Carlyle Observer

Drilling rig activity has started to slowly pick up in Saskatchewan’s oilpatch, but the numbers are still very low compared to any point over the last decade. On Sept. 11, Rig Locator (riglocator.ca) showed nine rigs working in Saskatchewan.

I’ve been thinking a lot about my dad lately. I think much of it has to do with how the schedule for sports has played out. Like the Indy 500 running uncharacteristically late in the season so the memory is fresh.

When the current St. Joseph’s Hospital was built in Estevan in 1991, it had an addictions treatment centre in its northeast wing.

There are clearly differences between rural voters and urban votes in this province.

Seven new cases, five in hospital, four more recoveries

Carlyle’s two hockey players currently in the NHL returned home on Saturday.

Fuel Good Day was back again this year. On Sept. 15, Carlyle’s co-op gas bar was holding the traditional fundraiser. For every litre of fuel purchased on that day at Carlyle’s co-op gas stations, the Federated Co-operatives Ltd.

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is reminding all travellers who are celebrating the upcoming holidays of Rosh Hashanah (September 18 to 20, 2020) and Yom Kippur (September 27 and 28, 2020), that travel restrictions are still in place at all

Farmers made significant harvest progress again this week. Sixty-two per cent of the crop has been combined, up from 43 per cent last week and well ahead of the five-year (2015-2019) average of 48 per cent.

Carnduff – Like a giant Tyrannosaurus Rex tearing through its prey, a 52-ton excavator equipped with large hydraulic shears tore through the last skid-mounted building of what was once a Saskatchewan based drilling rig on Sept. 14.