Estevan Mercury

The southeast corner of the province saw some wonderful lightning shows last night.

There were 27 new cases of COVID-19 registered in Saskatchewan on Aug. 13, bringing the total to 1,511. The new cases are located in the South West (18), South Central (4), Saskatoon (3) and Regina (2) regions.

Despite extremely sluggish drilling activity in Saskatchewan’s oilpatch, the Aug. 11 Crown land sale for petroleum and natural gas rights brought in $2.4 million.

The Carlyle RCMP sent out a notification reminding the community to be wary of scams seeking payment of money. “In the last 24 hours there has been $10,000 lost to scams. These fraudsters may insist for your personal information e.g.

While the last few months have been a challenging time, Senchuk Ford has still been selling vehicles, and now they’re looking forward to the arrival of the 2021 models.

Cheers: Cheers to Tara and Mae from the Estevan Medical Group. They do a wonderful job and they conduct themselves with professionalism. It means a lot to the patients. Cheers to the arrival of another new physician to the community.

I was in the pit grandstand for the Estevan Motor Speedway’s program on Aug. 1. A woman who was at the races with one of the drivers expressed her surprise that she hasn’t seen many people wearing masks since she arrived in Estevan.

Penta Completions Estevan Minor Football is optimistic it will have games for its teams this year, and the squads have been getting ready for the upcoming season. President Kevin Mortenson said everything is still a go for 2020.

The Estevan area was sitting at +33 C and a severe thunderstorm watch for most of the day. on Wednesday. And just as Environment Canada issued a severe thunderstorm warning for the areas west of Estevan, some fields received a major hit.

Saskatchewan NDP education critic Regina-Lakeview MLA Carla Beck said on Aug.