Estevan Mercury

The melt is on in the southeast where spring has apparently sprung. With warm weather throughout last week, the annual spring runoff is well underway across this corner of the province.

The Estevan and District Music Festival kicked off last week as youngsters from around southeast Saskatchewan but a year of hard work to the test.

The Estevan Blue Rock junior midget Bruins took advantage of home ice in Game 1 of their league playoff semifinals as they defeated the Regina Blue 9-3 on March 15.

The Estevan Westmorland peewee AA Bruins dropped both of their semifinal league playoff games to the Swift Current Broncos to finish their season.

The Estevan Power Tech midget AA Panthers has the edge in the final of their league playoffs as they defeated the Regina Capitals 7-3 at the Civic Auditorium on March.12.

Nine students from the Estevan campus of the Southeast Regional College collected nearly $7,000 in scholarships on March 12 during a brief ceremony held in the campus conference centre in the Saskatchewan Energy Training Institute building.

So, let’s get into this great pollution debate on the right level. Everyone is harping on the fact that Saskatchewan is still emitting too much carbon dioxide compared with our population.

The competition was stiff, but the Estevan Comprehensive School’s senior boys basketball team wasn’t intimidated.

The Editor, Why should we Canadians be concerned about what the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu said to Americans and the Republican Congress, in a speech he delivered on March 3 of this year? Not long ago our prime minister, Stephen Har

Perhaps you live in one of the Saskatchewan communities fortunate enough to have recently received one of 20 new doctors who came to our province. If you do, you’re likely to know about it already.