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Major projects hamper Melville’s cash flow

Melville City Council held a regular council meeting on August 15 at 6 p.m.RecommendationsCouncil covered previous business from the July 18 workshop regarding membership...

Balcarres Hospital lab service will be restored in phases

Laboratory services at the Balcarres hospital have been curtailed indefinitely.Although council initially had been led to believe that the lab is closing permanently, Health...

Melville golf course used in part of children’s story

After two decades practising law in Toronto, former Advance sportswriter Robert Kreklewich recently retired to pursue a lifelong dream of being a writer.Even though...

Science Centre Outreach program comes to Melville

The Melville Regional Library was the host of the Saskatchewan Science Centre Outreach Program on July 28.The program was part of the library’s reading...

SARM President says federal government’s Fertilizer Emission Reduction Target sets a...

It has been a difficult year for farmers in Saskatchewan.Increased costs combined with supply chain issues that made necessary inputs difficult (sometimes impossible) to...

Film making provides kids alternative outlet

Indigenous actor and motivational speaker Kyle Nobess spent two days in Fort Qu’Appelle at the end of July helping 15 teens create a short...

Beck in Melville for hospital tour

Leader of the Sasktatchewan NDP and official Opposition, Carla Beck, stopped in Melville on July 20 for a tour of St. Peter’s Hospital.Beck toured...

Skyrocketing costs is hurting Saskatchewan small businesses

SaskEnergy’s recent proposal to hike natural gas rates for the small commercial sector by nearly 20 per cent with only three weeks’ notice comes...

Fort’s Farmers’ Market heading for showdown

Disagreement between popular summer market and town over business licensing The Fort Qu’Appelle Farmers’ Market is headed for a showdown with the town following council’s...

Hospital Aux. disbanding after 110 years

After 110 years of serving the community the St. Peter’s Hospital Auxiliary has decided to disband.The group disbanded after the COVID-19 pandemic greatly affected...

Provincial News

WICKBERG – Stanley Edlin

Stan was born on Oct. 7, 1959 in Esterhazy, Sask. to Gordon and Shirley Wickberg. Growing up on the farm, he was the third...

STRATTON – Heather