Local Arts

The 26th edition of the Saskatchewan Country Music Association Awards will be remembered as the year of Jessica Moskaluke.

Ron Waddell is a familiar name to local area country music fans as a long time on air personality at GX94 Radio.

Murray Yung has long been a supporter of country music.

It was another successful Saskatchewan Country Music Association Awards night for Codie Prevost. The Rose Valley, SK. product walked away with both Single of the Year and Male Vocalist of the Year honours.

Storage tanks at the rear of the Sask Power Corporation building are on fire February 26, 1944. The fire was spectacular, but brought under control. Damage was less than $1,000.

Despite ongoing softness in the oil market and a stagnant economy in most of the country, the federal budget announced last week by Joe Oliver contained a lot of goodies for a targeted group of taxpayers.

Christ the Teacher Catholic Schools has promoted one of its own to fill the superintendent role vacated when Barbara MacKesey was promoted to director of education. Trevor Baker is currently the principal of St. Paul’s School.

While Yorkton Council passed the City’s 2015 budget in later 2014, it set its tax policy and mill rate. Council approved the 2015 budget which required a 1.98 per cent general tax increase, a 1.

The Western Conservation Law Enforcement Academy (WCLEA) will call Saskatchewan home for the next two years.

The City of Yorkton will participate in a Regional Transportation Study with the provincial Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure.