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NIPAWIN — Other than deliveries by MTN Disposal, the Boreal Area Regional Waste Authority Inc. (BARWA) has temporarily closed landfill closed access to household waste due to a fire on the site.

MELFORT — Residents of Cairns Avenue East in Melfort have petitioned and successfully opted out of the addition of sidewalk, curbs and gutters to a block of the subdivision.

NIPAWIN — Within the Town of Nipawin, the average taxable assessed value for residential properties is $101,600, and the average taxable assessed value for commercial properties is $208,000.

From the province: Meadow Lake Hospital is expanding to accommodate the region's first hemodialysis unit and better serve the residents of northwestern Saskatchewan. Prince Albert-based RNF Ventures Ltd.

Living Sky School Division is reporting nine cases of COVID-19 in three schools in the division. The cases are as follows:three cases at Unity Comprehensive High School, one case at Hafford Central School, and five cases at Leoville Central School.

Submitted by Battlefords RCMP Battlefords RCMP responded to 489 calls for service from Wednesday, June 9, through Tuesday, June 15, 2021. These included: • Eight missing persons reported. Four investigations remain active.

Battlefords Chamber of Commerce officially launched a new and revitalized website Monday at www.battlefordschamber.com . According to the Chamber, the site has been in the works for a while.

The province has reported a single death in the North East zone. Provincial health officials said June 15 the person was in the 70 to 79 age group. As well, the province reported two cases of Delta variant COVID-19 in the North East zone.

With a few exceptions, anyone who is 14 days past their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at time of exposure and is asymptomatic no longer has to isolate when named as a close contact of a COVID-19 positive person.

Access to vaccinations is being stepped up this week in order to meet the first dose vaccination threshold of 70 per cent of residents 12 years and older and enable Saskatchewan to reach Step 3 of the Re-opening Roadmap and the removal of public heal