Opinion

"My background is in design, decorating and photography, among other creative skills. Even as a child I didn't know what kind of an artist I would be but I knew I would be an artist.

I sit here typing this as I have been asked this question about 10 times in the past week having not been asked it in months.

Dear Editor In response to "My two cents worth " (News-Optimist, April 2) Parking is not a fundamental human right.

Lawns are among our landscape's biggest water consumers. To look good, traditional lawn grasses need more water than is available through natural precipitation on the prairies.

The communication lines have been hopping the past couple days and it's all about what the spring thaw is going to do to our highways and byways. The City of North Battleford's missive is titled "Pothole season has arrived.

History and Commentary from a Prairie Perspective

This week, the world of film criticism lost its most prominent and popular voice with the passing of Roger Ebert.

Soon after the new NationsWEST Field House opened at the Credit Union CUPlex in North Battleford the News-Optimist website poll asked readers how they would be using the new facility. Discouragingly 64.

This weather is sure feeling like spring. We are enjoying it but, holding our breaths in case there are more surprises coming. Did the weatherman predict this last blizzard? Once the blizzard was started, then he reported a blizzard.

For years, Saskatchewan was listed as a "have-not" province, and the place in Canada and the world, really, where people were "from" but not a place that many stayed to live in.