It is an issue near and dear to the hearts of the majority of Moose Javians and that is garbage collection.
With the approval of a 38 cent per month increase on your solid waste utility bill - making the monthly bill $9.99 per residence - Council agreed to extend weekly trash collection to now include October.
Read MoreA look at liver and onions in the age of COVID - 19
Read MoreA look at liver and onions in the age of COVID - 19
Read MoreThe pay raises for out of scope employees based upon modernized job evaluations will soon see 18 supervisory and Administration employees with some extra cash in their pockets.
Read MoreThe rising levels of crime in the community had Council unanimously approve the Moose Jaw Police Services budget increase of 5.58 percent or $565,322.
Read MoreDespite the critics and the naysayers Mayor Clive Tolley said he is happy with the results of the 2022 Budget.
It is a budget he said designed to make Moose Jaw a better place and money is not just being spent to be spent but rather it is an investment in the future to draw people to the city.
Read MoreIn what some critics of City Hall might consider to be a financial shell game, to hide the true extent of the increases of the 2022 Budget, Council agreed to draw down $7.2 million in Reserve earnings to fund both the 2022 Operating and Capital Budgets.
Read MoreA time held local tradition at the Olde Capitol Theatre is about to spring into life.
Read MoreA popular Christmas program is being presented this Christmas both in person and virtually by the Western Development Museum in Moose Jaw.
Read MoreThe plans to get the staff of the new bylaw enforcement unit up and running this year is going to have to wait until next year’s budget as Council in budget discussions on Monday evening decided to wait until next year to get it up and running.
Council would like to see a new City Solicitor in place before proceeding.
By all appearances that mountain of unpaid parking tickets, business licenses and other assorted fines is going to have to wait until next year for collection efforts to begin in earnest.
Read MoreAn animal cruelty case dating back over two years ago was once again adjourned.
Read MoreDeciding to steal a bottle of rum has resulted in a Moose Jaw man receiving a $100 fine for his 18th conviction for petty theft.
Read MoreA look at questions answered by Mayor Clive Tolley when it comes to the Buffalo Pound Water Treatment Plant
Read MoreThis week a Moose Jaw man was sentenced to a one year conditional jail sentence in the community for what Moose Jaw Provincial Court characterized as not “provoked” and vigilante in nature.
We asked the City’s Bylaw Enforcement office about it and what either party should do instead of taking the law into their own hands.
Read MoreThere are now four locations in Moose Jaw where you can pick up at home rapid COVID -19 tests.
Read MoreA photo of how the new Christmas lights look in the Downtown core if you are up and about at 3 am.
Read MoreThe City not having in-house legal counsel has lead to the delays in restructuring City Hall’s operations and for those of you with unpaid parking tickets likely a half a year reprieve until collection efforts can begin.
Read MoreWith readers questioning about how snow removal is conducted on 1st Avenue NW in the Downtown core we asked City Manager some questions about it as part of this morning’s post Council presser.
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