Estevan Mercury

A committee struck to determine how much the members of council and Mayor Roy Ludwig should be paid over their four-year term has completed their report. Two-thirds of the remuneration committee were before council at the May 6 regular meeting.

For a team that often tied its own noose last year with errors, the Southeast Legacy Twins played two extremely clean games on Saturday and came away with a split to show for it.

After everything Trevor Chambers went through, one of the toughest things he had to do was look his boss in the face and tell him he wouldn't be able to go back to work. A big part of his personal identity was his job as a motorman on a drilling rig.

The Estevan Bruins Alumni will hold their fifth annual hole in one/par three golf tournament on May 25. The tournament will take place at the TS&M Woodlawn Golf Club.

It's still going to be Estevan Idol. But this year, a secondnight segment, let's call it Estevan's Got Talent (EGT), will take centre stage for one night at the annual Estevan Exhibition. That means audition additions too.

And then there were three. Estevan Bruins president Jeff Pierson confirmed Friday that the team's executive is down to three people on their short list in the search for the team's next head coach and general manager.

Although they lost quite a few core players from last year's provincial championship team, the Estevan Sherritt Coal Haulers believe they can make another run at a title in 2013.

Estevan property owners are going to have to dig deep when they pay their taxes this year.

Thirty-two years after they formed in Los Angeles, the group once described as the world's most notorious rock band proved Saturday night they can still bring it.

The annual Coal Country Run was staged in Bienfait on Saturday, with the 141 participants enjoying great weather for the event. The 10-kilometre division saw 62 people register, while 54 ran the five-kilometre race.