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In an address to Saskatchewan residents, Scott Moe, Saskatchewan’s premier, said the province is planning to gradually allow businesses and services to reopen.

Premier Scott Moe addressed the province Wednesday, praising Saskatchewan residents for their efforts in flattening the COVID-19 curve. “The last few weeks have been difficult for everyone,” said Moe. “This is not how things are supposed to be.

The City of North Battleford is now under a fire ban due to dry conditions and high winds.

There has been no shortage of issues for the Battlefords Chamber of Commerce to deal with lately. As expected, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on business was a prime topic at the Chamber’s monthly board meeting Tuesday.

A four-year tentative agreement has been reached between the provincial government and the Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation.

EAST CENTRAL — Don Rempel, the North East School Division’s director of education, accepted a year-long contract extension due to the pandemic. Rempel previously planned for a retirement at the end of the 2020-21 academic year.

The City of North Battleford has issued a news release where it is “strongly encouraging” people to stay away from the North Saskatchewan River until the ice breakup is complete.

The province has announced in a news release that the Government-Trustee Bargaining Committee and the Teachers’ Bargaining Committee have reached a tentative Provincial Collective Bargaining Agreement.

Along with healthcare, the All Nations Healing Hospital in Fort Qu’Appelle, Sask. is giving its patients a second freebie — new cloth masks, all handmade and donated.

UPDATE: Meadow Lake RCMP advise that through further investigation it was determined charges in relation to this investigation pertaining to one of the people in the original release should not proceed and have been stayed.