Local Arts

Mayor Bob Maloney and Kathleen Gibson cut the ribbon for the Yorkton Legion’s home on Aug. 24. The Legion moved to a new location on 387 B Parkview Road earlier this year.

The Great Benjamins Circus rolled into Yorkton last week for two days of death-defying tricks and impressive stunts. The circus occupied the parking lot outside the Gallagher Centre on Aug.

Yorkton Council received and filed a report titled “The Local Government Elections Act, 2015 Amendment – Proposed Election Date Extension” at its regular meeting Monday. Municipal elections are currently scheduled for Oct.

A former Yorkton gynecologist is staring down a sentence of two-and-a-half years in prison after being found guilty of sexual assault. Mohammad Haque was convicted on four counts of sexual assualt (out of a total of 16 charges) back in May.

Every once in a while you lay your hands on a game not exactly expecting too much from it, and it simply blows your socks off. Pairs, by designers James Ernest and Paul Peterson, is just such a game.

MLA Greg Ottenbreit and the Sasktachewan Government and General Employees’ Union (SGEU) traded barbs this past week, spurred on by a new billboard in Yorkton. SGEU recently installed a billboard sign in Yorkton.

If you like you country spiced with rock and energy then you'd best mark Saturday, Aug. 25 on your calendar. That is the day Blackjack Billy hits the stage at the Painted Hand Casino.

The sound of horsepower could be heard across Yorkton on Aug. 17 and 18 during the Thunder in the Parkland Truck and Tractor Pulls.

Yorkton Fire Protective Services and the Salvation Army Food Bank worked together with the Extinguish Hunger campaign, an effort to put food back on the shelves at the food bank in Yorkton.

Yorkton Councillor Aaron Kienle was back in school recently. Kienle, in his first term on council, attended the Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association Summer School held at the University of Regina.