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Nipawin’s council is planning two meetings to hash out how it will levy taxes this year. The town will have to raise an extra 2.2 per cent – around $97,000 – to meet the expenses planned in its budget, passed April 24.

City council has approved a contribution of $25,000 to the Lighthouse for 2017. The reason is to support a mobile outreach program that the Lighthouse has started.

Visitors could see with their own eyes the considerable construction progress at the new Saskatchewan Hospital and integrated correctional facility in North Battleford.

Submitted Battlefords Union Hospital Foundation has announced it is honoured to receive support from long-time North Battleford resident Leola Macdonald for the upcoming On Air for Healthcare Radio-thon fundraiser.

Motor vehicle accidents can have a huge impact, and not just on the victims. That was the message Safe Communities wanted to get across with the 13th annual Prevent Alcohol and Risk Related Trauma in Youth (P.A.R.T.Y.) program on May 3.

In news that comes as little surprise, the new amalgamated provincial health authority will be headquartered in Saskatoon. The announcement was made Monday by provincial health minister Jim Reiter and rural and remote health minister Greg Ottenbreit.

Dickson Hardie was a retired farmer, living along the Carrot River east of Pasquia Regional Park. He would go along the river and look for fossils. Hardie would use a screwdriver and stick it into the bank.

Supporters of the Saskatchewan Transportation Company plan to be out in full force in front of MLA Herb Cox’s office Friday. A rally is planned during the noon hour, between 12:15 p.m. and 12:45 p.m., to protest the cut to STC.

The Battlefords Chamber of Commerce went to City Council Monday to make their views known on the revisions to the city budget.

Even after revising their 2017 budget, North Battleford City officials were still fuming Monday over the loss of payments in lieu from SaskPower and SaskEnergy.