overdrive Project on Dec. 13.

Students from Carlton Trail College received a helping hand on Dec. 6 thanks to the Carlton Trail Awards Dinner. Over the course of the evening 44 students were presented with 46 scholarships worth $44,000.

Mike Livermore is Carrot River's newest councillor. Livermore received 81 out of 144 votes – 56 per cent of the vote – in a Dec. 13 byelection. He defeated Dylan Borody , who received 33 votes, and Joe Doerksen , who received 30 votes.

Innovation Credit Union members have voted in favour of becoming a federal credit union.

Rosemarie Falk is the winner in the Battlefords-Lloydminster federal by-election.

Wally Markewich, location manager of Sallows & McDonald - Wilson & Zehner Funeral Home, presenting a sponsorship cheque of $3,000 to Claudette McGuire, executive director of the Battlefords Union Hospital Foundation.