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EAST CENTRAL — Students throughout the Horizon School Division have begun receiving vaccine consent forms and information packages in preparation for student vaccinations in June.

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Battlefords RCMP responded to 445 calls for service from Wednesday, May 19 to Tuesday May 25. These included 15 missing persons reported, 14 assaults, and six break and enters.

​A walk-in COVID-19 vaccination clinic will be taking place in Nipawin today. The clinic takes place from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Friday, May 28 at the Evergreen Centre. The vaccine used is Moderna.

NIPAWIN — A Nipawin business owner is calling the Town of Nipawin’s decision to source their t-shirts from a Tisdale-based business a ‘tragedy.

What have you done during this COVID-19 pandemic? Sophie Parkinson, age 93 years, has been having her own, one-woman quilting bee, making lap quilts for long-term care residents to use on their wheelchairs.

New cases (May 27) New Active Humboldt area (Central East 1) 1 13 Kelvington-Punnichy area (Central East 2) 1 55 Nipawin area (North East 1) 0 0 Melfort area (North East 2) 2 13 Tisdale-Hudson Bay area (North East 3) 0 6 Vaccinations (May 27) Vaccine

A man arrested in a dramatic takedown by an RCMP tactical unit flown in two CH-146 Griffon helicopters to an isolated cabin to rescue a girl, is headed to trial.

Vaccines Reported An additional 9,427 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been given in Saskatchewan, bringing the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 679,274.

Momentum keeps building for Biggar’s revitalization project, which landed a big time Hollywood endorsement this past week.