Greg Nikkel

Feb 20, 2025 | sasktoday.ca | Greg Nikkel

WEYBURN - The City of Weyburn will put together a full accessibility plan for the municipality to be in place by the end of 2025. All municipalities need to have such a plan in place by December of 2025, according to the Accessible Saskatchewan Act. The initial phase, from now until March, is to do an initial assessment to identify barriers in physical, technological, systemic, attitudinal and communication areas.

Feb 20, 2025 | sasktoday.ca | Greg Nikkel

WEYBURN - The RM of Weyburn council heard a presentation at Friday’s meeting by environmental specialist Rose McInnes, who is also an RM resident, opposing the proposed wind turbine project by Enbridge in the RMs of Weyburn and Griffin. She outlined the environmental hazards the turbines will pose for the RMs, knowing that Enbridge wants to amend the height restriction currently in place in the zoning bylaw. This request by Enbridge did not come up at Friday’s meeting.

Feb 18, 2025 | sasktoday.ca | Greg Nikkel

WEYBURN - The Weyburn Police Service responded 70 calls for service for the week of Feb. 9-16. Notable incidents during the week included a disturbance on Feb. 10. Police responded to a domestic disturbance at a residence, and a adult male agreed to leave and go stay with a friend. Police provided a ride, and there were no charges laid. On routine patrol Feb 11, police stopped a vehicle with an adult female driver who became uncooperative.

Feb 11, 2025 | sasktoday.ca | Greg Nikkel

WEYBURN - The planning work and the regulatory processes will take SaskPower years to complete before they decide in late 2029 if they will go ahead to build two small modular nuclear reactors in the Estevan area. This was part of the message to members of the Weyburn Chamber of Commerce, as they hosted SaskPower for a lunch-and-learn session on Feb. 11 at the Weyburn Legion Hall.

Feb 11, 2025 | sasktoday.ca | Greg Nikkel

WEYBURN - Weyburn city council approved a proposal by an Alberta consulting firm to conduct a feasibility study on what the next steps should be for the city’s indoor pool. Three firms submitted proposals, and in the end administration went with the highest-priced firm, RC Strategies of Sherwood Park, Alta., at a cost of $49,868, within the budgeted amount of $50,000.