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MELFORT — Melfort’s Maude Burke Elementary is starting the year off with two brand-new classrooms. “Over the last couple years we’ve seen a sharp increase of students,” saidRandySteciuk, the school’s principal.

The Humboldt Sarcan location had a lot to celebrate this past year, including their grand opening at their new depot location on 13th street on Aug. 22.

North Battleford officials are sounding the alarm about the amount of contamination found in recycling carts in the city. The issue came up at last week’s city council meeting. Administration noted that Loraas Environmental Services Ltd.

City Hall and provincial officials appear to have figured out a plan to fix the crumbling service roads along Highway 4 North in North Battleford.

A 19-year-old grain farmer named Justin Rewerts, who is a member of the Cut Knife rural fire department, has decided once again to “pay it forward.

The individual charged in a break and enter and robbery near Edam in January will be back in court Sept. 4, by closed-circuit TV. Darian Jordan Meesto made his latest appearance in court on Aug. 29 by CCTV.

The sod has officially been turned to mark the construction of a new housing project at 1132 98th Street in North Battleford. The project is a supported rooming house that will house eight hard-to-house individuals at that location.

An individual facing several drug and weapons charges has entered several guilty pleas in North Battleford provincial court Tuesday.

TISDALE — Tisdale Elementary School students can expect a new look as they return to school in September.

It was the most important decision that Logan Boulet made in his 21 years of life and he made it only a month before the April 6 bus crash that would claim his life.