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The possible impact of the new North Battleford official community plan on the operations of the Battlefords Agricultural Society came up at a Dec. 9 council meeting.

Cut Knife RCMP are investigating a snowmobile theft that occurred sometime between 1 and 7 p.m. Dec. 5.

It was another quiet 24 hours as Battlefords RCMP responded to fewer than 20 calls for service/occurrences between 6 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 18 and 6 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 19.

There was willingness to meet, but no firm commitments from Battlefords-Lloydminster MP Gerry Ritz about federal help towards public safety in North Battleford this past week.

Former youth worker Christopher Passley has been sentenced to two years less a day in jail in connection to a vicious beating of his girlfriend in the city.

With a new, cutting-edge ultrasound in its grasp, the Humboldt District Health Complex (HDHC) will no longer have to send patients home worried they missed something.

Here is a rundown of some of the other items that came up at the Dec. 9 meeting of North Battleford city council.

RCMP in North Battleford are calling shifts between 6 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 17 and 6 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 18 quiet, when they were called to less than 20 occurrences. Among those calls were three false alarms. Tuesday 6:29 a.m.

First impressions mean everything. That was no more apparent to Humboldt than when representatives from the Town of Kindersley submitted their summary of the city a couple of weeks ago.

The largest crop in Saskatchewan's history has resulted in a backlog of shipments, an overflow of grains at the elevator level, and farmers being forced to store them on the ground.