Local News

City council received an update Monday on the status of construction for the Credit Union CUplex. Two components of the facility are now under construction: the performing arts centre and the aquatic centre.

As school winds down for the winter holiday, the Living Sky School Division board has been in high gear, as they receive year-end reports and prepare for the semester ahead.

The death of Ida Paul in June 2009 has been ruled accidental, caused by multi-organ failure. That was the determination Thursday of the jury in the coroner's inquest held at Don Ross Centre to look into the case.

A ceremony was held Dec. 10 to recognize the graduates of North West Regional College's Battlefords Campus hairstylist program.

The local branch of the CIBC celebrated 100 years of service in Maidstone Friday. The Standard Bank of Canada opened its doors in the community Dec. 12, 1910.

As some hid inside their warm houses Saturday and quivered at the sight of the snow falling, others were outside enjoying the winter weather at Table Mountain.

Battlefords Residential Services Inc. (BRSI) held their annual Christmas and awards function Nov. 27 in conjunction with Battlefords Community Players supper theatre at the Western Development Museum.

Citizens of Humboldt will now be pleased when travelling west of the city. On December 4, the Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure (MHI) completed paving on a section of Highway 5.

Greeting Santa Santa Claus took time during the 79th annual Watson Santa Claus Days to meet with residents of Quill Plains Centennial Lodge.

Amid the hustle and bustle of the season there are hours set aside for thoughts of faith, hope, peace and goodwill toward all. In Maidstone the annual ecumenical carol service is a time to sit and wait, but no man in a red hat appears.