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It was certainly a different format than it’s been in the past, but several students from the Estevan Comprehensive School earned medals at the recent high school Skills Canada provincials, which were held virtually this year.

The Government of Saskatchewan is continuing to invest in the improvement of rural roads through its Rural Integrated Roads for Growth (RIRG) program.

Initial ground work and construction is now underway for the Pesâkâstêw Solar Project in the RM of Weyburn, southwest of the city.

SaskPower crews have been dispatched to a power outage west of Estevan. In a tweet sent at 5 p.m., SaskPower said the crews are determining the cause and repair time for the outage.

Seeding operations may be largely wrapped up by the May long weekend with the warm, dry weather, unless some forecasted weather stalls the planting for a few days. According to Sask.

The carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility at SaskPower’s Boundary Dam Power Station captured 68,277 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) during the month of April.

The Saskatchewan real estate market continues to build momentum and set another sales record in April. Real estate sales and new listings were both up in Weyburn, along with sales volume.

Now that it has wrapped up its inaugural Top Gun trap shooting event, the Estevan Oilfield Technical Society (OTS) has started making plans for its biggest event of the year.

SGI will start to mail out approximately 709,000 rebate cheques this week. The mailout will take place over the next three weeks. Because there is such a large volume of cheques, customers could receive cheques anytime between mid-May and mid-June.

The Rural Municipality of Estevan No.5, Rural Municipality of Coalfields No. 4, and the Town of Bienfait have announced the formation of the Southeast Sask. Economic Partnership (SSEP).