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Redberry Lake Biosphere Reserve (RLBR) recently hosted a delegation from Japan. Nobuhiko Wakamatsu, Ryo Sakurai and Akiko Sakai spent a week learning about the similarities and differences between the RLBR and the biosphere reserve in Japan.

It was a case of sink or swim at the August 28 committee meeting of the Department of Community and Leisure Services in Humboldt. A delegation made up of 10 women and two men brought a petition with 353 signatures to the meeting.

It may have been an almost record-setting in its brevity, but there was some serious news emerging from Tuesday's town council meeting. The agenda of the meeting was one of the thinnest on record, and council went through it in a few minutes.

If you visit Humboldt on Google Earth these days, a few things are going to stick out. The Humboldt and District Museum and Gallery (HDMG) is one of them.

Two more candidates have officially come forward in the race for city council in North Battleford and both are familiar names. One is Councillor Don Buglas, who filed his nomination papers late last week.

The RCMP in Saskatchewan reported a busy Labour Day weekend on the roads during its province-wide traffic safety blitz.

Nominations are now open for the 2012 municipal election in the Battlefords. The call for nominations was officially issued Aug.

Saskatchewan's New Democrats have included the Battlefords as one of its locales for all-candidates forums for its upcoming leadership race.

A unique birthday celebration was held Aug. 25 near Blaine Lake. The family and friends of Mary Riben gathered at The Olive Tree near Petrofka Bridge for a meal in honour of Mary's 90th birthday.

This fall's civic election race is officially underway in North Battleford as Councillor Ron Crush has become the first officially nominated candidate in the race.