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Senior levels of government are betting that infrastructure cash will help plug some of the holes COVID-19 has created in Saskatchewans local economies. The provincial and federal governments . . .

SARM President Ray Orb is calling on Ottawa to provide more support to rural municipalities to rebuild crumbli...

The Sprout: COVID-19 vaccine tops Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities agenda By Kelsey Johnson. Published on Mar 9, 2021 11:29am This vial of Pfizers COVID-19 vaccine (Photo: Nova Scotia Museum) Here’s today’s agriculture news. The Lead  The Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities, (SARM) will kick off its annual convention today. As Global News reports, the association is holding its two-day meeting virtually this year because of the coronavirus pandemic,...

  The annual Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) convention is taking place online on March 9 to 10.   When the convention debates resolutions on Tuesday afternoon there is one from the RM of South QuAppelle regarding the name change of the Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association, which represents the province’s cities, towns and villages, to Municipalities of Saskatchewan.   The resolution asks SARM to lobby the province to put an immediate stop to th...

Saskatchewan farm leaders are supporting record Crop Insurance coverage levels in 2021. Coverage rises 22 perc...

With cracks in the organization that unites them, the new president of Municipalities of Saskatchewan (MOS) is looking to do a little construction wor...

Even though all the results are not in, it is not too soon to debrief on the municipal elections of 2020.

“With another term ahead of us, I wanted to offer all our members the dedication and commitment they deserve, and I decided the best way to do that was run for president,” Hayward said. “I want to focus on putting our members and their needs first and being a strong voice for Saskatchewan hometowns.” Hayward is currently the Municipalities of Saskatchewan’s vice-president of towns. He will be running against incumbent Gordon Barnhart, the mayor of Saltcoats. The election will be hel...

By Jim Smalley Jan 24, 2021 7:31 PM Saskatchewan Rural Municipalities have expressed extreme disappointment with cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline by U.S. President Joe Biden. SARM president Ray Orb says the project was expected to create over 1,000 construction jobs and additional property taxes to municipalities in Saskatchewan. “Of course, some of that filters back to taxation, some of our rural municipalities in Saskatchewan are going to be at a disadvantage because they ac...

Now, closer to home Yorkton This Week has learned Saltcoats Mayor, and president of the Municipalities of Saskatchewan Gordon Barnhart, has also gone south. "I believe he is in Hawaii from the information Ive been able to glean," said Gerald Aalbers, Vice-President of Cities with the provincial association, and Mayor of Lloydminster. Asked if Barnharts choice was questionable given suggested protocols for travel Aalbers replied, "I think its an individual decision as outlined by the provincial...