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The provincial education sector strategic plan (ESSP) is now out there for the educators, administrators and general public to digest fully.

SaskPower may have abandoned the thought of establishing a new and firm target date for the start-up of the carbon dioxide capture, sequestration and distribution system at Boundary Dam's Unit 3, but they have released news regarding the signing of a

Weyburn Police Service officers monitored the Pro-Life/Intolerance Free Weyburn protest at Memorial Park and subsequently McKenna Hall on Friday and Saturday. There were no incidents which arose from the protest.

The issues of power generation and greater consumption were the topics of the day at the Estevan Chamber of Commerce's luncheon last week, along with the future of coal in Estevan through the carbon capture project.

A dry fall and limited amount of snowfall over the winter has resulted in a quick melt and spring runoff in the Souris Watershed around Estevan was essentially over by April.

April 7 was a relatively quiet day and evening for members of the Estevan Police Service with one complaint registered and that was concerning a group of young people who were causing a disturbance in a local park.

Not only is interest in the Saskatchewan oil patch continuing to grow, so is the landmass that is being explored in the pursuit of light, sweet crude oil. Saskatchewan's sale of petroleum and natural gas rights brought in a very strong $47.

The Warm Welcome shelter held a volunteer appreciation night last week, thanking those who donated time, resources or food to the program that houses Estevan's shelter insecure residents overnight during the cold winter months.

The leaders of the ad hoc protest group, Intolerance Free Weyburn, are happy with the dialogue that has been opened in Weyburn, and were disappointed but not surprised that the speech by controversial American speaker Peter LaBarbera was pretty much

After years of simmering on the backburner, a Regina filmmaker is moving forward with plans to make a documentary about the life and death of her brother.