Moose Jaw Independent

A donation from SaskTel Pioneers will give much needed help for the Moose Jaw Regional Heritage Fair.

The April 30th fair will see 60 students selected from Moose Jaw and area school heritage fairs gather at the Western Development Museum with the best selected to go onto the Provincial Heritage Fair later in June.

There are major upgrades coming to the Boulevard Bylaw with the potential of affecting hundreds if not thousands of property owners. Now is the time to read about it and have your say and voice heard if you chose to do so before the issue returns to Council on March 23rd.

The next two days will be big days for Moose Jaw’s high school wrestlers as 11 local grapplers are off to Provincials in Saskatoon with medal hopes and dreams on the line.

A story about the event and interviews with the wrestlers themselves.

It was a mixed bag when it came to the City of Moose Jaw’s safety statistics but overall the number of injuries and serious incidents took major drops in 2019 compared to 2018.

Outdated cast iron water mains were a major contributor to the number of breaks reported in 2019.

A multi-million dollar land deal that could have seen industrial development predicted in the hundreds of millions has collapsed as the buyer has walked away from the agreement for now.

Federal funding to help bring Manitoba power to Saskatchewan is just one in a series of recent developments as the province is forced by federal regulations and the carbon tax to move towards more renewable and less carbon emitting energy sources.

A heritage site which has sat largely unused for a quarter of a century had a resident address Council requesting renovations, preservation and more use.