The first day of school after summer holidays looked a little different at Roblin Elementary School this year.

“We don’t have kids here all day today, we did opening day conferences,” noted RES principal Mark Rathgeber during the noon hour Wednesday.

Read all about it in this week’s Review.

Grandview has welcomed a new doctor.

Dr. Assadullah Sayed is a medical graduate from Windsor University School of Medicine in Cayon, St. Kitts and Nevis in the Caribbean.

Find out more in this week’s Review.

The Municipality of Roblin Recreation Department and the Roblin and District Chamber of Commerce have been working hard to bring a traditional Fall Harvest Festival to our community for a second year!

The event takes place this Saturday, Sept. 14.

Want to know more? Read this week’s Rec Report.

A byelection has been set for Oct. 30 to fill four vacant positions on the Mountain View School Division board of trustees.

The polling will seek to identify two trustees in Ward 1, which covers the Municipality of Roblin, and one trustee for Wards 2 and 4.

Check out this week’s paper for more.

It wasn’t exactly the Magical Mystery Tour but there was some mystery and some magic so it came pretty close.

On Wednesday, a group of 19 people boarded a bus from Shuttle Bug Tours & Charter Services based at Onanole for a day-long guided retail tourism experience in the Roblin-Russell area.

Find out more in this week’s Review.

Municipality of Roblin council discussed a new bylaw setting new “tipping” fees at the Roblin Waste Disposal Site.

The fees for residents and non-residents are effective Aug. 27.

To find out how much it will cost to dump a mattress and more, check out this week’s Review.

Roblin has been the hometown for its fair share of successful journalists. There is another one who is making her mark in the field of Indigenous reporting.

Beverly Andrews was a former Roblin resident who left the community after graduating from high school and pursued an education in media.

Read all about it in this week’s Review.

Hazel shrubs and the nuts they produce have been a long-standing theme in my writings over the past 25 years.

As we watch this year’s crop of nuts ripen, I have decided to revise and update an article I wrote in 2013. Hope you enjoy it.

Check out Moments in Riding Mountain in this week’s paper to find out more.

It has been five years since Parkland Psychology & Wellness opened its doors in Russell and owner Amy Wendell thought it would be a good time to re-introduce herself to the area.

“I hope to give you a sense of who I am, what my practice offers, and also shed light on other wonderful practitioners in our region,” she said. “At the end, I’ll talk about ways to navigate finding a psychologist/counsellor who could be a good fit for your needs.”

Read all about it in this week’s Review.

Apart from some minor exemptions, the Manitoba government has banned cellphones in classrooms for the new school year to minimize distractions for students.

“We want young people to be able to focus in class so they can learn more and feel confident. We know cellphones can be a real distraction for students – studies show it can take up to 20 minutes for a child to refocus on what they were learning once distracted,” noted education minister Nello Altomare.

Find out more in this week’s paper.