Local News

From the Tisdale Recorder files, March 23, 1988

A meeting that allowed Melfort-area residents to ask questions of the local RCMP that saw around 20 attend was dominated by questions about rural crime.

With a bang rather than a whimper, Elise Pallagi presented her art to Sakewew students last week. Pallagi is a spoken word poet who grew up in North Battleford.

Want to partake in selling legal marijuana? There’s a three-step process to get the required permit. The process was unveiled March 14.

Snowmobile rallies from across the area took place in February to raise money for clubs and communities. Cudworth This year was a good year for the Cudworth Lions Club and their poker rally on Feb. 3, says Amber Ponak.

Four adult males have been arrested and will appear in court after a search warrant was executed at a residence on Winder Cres. The search took place March 22 at around 4 pm by members of the Battlefords Municipal GIS Section.

A large number of seat belt offences in February had SGI concerned as they released results of their Traffic Safety Spotlight for the month.

The cause of a SaskEnergy natural gas pipeline rupture that knocked out service in the Melfort area in January has been found. The pipeline was hit by somebody using digging equipment in a field.

In the ongoing divisive fallout of the Gerald Stanley murder trial, another entity has publicly characterized the members of the jury in the case as racists and suggests only anti-Indigenous laws and practices led to Stanley's acquittal.

The Nipawin Hawks must be experiencing déjà vu. The Hawks picked up their third win of the playoffs away from home, knocking off the Flin Flon Bombers 5-2 in the fourth game of the quarter-final series against Flin Flon on March 21.