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Here are some of the highlights from a May 24 meeting of North Battleford council: City council has given its green light to submitting an application to the Main Street Saskatchewan Program.

A sewer emergency has closed off access for visitors to Battlefords Union Hospital. According to Linda Lewis of Prairie North Health Region, the situation unfolded in the early morning hours of June 1.

They may be behind, but the farmers are making the best of their late start. Local farmers just started seeding their land within the last two weeks.

Teachers were marching in the streets in North Battleford last week as the labour dispute between the province and the Saskatchewan Teachers Federation escalated.

The PotashCorp Lanigan mine is getting a new service. A ground breaking ceremony for a Canpotex Railcar Maintenance and Staging Facility was held on May 20.

106th street is closed from Railway Avenue to 8th Avenue to all traffic because of replacement being done to water and sewer line.

Sunday morning May 15, Dale Rogers was out doing some mid morning flying with his Powered Parachute northeast of Mayfair, when he saw his close neighbour, Curtis Babiy, stuck in the mud with a four-wheel drive tractor and air seeder in a low spot.

Another PARTY at the Humboldt Uniplex this week was a huge success.

The latest budget estimate is in for the Credit Union CUPlex and it pegs the cost of the project at $59,368,168.02. That number includes $2,827,056.

Contract talks have once again stalled between the Saskatchewan government and the union representing the province's teachers. As a result, 12,000 teachers across the province are withdrawing all services and staging a two-day strike.