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A resolution on a request by the Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 70 to waive street closure fees has been tabled to the next council meeting. The resolution before the floor had called for the request to waive fees to be turned down.

Jim Toye has resigned as city manager in North Battleford. Toye's departure takes effect Dec. 31. He takes over Jan. 2 as the new city manager in Prince Albert.

In the 24 hours between 6 a.m. - Thursday and 6 a.m. - Friday, Battlefords RCMP investigated 40 occurrences. Thursday 12:24 p.m. - Complaint of male sleeping behind a business on Railway Avenue East.

Mayor Ian Hamilton and City Manager Jim Toye were meeting this week with provincial Minister of Justice Gordon Wyant and Minister of Corrections and Public Safety Christine Tell in Regina.

During a three-decade career, network TV reporter and anchor Richard Brown has had a knack for being where news happens.

It looks as if there will be some more information coming in the RCMP detachment reports in the near future.

What began as a missing person case has evolved into a murder investigation for Blaine Lake RCMP. RCMP say Arnoldo Rey Jr. has been charged with second degree murder and with offering indignity to a dead human body. Arnoldo Rey Sr.

Two incidents involving knives were dealt with by Battlefords RCMP Wednesday. Two people have been charged after RCMP were called to a report of domestic dispute involving weapons in the 1300 block of 103rd Street.

Wednesday members of the Battlefords RCMP detachment dealt with more than 30 new calls for service and incidents in the community. 8:47 a.m.

Centenarians are still rare, and so, my father, John Benjamin Jackson can be considered a rare man, having reached 100 years of age on Oct. 1.