The new year may have arrived, but we still have a few highlights to share from the past year. The best part of working for a local newspaper is that we get to turn a spotlight on the extraordinary things people who live right here in our communities are doing, both at home and around the globe, to make the world a better place. Here is a selection of our top ten profiles from 2019.

As we mark the new year this week, The Citizen is taking the opportunity to look back at 2019. To put it mildly, it was a big year for local news. Here were the top ten news stories affecting our communities, sorted in chronological order from the beginning of the year to the end.

As we mark the new year this week, The Citizen is taking the opportunity to look back at 2019. Earlier today, we posted a top ten list of our biggest news articles of the year. However, some of the best writing we publish has very little to do with news or current events. Here are our very best feature stories of 2019, sorted in chronological order from the beginning of the year to the end. 

This year, the Niverville United Church partnered with Home Instead Senior Care to introduce Be a Santa to a Senior, a gift-giving program aimed at supplying Christmas presents to our senior residents who might otherwise not receive gifts.

Earlier this month, on Saturday, December 7, the Community Resource and Recreation Centre (CRRC) got a fundraising boost. The Friends of the Plex, the committee responsible to raise money for the facility currently under construction in Niverville, organized a family-friendly event at Whitetail Meadow—Christmas Town.

Four municipalities in southeastern Manitoba are joining forces to propose a large-scale wastewater solution of unique scope in Manitoba. The regional initiative includes the RMs of Hanover, Tache, Ritchot, and the Town of Niverville, all of which have entered into a memorandum of understanding to create the Red-Seine-Rat Wastewater Cooperative.