Estevan Mercury

The auditorium at the Southeast College’s Estevan campus hosted an excavator this week, and a dozer, and an articulated dump truck. And yet no diesel was consumed, nor ground disturbed.

Three significant fires posed a threat to different communities in the southeast over the past few days. Estevan firefighters assisted with battling the flames alongside local fire departments in Bienfait, Torquay and in the Alameda area.

If ever we’d had an unusual Thanksgiving holiday weekend, it was this year. While we traditionally celebrated with three families together (son and family, nephew and his wife and Hubby and I), this year the meals were spread out over the weekend.

There are 87 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on Nov. 6, bringing the provincial total to date to 3,623. Five of the new cases are in the southeast region. One of the cases is in Southeast Zone 4, which includes Estevan.

The new Estevan Eclipse Downhole Solutions U18 AAA Bears hockey club has announced how they will manage ticket sales for their regular season games to start the season.

Members of the Estevan Police Service (EPS) and Estevan Emergency Medical Services responded to the report of a vehicle-pedestrian collision in north central Estevan Thursday.

Environment Canada has issued a winter storm watch for southeast Saskatchewan, including the Estevan and Carlyle regions. According to the advisory, issued at 4:36 a.m. Friday, a major winter storm is to impact southern Saskatchewan this weekend.

The opposition New Democratic Party (NDP) is calling for immediate action to increase COVID-19 testing capacity and reduce class sizes to slow the spread of the pandemic, due to “the alarming increase in COVID-19 cases in Saskatchewan in the past wee

There are 129 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on Nov. 5, bringing the provincial total to date to 3,536 cases. The total is a single-day record for the province. There is just one new case from the southeast region.

Carlyle RCMP is investigating a theft incident. On Oct. 30, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. oil was stolen from an oil site just south of Redvers. Sixty to barrels of oil were stolen from site worth approximately $2,300.