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SARM President David Marit and Vice President Jim Hallick will appear before the Standing Committee on Agriculture in Ottawa today. They will ask for a more defined process in the de-listing of producer car grain loading sites whereby a producer or a rural municipality may have the opportunity t...(Read Article)

The deadline to submit resolutions for the upcoming SARM Midterm Convention is fast approaching.  They must be received by October 14th to be dealt with at the convention scheduled for November 9th and 10th in Regina.  The deadline is a month closer to the convention this year due to t...(Read Article)

The announcement that the Federal Government will be providing the Canadian pork industry with a three tiered aid program was hailed today as a positive step by the President of the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities. David Marit said, "The Saskatchewan hog industry is in trouble a...(Read Article)

The Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities today expressed its pleasure with the announcement that 72 infrastructure projects have been approved under the Communities Component of the Federal governments Building Canada Fund. SARM President David Marit said he was “very glad to hear th...(Read Article)

SARM welcomed two new staff members in May.  Curtis McManus joined the SARM staff on May 1, 2009 as a Policy Analyst.  He will be assisting SARM’s Director of Agriculture Policy, Laurel Feltin, with rural and agriculture policy issues, presentations, meetings and keeping the SARM Board...(Read Article)

An affordable housing project, an urban native prairie park, a rural arts and culture program, a short-line railway business, and a rejuvenated recreation center, were front and center at the third annual Saskatchewan Municipal Awards today. The municipalities that spearheaded these projects wer...(Read Article)

The finalists have been announced for the third annual Saskatchewan Municipal Awards Program. A total of 28 nominations were received for the 2009 awards and were judged by an independent selection committee consisting of; Bob Linner, former City Manager City of Regina; Murray Mandryk, political...(Read Article)

Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) welcomes today’s signing of the Growing Forward bilateral and contribution agreements by the provincial and federal Ministers of Agriculture.  The agreement calls for $216 million in non-Business Risk Management programming over the next fo...(Read Article)

Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) appreciates the Federal Government’s continued commitment to municipal infrastructure funding with the Gas Tax Fund.  As announced in the 2008 Federal Budget, rural municipalities will receive approximately $11.9 million under the program i...(Read Article)

Close to 1900 guests and delegates representing 288 rural municipalities attended SARM’s 104th Annual Convention at TCU Place in Saskatoon.    His Honour, the Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan, Dr. Gordon Barnhart, opened the convention with a kind welcome to guests and ...(Read Article)