Local Arts

The Yorkton Film Festival has announced the first film in the continuation of its 2014-2015 Open Cinema series. The festival will screen Still Rowdy After All These Years on February 3 at the Yorkton Public Library. Discussion will follow.

The Town of Ituna will benefit from upgraded water supply infrastructure thanks to joint federal and provincial funding announced by Minister of State for Western Economic Diversification Michelle Rempel, and Last Mountain-Touchwood MLA Glen Hart on

The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) in Saskatchewan and Lone Tree community pasture shareholders have signed a pilot partnership agreement to work together to develop a guide for future management and long term conservation of community pastures.

The search for the next President and Chief Executive Officer of Parkland College is expanding.

A western is like an old pair of cowboy boots, familiar and comfortable to get into, at least for this reader. So when a new western comes out, one with a strong Saskatchewan element, I immediately put it on the personal ‘must read’ list.

Two Yorkton men remain in custody following a drug bust on January 16. Robert Friesen, 30, and Michael Winter, 38, made their first court appearances January 19 facing multiple marijuana and cannabis resin trafficking and possession charges.

A 40-year-old Yorkton man accused of uttering threats to harm RCMP officers and blow up the local detachment will undergo psychiatric testing following a court appearance in Yorkton January 19.

The trial of Jaycee Mildenberger for the 2009 murder of Gwenda Gregory has been rescheduled for the summer. Proceedings were to begin with jury selection January 12, but the case was adjourned to June 1.

National Non-Smoking Week is January 18-24, 2015.

A Yorkton man who police say committed an aggravated assault last May and eluded them for seven months before being arrested in Kelowna, BC two weeks ago is out on bail.