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The Brandon Police Service arrested a student on Monday after an alleged weapons threat at École secondaire Neelin High School. READ MORE
Some people who attended the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair and a sports complex outside of Brandon during the first week of April may have been exposed to measles. READ MORE
The Virden Oil Capitals are headed back to the Turnbull Cup championship after defeating the Steinbach Pistons 4-3 in Game 6 of its best-of-seven semifinal tilt at Tundra Oil & Gas Place on Sunday evening. READ MORE
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Weather
TUESDAY: Clearing in the morning. Wind becoming southwest 20 km/h early in the afternoon. High 14 C, with -6 C wind chill in the morning. Low 2 C.
WEDNESDAY: Sunny. High 13 C. Low -4 C.
THURSDAY: Flurries. High -2 C. Low -3 C.
FRIDAY: Periods of snow. High -2 C. Low -9 C.
Looking Back
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Opening the annual campaign of the Brandon branch of the Canadian Cancer Society, the Brandon United Commercial Travellers turned over a cheque of $1,000, bringing its total support of cancer research to $3,000.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
City council changed its mind and will now recommend to the Brandon school board that the playground at Park School be sold to the city for $1 and retained as a children’s play area.
Manitobans escaped general increases in income or sales taxes in the 1976-77 budget speech, but increased levies are to be placed on alcoholic beverages and tobacco products beginning May 17.
FORTY YEARS AGO
The City of Brandon Recreation Centre golf course will be open for play this weekend, weather permitting.
Two Brandon Correctional Institution inmates who took one guard hostage and wounded another during a failed escape attempt in January pleaded guilty in provincial court.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
In southeastern Manitoba, high runoffs in the Shannon Creek area meant two bridges were washed out in the Morris area and officials are predicting more problems as warmer weather brings a thawing relief to Prairie residents.
Manitoba home-care workers who went on strike this week for the first time ever set up pickets at the legislature to protest government plans to privatize the service.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Round two in the Brandon debate over where to put a west-end cellphone tower began last night, but there seems to be fewer opponents this time around. MTS wants to install a 45-metre-tall tower near the Wheat City Golf Course clubhouse to improve the capacity of its cellular network in the west end of Brandon. The company backed off from its previous plan to build a tower near the intersection of 34th Street and Cherry Crescent after an outpouring of opposition from people who live nearby.
TEN YEARS AGO
Blü Kitchen & Bar was awash with pink on Wednesday. Crystal Hamm’s Earl Oxford School Grade 5-6 class, dozens strong and clad head-to-toe in pink clothing, spent the early part of Wednesday afternoon at the local restaurant. The preteens set tables with custom decorations and handmade pink messages about how to combat bullying.
Riverview ward residents will have three candidates to choose from when they cast their vote in the municipal byelection on May 18. The latest candidate to enter the fray is Delvina Kejick, a retired project co-ordinator who worked at École New Era School for nearly 24 years. Kejick ran a number of programs with a focus on community engagement and Indigenous education. She joins local real estate agent Tyson Tame and Brandon Sun sales and marketing director Glen Parker in the race.
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