Estevan Mercury

You know the game is important if we're willing to get up at 5:30 a.m. on a Sunday to watch it and government temporarily wiggles laws to allow bars to open really, really early to accommodate the fans.

Many local athletes came home from the 2014 Saskatchewan Winter Games last week with a new friend hanging around their neck.

For fans of the Olympics, Rio 2016 seems far away, but the time will fly. The same holds true for Estevan 2016. With the closing of the 2014 Winter Games in Prince Albert on Saturday, Estevan now carries the torch as the next Saskatchewan Games host.

The Estevan Apex Bruins won two of their last three games on the road to ensure they would finish in fourth place in the South Saskatchewan Minor Hockey League standings.

A number of former employees and local businesses are among those who have been left in the lurch by the closure of Do All Industries. As was reported in the Mercury last week, the local company was placed into receivership Feb.

There is going to be a slight delay in the official opening target date for the Boundary Dam clean coal project, although just how long it will be is not known exactly.

The process of developing a school calendar for the next academic year in the South East Cornerstone Public School Division is down to the small details now. Trustees attending the public school division's meeting on Feb.

The long wait is over for Windthorst native Lyndon Dayman.

With a 4-1 loss to the Battlefords North Stars on Friday, the odds of the CanElson Drilling Estevan Bruins catching the Humboldt Broncos for sixth place in the SJHL got slimmer.

Marc Casavant confirmed last week that his rather sudden letter of impending resignation had nothing to do with any existing situation or developments in the South East Cornerstone School Division, but rather, it was a family-based decision.