Sidney to have two Thursday night markets as city finds new operator

Sidney residents will see a Thursday night market return to Beacon Avenue this summer under a new operator following a successful request-for-proposals process. (Black Press Media file photo)
Town of Sidney announced a market will return to Beacon Avenue
It’ll soon be coming up to eight years since Delores Brown disappeared. No suspects have yet been held responsible for her death. (Photo by Don Bodger)

Electronic billboard keeps attention on teenager’s unsolved murder
Seattle Mariners’s Julio Rodriguez reacts after stealing second base during the 13th inning in Game 3 of an American League Division Series baseball game against the Houston Astros, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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Patti MacAhonic, executive director of Ann Davis Transition Society. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress file)

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Cissy Houston, mother of the late singer Whitney Houston, performs with the New Hope Baptist Choir during the grand opening of the Grammy Museum Experience at Prudential Center, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Whitney Houston’s family wants to highlight her gospel roots
A processing unit is shown at Suncor Fort Hills facility in Fort McMurray, Alta., on Monday September 10, 2018. Getting Alberta’s economy up and running on all its fossil fuel-powered cylinders is at the heart of the province’s current election. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson

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Workers of the culture industry demonstrate outside the Louvre museum Monday, March 27, 2023 in Paris. President Emmanuel Macron inflamed public anger by sending his already unpopular plan to raise the retirement age by two years, from 62 to 64, through parliament without a vote. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Louvre staff block entrances as part of pension protest

Gov. Spencer Cox signs two social media regulation bills during a ceremony at the Capitol building in Salt Lake City on Thursday, March 23, 2023. Cox signed a pair of measures that aim to limit when and where children can use social media and stop companies from luring kids to the sites. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)

Utah social media law is ambitious, but is it enforceable?

FILE - New England Patriots backup quarterback Tom Brady warms up on the sidelines before the game against the Detroit Lions at the Silverdome in Pontiac, Mich., Friday, Aug. 4, 2000. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

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Deputy Chief Devin Laforce speaks about the details of the shooting that killed two police officers during a press conference in Edmonton, Friday, March 17, 2023. Edmonton police say a 16-year-old boy who shot and killed two officers on March 16 had been apprehended in November under the Mental Health Act and taken to hospital for assessment. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson

Boy who killed Edmonton officers had been apprehended under Mental Health Act: police

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Scottish National Party leader candidates Ash Regan, left, and Kate Forbes applaud as Humza Yousaf, center is announced new SNP leader, at Murrayfield Stadium, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Monday, March 27, 2023. Scotland’s governing Scottish National Party elected Yousaf as its new leader on Monday after a bruising five-week contest that exposed deep fractures within the pro-independence movement. The 37-year-old son of South Asian immigrants is set to become the first person of color to serve as Scotland’s first minister. (Andrew Milligan/PA via AP)

Scotland to get 1st Muslim leader as SNP elects Humza Yousaf

Country’s health minister to replace First Minister Nicola Sturgeon who unexpectedly stepped down

FILE - German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi speak during a press conference in front of Michelangelo's "David statue" after their bilateral summit in Florence, Italy, on Jan. 23, 2015. The head of Florence’s Galleria del’Accademia on Sunday March 26, 2023 invited the parents and students of a Florida charter school to visit and see Michelangelo’s “David,” after the school principal was forced to resign following parental complaints that an image of the nude Renaissance masterpiece was shown to a sixth-grade art class. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File)

Florida school uproar leads Italy to invite viewing ‘David’

Principal of a Florida school forced to resign after picture of statue shown to 6th-grade art class

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B.C. Lions head coach Rick Campbell watches from the sideline during the second half of a CFL football game against the Edmonton Elks in Vancouver, on Thursday August 19, 2021. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck)

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Bronze medalists, Canadian Kerri Einarson, Val Sweeting, Shannon Birchard, Briane Harris and Krysten Karwacki show their medals after the LGT World Women’s Curling Championship at Goransson Arena in Sandviken, Sweden, Sunday, March 26, 2023. Canada defeated Sweden 8-5. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-TT, Jonas Ekstromer

Canada downs Sweden to capture 2nd straight world women’s curling bronze medal

Switzerland took gold, and Norway got silver

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Kwakiutl First Nation master carver Stan Hunt’s 18-foot monument to Indigenous children who were abused and died while attending residential schools is taking shape and nearly ready to be painted. (Megyn Williams photo)

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Amelia was born with a rare spinal defect called spina bifida, and care from BC Children’s Hospital and Sunny Hill Health Centre have helped her to overcome her health challenges. Photo courtesy BCCHF

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FILE - Adele appears at the Brit Awards 2022 in London on Feb. 8, 2022. Adele has announced that she’s extending her Las Vegas residency with 34 more dates between June and November and also plans to release a concert film. Saturday night’s show was the last performance in the British singer's original “Weekends With Adele” series that covered 34 dates since last November on the Las Vegas Strip. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP, File)

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This combination of images shows promotional art for “The Big Door Prize,” premiering March 29 on Apple TV+, from left, “Rye Lane,” a film premiering March 31 on Hulu. (Apple TV+/Hulu/Apple TV+ via AP)

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