Opinion

As a local newspaper the role of this small space each week is to provide food-for-thought of particular relevance of readers in Yorkton and area. That means focusing on issues relating to our community.

It’s been a while since a provincial election was decided by an exclusively rural Saskatchewan issue.

Dear Editor: The Royal Canadian Legion and its 300,000 members are the guardians of Remembrance in Canada.

Dear Editor: The York Lake Golf & Country Club is celebrating 90 years of operation in 2016. A number of events are planned, but a very special event, called “The Last Putt” will be held on August 6, 2016.

Alcohol strikes again. As I write this Monday afternoon, I can safely say that, as I can pretty much every docket day in Yorkton court.

Sustainable development means different things to different people. The concept was popularized in 1987 by the groundbreaking Brundtland Commission report to the United Nations, “Our Common Future”.

Make a cup of tea and sit down for a few minutes.

Joe Jackson – Fast Forward Every time I see a new Joe Jackson release, I think, well, what will this one sound like? He has taken us on many varied ambitious musical journeys over the years, starting with the “angry at the world” first couple of albu

A few years back, I brought my antique Singer treadle machine to my workplace, a large, sparsely furnished office. It didn’t fit our small home anymore, but I wasn’t quite ready to part with it. My mother taught me to sew on a treadle.

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.