Estevan Mercury

When I first started having babies (some 14 years ago), many people told me to savour the moments and to make sure I enjoyed my children when they were young. They told me that time flies by so quickly.

Mother's Day is coming up, and I now have a good reason to fret over it. It's something I've never done before. I'm not the kind of person who worries about these special days. Christmas never stresses me out.

The federal government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, is an increasing mystery in terms of how it deals with agriculture.

Update: The Mercury has learned that the dog service at North Portal has been restored. For more on this story please see Wednesday's edition of The Mercury.

A variety of nuisance issues as well as a number of more hard-pressing issues absorbed the time and attention of the Estevan Police Service (EPS) personnel this past week.

Two members of the Estevan Comprehensive School senior badminton team are headed to provincials. Carter Daoust and Harley Doerr posted a 3-0 record at the regional tournament held Saturday in Wilcox.

News and notes from the April 30 regular meeting of Estevan city council.

About 80 Roche Percee residents packed into Al Turnbull's auto body shop last Thursday to hear the redevelopment proposal for the village.

After making four separate drug deals to undercover police, a local man received 20 months in jail. Jason Lunn was arrested last June, charged with trafficking cocaine and possessing the proceeds of crime. Guilty pleas were entered on Jan.

Every year the Royal Bank Cup comes around and every year the British Columbia representatives are regarded as something of a favourite, aside from those rare times when they don't get past the Alberta champions.