Local News

A public hearing was held on May 25 with the purpose of discussing the proposed passing of a zoning bylaw.

With many areas of the province receiving excess moisture this spring, the Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation will be extending seeding deadlines for 2011, as it did in 2010.

Prime Minister Steven Harper recently made some changes to the appointments of Parliamentary Secretaries that allowed some new faces and newly elected MP's to experience being part of the daily functioning of Government.

On 2011-05-29 at 35 minutes past midnight the RCMP in Carnduff received a complaint of a 19 year male being struck by a vehicle in the Village of Alameda.

Road bans are scheduled to continue until June 7 in the RM of Estevan. That was council's decision at its May 23 meeting.

A little change goes a long way. That is what the students of Manor School found out during a recent Pennies for Patients drive in support of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada.

On May 18, spring seeding began in earnest in the Oxbow area, but farmers weren't the only ones out on the land. Had you visited the recently opened Oxbow Prairie Horizons school that day you would have seen 63 industrious Gr.

Maryfield is normally a quiet little town, but on the morning of May 26, the silence was shattered as emergency vehicle sirens wailed across the area.

Whitebear Education Complex held its third annual inter-school Pow Wow on May 19 with more than 200 people in attendance. People from throughout the area took in a day filled with dancing, drumming, singing, and honouring the aboriginal culture.

Report from the Weyburn Police Service for the week of May 23 to 29: *On May 29, police were called to investigate a report of mischief to a parked vehicle. The suspect had thrown a bicycle onto the vehicle. The matter is under investigation.