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The Roxy Theatre erected in 1928, the Bank of Commerce erected in 1916, and the Hudson's Bay Company in 1912. Broadway Street East. The postcard is from the Harold and Wilma Wilkinson fonds. Photo taken around 1930.

The Society for the Involvement of Good Neighbours held its annual community appreciation barbecue September 17.

A 20-year-old B.C. woman has been acquitted of possession of the proceeds of cocaine trafficking in Yorkton Provincial Court. Madelaine Esquivel was arrested in January, one of 20 individuals caught up in a five-month multi-agency RCMP sting.

Last week, social media in the Yorkton area was abuzz with rumours of a possible bear sighting in the Ravine Ecological Preserve. Phil de Vos, one of Yorkton's bylaw officers, said it got a little blown out of proportion.

As regular readers may have picked up on over the weeks of this column, I have a passion for several game genres, one of those being miniature skirmish games.

On April 20, 1999, the world looked on in horror as details of a massacre at a high school in Colorado came to light. In the aftermath, we found out there were 13 dead and 27 injured.

Yorkton Council approved $50,000 in new money to cover heated storage for heavy equipment in 2014, the first year of a two-year contract which will cost the city near $120,000 over the term.

Every year, Canadians celebrate what they love about their culture during the last weekend in September.

A new bee species has been named after Royal Saskatchewan Museum (RSM) Curator of Invertebrate Zoology, Dr. Cory Sheffield.

Yorkton Council amended the City's Zoning Bylaw at its regular meeting Monday to make way for a new medical centre and condominium complex. The new facility will be built at 16 and 20 Gladstone Avenue South.