Estevan Mercury

How's this for a learning adventure? A recent report in a national publication provided information about an interesting project developed by a teacher of 10 and 11-year-old students.

The most daunting challenge right now for Larry Ursu, manager of transportation and fleet services for the South East Cornerstone Public School Division, is finding enough drivers for the division's 163 school buses.

There's an old adage which says to speed up, sometimes you need to slow down. That seems to be the motto of Estevan city council right now.

Faced with a deficit of over $800,000, city council took out the big knives and began cutting last week. Council held two days of budget deliberations with the focus on the capital portion of the budget last Wednesday.

News and notes from the Dec. 10 and Dec. 17 regular meetings of Estevan city council

Colours mean different things to different people at different times, but on the Day of Pink, pink is all about respect.

If you thought the office party was a time to relax, then you're wrong. It's a time to be vigilant, paranoid and in bed respectably by 10:30. It's the holiday season, so everybody is in the midst of coping with the office Christmas party.

There's a new social media on the block and I don't like it. Well, I shouldn't say new, since it's been around for long enough that Facebook has bought it. But it's new to me and so, so foreign.