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With the widespread cancellation of events and activities in our city, Yorkton This Week is looking for some good ideas or suggestions for photos, stories or features about people in our community.

The Roy Romanow Provincial Laboratory (RRPL) now has the ability to do confirmatory testing for COVID-19. As a result, all of the new cases reported today have already been confirmed and we will no longer be reporting on presumptive cases.

Yorkton and District Community Foundation has accepted donations of $52,000

Guess what! We can celebrate that spring begins on March 19. This is the date of the spring equinox, where day and night are almost the same length.

Premier Scott Moe announces

Expanded Public Health Order for mandatory self-isolation, gatherings

It appears over the next few weeks I may just have to leave a big blank space when it comes to sports since almost every league in North America and beyond are on shutdowns because of the potential of games to be the site of transmission for COVID-19

The Patrick family had roots in Canada since 1822, when they emigrated from Ireland to Québec. They had moved to Ontario by the time Thomas Patrick was born in 1864.

If there has ever been any doubt that the marketplace for agriculture products can change overnight it has certainly been reaffirmed over the last week or 10 days.