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Yorkton was to have its first bank in 1897, when V.H. Pickering & Co., a private company headquartered in Minnedosa, Manitoba opened a branch at #21 Front Street North. The Manager, C.W.R.

Canailles Manger du Bois 8-out-of-10 I'm having another one of those moments when I wished I had paid closer attention in French class throughout my schooling career.

Bob Maloney is Yorkton's new Mayor. Maloney, who was sworn in at a special meeting of Council Monday, won in what has to be termed a landslide victory polling 3,590 votes or 94.

Angela Shaw has her good days and her bad days. "That's MS [multiple sclerosis]," she said. Both the good days and the bad ones have gotten better for Angela since she met Toffee, her five-year-old British Great Dane service dog.

It was down in the woodland on last Hallowe'en, Where silence and darkness had built them a lair, That I felt the dim presence of her, the unseen, And heard her still step on the ghost-haunted air.

Yorkton fiddling fans got a real treat on October 25 at the Royal Canadian Legion Hall.

When it comes to fishing a new lure is about as enticing an item to the fisherman as a chunk of bait is to the fish. When the lure company has a Saskatchewan connection it, well it is just a little more intriguing, at least for me.

The Western Financial Group Yorkton Regional High School Male Student of the Month for September is Braden Oystrick. Braden is a "co-operative, humorous" young man who achieves excellence in the things he takes on.

All public influenza immunization clinics in Saskatchewan, including those throughout the Sunrise Health Region, are on hold until further notice.

The 2012 Throne Speech was delivered last week by Lieutenant Governor Vaughn Solomon Schofield.