Local Arts

Gordon Barnhart of Saltcoats is the newest president of the Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association (SUMA). When delegates at this year’s convention met in Saskatoon this week one of the first orders of business was to elect a new president.

When newly minted Oscar nominee Theodore Ushev took home Best of Festival in 2011, he said one of his goals with his film, The Lipsett Diaries, was to get people to go back and look at the work of Arthur Lipsett.

As promised last week, this time around the game of the week is Wildebeest Chess. Wildebeest Chess is a chess variant created by R. Wayne Schmittberger in 1987.

Though it may be the middle of winter, the Ministry of Parks, Culture and Sport is already looking ahead to summertime.

Out came the notebooks, paper and pens, while groups began gathering all over Saskatchewan to start writing books about their communities.

Every person has a story to tell, and over the 150 years since confederation, Canadians have filled the country with their stories. Heather Cline has embarked on a 10 year project to hear those stories and paint the places where they happened.

Parkland College’s Trades and Technology Centre (TTC) in Yorkton, in its second full year of operation, is a daily hub of activity.

Arrest warrants were issued for the following people at Yorkton Provincial Court Monday, January 30, 2017: Stephanie Ann Hill Anyone with information can call Yorkton RCMP at 306-786-2400, Yorkton Provincial Court at 306-786-1400 or their local polic

The health regions in this province are going away, replaced by a single health authority, and Minister of Rural and Remote Health Greg Ottenbreit spoke at a recent Chamber of Commerce luncheon about the changes coming into effect for the province.

Canada and Saskatchewan Fund 28 Projects to Improve Water, Wastewater and Transit Infrastructure Across the Province Investing in public infrastructure helps ensure that Canadians and their families have safe water to drink, wastewater systems they c