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The inaugural Ebenezer Christmas Tradeshow was held Saturday in the former Ebenezer School. Proceeds from the one day event were for the Ebenezer Fire Department.

Saskatchewan job numbers hit a record high of 540,000 people for the month of November, according to the Labour Force survey released by Statistics Canada today. There were 15,800 more people working in the province compared to a year ago.

A bill introduced in the legislature recently will move the control of the development and operations of the Global Transportation Hub (GTH) from municipal to provincial jurisdiction to further ensure the business success of GTH clients.

A Manitoba company in particular was instrumental in getting the word out that going into cattle was smart and a money maker. They were Gordon & Ironside, later Gordon, Ironside & Fares.

A Harvest Star Christmas Harvest Star Collective 7.5-out-of-10 What an exciting time of year! With the end of the world looming, and Christmas just around the world, the festive spirit is definitely in the air.

It's great to be busy, unless it can be avoided. Police, firefighters and emergency medical technicians were kept on their toes last week as weather made Yorkton roads hazardous.

The fragrance of steaming Christmas pudding is an indelible memory of the season for most of us, something worthy of mention by Dickens in his famed book the Christmas Carol.

Thom Barker will be live-tweeting from Court of Queen's Bench in the case of Melvin Dale Koroluk who is accused of luring and abducting an 11-year-old girl from the Yorkton Exhibition in July 2011. Follow @yorktonthisweek on Twitter.

Parks, Culture and Sport Minister Kevin Doherty recently announced that the Royal Saskatchewan Museum (RSM) has launched a dynamic new website, www.royalsaskmuseum.ca/.

Following a devastating fire November 27, York-Sask Dry Cleaners will re-opened in a temporary location on Monday.