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Carol Reeve paints the finishing touches of a mural for Crocus 80 Theatre, as she works on two pieces at the Tommy Douglas Performing Arts Centre for the upcoming centennial play "Circle the Crops".

A special time capsule will be opened during Weyburn's centennial, when the class of 1988 meets for a 25-year reunion. The time capsule was created in 1988 by the graduating class.

The pieces are coming together quite efficiently, on time and within budget. That was the word coming from Robert Watson, SaskPower's CEO, who spoke with The Mercury Tuesday morning.

City council has given first reading to a bylaw that would clear the way for what may be one of the most important residential developments to hit Estevan in years.

Murphy's law has been seen in all its glory ever since a fire and resulting smoke damage closed Estevan's Dairy Queen last June. For more than a year, the restaurant's ownership was held up by speed bumps and unavoidable hurdles.

Two 15-year-old boys were reported as being seen entering vehicles in the north central area of the city on the night of July 26.

The one-woman play RiderGirl pays tribute to the greatest fans on the planet. Born in Carlyle, and raised in Rosetown and Regina, Colleen Sutton bleeds green.

An Estevan man will be spending a year in jail after leading police on a high-speed chase around the Estevan area and slamming into the police cruiser at one point.

Although there is clearly more work to do, Estevan's crime numbers are mostly trending in the right direction, according to the 2012 police reported crime statistics.

Weyburn historian and lifelong resident Jim Nedelcov shares a variety of memories that speak of a former time, but a time that helped form Weyburn today