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Retail liquor store permits to be auctioned

Retail liquor store permits to be auctioned

January 23, 2020 2:57 pm

There will be new opportunities for retail liquor stores in Esterhazy and Carlyle in an online auction starting this week. The second round of auctions for available retail...

Griffiths: building communities is most important job on earth

Griffiths: building communities is most important job on earth

January 22, 2020 10:33 am

Doug Griffiths, author of 13 Ways to Kill Your Community, is coming to Moosomin February 10 to speak about community development. Griffiths is a sought-after speaker with a lo...

SHA doesn’t anticipate further disruptions at SEICC

SHA doesn’t anticipate further disruptions at SEICC

January 20, 2020 7:34 am

The Saskatchewan Health Authority is not anticipating any more service disruptions at Moosomin’s Southeast Integrated Care Centre. The Emergency Room at the Southeast Integ...

Benefit being held for Will Kurbis and family

Benefit being held for Will Kurbis and family

January 14, 2020 4:50 pm

A benefit for the Kurbis family is being held of Feb. 22 in Rocanville in order to help the family cope with the costs of taking six-year-old Will Kurbis to Edmonton and Saska...

Regina man faces child pornography charges

Regina man faces child pornography charges

January 13, 2020 7:28 pm

A 31-year-old Regina man is facing two child pornography charges after an investigation by the Saskatchewan Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) Unit. Landon Gilbert Gladue wa...

Woman from Moosomin evacuated from Kangaroo Island home

Woman from Moosomin evacuated from Kangaroo Island home

January 13, 2020 7:28 am

Two people have been killed and 56 homes have been destroyed in recent weeks by bush fires on Australia’s Kangaroo Island—fires that left one woman originally from Moosomin fl...

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Weekly Photo Gallery

Generals play in very first U18 girls tackle football interprovincial tourney in Canada. From left are Emry Halgbewachs, Sydney Schenn, Jason Schenn (GM of the Team Sask U18 program), Bailey Delbridge, Kezia Grant, and Shelby Piper. In front is Dexter Mondor who was head coach of Team Sask White.

The village of Kennedy held a parade on the Saturday morning of the Moose Mountain Rodeo weekend on July 20. There were lots of entries in the parade, and plenty of excited kids collecting candy along the route.

It was Christmas in July on Thursday, with Santa himself making a very special visit to the long-term care ward at the South East Integrated Care Centre in Moosomin.

The Santos family in Saskatoon for their final interview for permanent residency on Thursday, July 25, 2019.

It’s summer fair season on the Prairies. The Fairmede Fair, Elkhorn Ag Fair, and Moosomin Homecraft and Horticultural Society are three of the local fairs that take place in the Moosomin area. This young competitor gets ready for the cattle show at the Elkhorn Ag Fair held July 12-13.

A grand opening hose-cutting was held for the new water treatment plant at Moosomin Regional Park on Saturday, July 13.

Kids have fun with the bouncers and kids games held during the day at the Tantallon Rink’s 50th anniversary celebration on July 13.

Around 200 ping pong balls were dropped in the Moosomin Chamber of Commerce Ball Drop the Saturday of the Moosomin rodeo weekend.

The weather was beautiful on the Friday night, making for a big crowd that filled the stands at the 2019 Moosomin Rodeo.

Welwyn Regional Park becomes a very busy place when the annual week of swimming lessons take place at Welwyn Lake. There were 60 kids taking swimming lessons this year and the park was full of families camping.

The grand opening of the Borderland Co-op Aquaplex was held on Canada Day. There was free swimming and a barbecue, and kids got to use some of the new features at the pool, like the rock climbing wall and giant inflatable waterslide.

he Fleming Jets fastball team took on the New Zealand ISA Under 19 team in a game on Thursday, July 4 at Green Acres Ball Park in Fleming where the New Zealand team performed the "Haka"

Redvers held all kinds of events for Canada Day including a parade, children’s fireman rodeo, dunk tank, slo-pitch, pancake breakfast, supper, cake and fireworks

Hazy Days was held in Esterhazy on June 21 & 22, 2019

MacLeod Elementary school students bid farewell to elementary school on Wednesday, June 26. They will be attending McNaughton High School in the fall. Photo by Lana McCormac.

Rocanville Community Days was held Friday, June 21 and Saturday, June 22, and as part of the Friday night celebrations there were pow wow dancers from Ochapowace.

The Moosomin and District Seniors gathered for a group photo before making $85,000 in donations in June 2019.

Pipestone Villas in Moosomin held a fire drill on Monday, June 17 and the Moosomin Fire Department used their new aerial platform truck to perform a practice rescue from the top floor of the building.

The grand opening of the new Pipestone Hills Golf Club clubhouse was held on Saturday, June 15. Above the board members and staff hold the ribbon while Moosomin Mayor Larry Tomlinson cuts the ribbon to officially open the clubhouse.

Moosomin now has a mini golf course! Thanks to Kim Setrum, a local real estate agent with Royal Lepage, a new nine-hole mini golf course has been opened at the Tim Hortons Outdoor Eventplex at Bradley Park in Moosomin.

Melinda’s Family Hair Care and Styles on Main were offering buzz cuts for charity on Thursday with their Swing in for a Buzz fundraiser, offering buzz cuts for a donation to the Kinability wheelchair swing. Tim Reykdal gets his head buzzed by Donna Stanhope with Styles on Main.

Members of the Moosomin Volunteer Fire Department demonstrate rescue techniques at the Fire Department’s Open House on Saturday, June 8.

The Moosomin Legion held a free hot-dog barbecue on Thursday in honor of the 75th anniversary of D-Day.

Work on Nutrien Rocanville’s tailings management area got underway in the spring of 2019, and will be ongoing for about a year.

Cst Jonathan Berkshire of the Moosomin RCMP serves up a coffee at the Moosomin Tim Hortons during Camp Day 2019.

Grade 4 students at MacLeod Elementary School learned how to plant a garden with the assistance of Sharpe’s Crop Services on Tuesday, May 26.

Borderland Co-op and RBC Moosomin held a fundraising barbecue for the Moosomin Food Share on Wednesday, May 29 at the grocery store in Moosomin.

Elize Steyn submitted this photo as part of the World-Spectator’s 2019 spring seeding contest.

Energy East advocate Sinclair Harrison spoke to members of the Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, May 22 when they were in Moosomin for a Moosomin Energy Tour.

The first Rocanville Museum Market of the season was held on Saturday, May 18.

Colin MacPherson took this photo in May 2019 of a rainbow arching over a gravel road with farm fields on each side . The photo was taken about 11 km west of Highway 8 on grid #709 (the Kipling road).