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EAST CENTRAL — Efforts to improve literacy among students in the Horizon School Division are having an effect.

Innovation Credit Union is warning customers of service disruptions April 12 to 14. The disruption is due to a banking update in order to add Goodsoil and Pierceland members to their system as part of a recent merger.

Theft brings down mood of longtime event

At an event celebrating the best of Saskatchewan’s newspapers, The Recorder won second place in the best all-round newspaper with a circulation of over 6,500 category.

But it was marginally better than April 2017

North Battleford Combined Traffic Service Section will be hosting an enforcement blitz April 11-12 in the North Battleford area.

An individual charged in a police shooting incident in Onion Lake was sentenced to a lengthy prison term Wednesday in Battleford. Rocky Ochuschayoo was sentenced in Queen’s Bench court to six years for the two counts against him.

Sentencing has begun for the man charged in connection to a dangerous standoff with RCMP near Delmas last April.

The Battlefords Regional News-Optimist has come up as an award winner in several categories at the annual Saskatchewan Weekly Newspaper Association Better Newspapers Competition. Reporters John Cairns and Josh Greschner each earned awards.

Judging by the photos, it seems to be as much fun behind the serving table as lining up for it at the annual Wildlife Federation Smoker. It’s always a full house, as it was April 6. They come from miles around for the meat.