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For all intents and purposes, the Wakaw Hospital is no more.

The Blaine Lake Composite School junior boys curling team participated in the Prairie Spirit School Division Junior Boys Division Curling playoffs Feb. 15 and 16 at the Waldheim Curling Arena.

Lon Patrick Ritzo is back in Saskatchewan to answer to a number of charges. The 64-year-old man had been charged by North Battleford RCMP for possession of child pornography and assault in 2006.

It seems everybody's getting rich but us. Eileen Turchenek of Luseland struck her luck when she won $25,000 on a scratch and win ticket. "I didn't think I had won a big prize at first," said Turchenek.

The Sask Party has delivered a high-spending budget, but Battlefords MLA Len Taylor says there is one key item missing from the budget. "There is no funding, no mention of Sask. Hospital in the budget," said Taylor.

The Hafford Co-operative Association Ltd. held its annual general meeting March 21 at the Hafford Seniors' Centre.

There are few opportunities to hear the story of horror and hope as told by a living survivor of the Holocaust. Dr. Eva Olsson was in the region last week sharing her memories and message with students and area residents.

Unity Community Centre hosted an MS Liberation Therapy fundraiser featuring Double Vision comedy/magic act March 12.

A merger between two local colleges has been killed, the CEO and president of both has been fired, and the government is now looking into possible financial irregularities.

The luck of the Irish was not with Donald Rushton and Darlene Baptiste on March 17, but rather with the RCMP.