Opinion

Taxpayers in Yorkton are again facing an increase in their property taxes. At the regular meeting of Yorkton Council the combined operating and capital budgets will see a hike of 3.9 per cent, if the budgets are passed as presented Monday.

Ever since human beings discovered tobacco, the most potent source of nicotine, a ridiculously addictive parasympathomimetic alkaloid, i.e., stimulant, we have sought to develop more efficient and pleasurable delivery mechanisms for it.

I hear a lot of people complaining that judges are too easy on criminals. This is why that is not true: criminals are people.

View from the Cheap Seats is kind of an extension of the newsroom. Whenever our three regular reporters, Calvin Daniels, Thom Barker and Randy Brenzen are in the building together, it is frequently a site of heated debate.

Welcome to Week CLXXXVI of ‘Fishing Parkland Shorelines’. Like most of us I am a novice fisherman, loving to fish, but far from an expert.

The Yorkton and District Horticultural Society held their Directors meeting recently, and part of that meeting was devoted to planning the program for 2016! Plans are still being finalized, but it will be an exciting year! As always, interested garde

Do you have friends on your list you are never sure what to get? You know the couple you coffee with weekly, or that you share a cabin with in the summer. Well a social game can be just the ticket as a Santa gift.

Merry Christmas. For most of us, those words trip off the tongue at this time of year. But every year, some people have no Christmas jolly. They’re not decking their halls or preparing gifts. Since last Christmas they’ve lost a loved one or several.

Tom Jones – Long Lost Suitcase Tom Jones? Yes that Tom Jones. The skin tight pant wearing, panty projectile dodging, welsh crooner we all know and love. He’s back with the third album in his trilogy of cover tunes, and this one is the best, by far.