Estevan Mercury

There was an interesting article on the Western Producer website. It was about a speaker encouraging rural area businesses to get involved with the social media craze that has engulfed the world.

I was thinking about how instant our world is these days. Everything seems to happen so quickly. And then I started thinking about relationships, and how they are just as rapid as a trip to the McDonald's drive-through.

Canada is either getting more peaceful or other countries are becoming less so. The former would be ideal. Canada jumped three spots to rank as the fourth most peaceful country on the planet, according to the 2012 Global Peace Index.

If you're a Major League Baseball player with a need for career rejuvenation, the Toronto Blue Jays may be the team to join.

The Estevan RCMP detachment has announced the driver of a car that collided with a train Sunday in Macoun has passed away.

Estevan property owners are being asked to do their part to help the City dig out of its infrastructure hole. City council voted Monday night to raise property taxes by one mill, a move that will give them roughly $380,000 more to work with in 2012.

A local man was sentenced Monday to federal penitentiary time after pleading guilty to trafficking cocaine and money laundering. Bobby Jo Dickau has been on remand for the last couple of weeks since turning himself in to the Estevan Police Service.

A report of a break and enter incident in progress on the city's south side on the night of June 5 turned out to be a domestic dispute that members of the Estevan Police Service (EPS) managed to diffuse before it escalated to a more serious level.

The Editor: MP Ed Komarnicki likes to say that the Conservative Party supports our troops. The facts say otherwise.