December 8, 2005 RSS feed / Front Page

CRUSHER CAPTAIN

Kevin Tuckey scored a pair of goals for Orangeville this past More...

Local News

Hundreds attend wind turbine open house

Hundreds of residents of all parts of Dufferin County crowded the cafetorium of Centre Dufferin District High School last week to hear about More...

Raids net grow operations in Grand Valley area

Acting on a tip, Ontario Provincial Police armed with a search warrant discovered that a Grand Valley house was the scene of a large hydroponic marijuana grow operation. Members of the OPP More...

Christmas hope banquet

Low-income families, single parents, seniors and anyone who otherwise would be alone this Christmas will be sitting down this Saturday to the 19th annual Broadway Tabernacle Christmas Hope Banquet. More...

Mailbox

Canada and it’s immigration policy

Canada More...

AIDS and Africa

Recently on the CBC news there was a report on the aids plague in Africa. Also Stephen Lewis held speeches in Ontario to draw attention to the situation in Africa and what we can do. More...

Windmill concerns

This letter is in regards to the construction of the windmills in Melancthon Township. More...

Regional News

Ruling on teen expected soon

The Ontario Court of Appeal is expected to rule shortly on whether a sixmonth sentence for a teenager convicted of being an accessory after the fact of murder should be reduced to the two months he has already served. More...

Valuable tractor stolen

A New Holland TC45 tractor worth more than $40,000, was stolen from a farm property in the Town of Mono. A New Holland 16LA loader, a New Holland 145 spreader and a Meteor 75S blower were also stolen. More...

Orangeville, Mulmur favour county waste management

Orangeville and Mulmur Township councils have reacted positively to a suggestion that Dufferin County assume full responsibility for collection and disposal of solid wastes. More...

Boundaries bring heated debate at Orangeville council break

An outburst during a break in the Orangeville Council meeting Monday night resulted in a heated argument between Settlers Creek parents and Bob Borden, Chair and Trustee of the Upper Grand District School Board. More...

Water and sewer rates to rise in 2006

To comply with new standards and to ensure a self-sustaining system in the future, Orangeville More...

Editorial

Karla: most notorious, but all that dangerous?

WERE THERE EVER a contest for the title of Canada More...

Should we thank Michigan?

PERHAPS IT JUST that local councillors are starting to seek the common sense More...

Election opinions around town

Residents share what issues they want addressed locally during this winter election. More...

Columns

Dump capacity: a fact or fantasy?

In my Opinion

With the Dufferin County More...

‘Wild rumours’ of smallpox outbreaks in Dufferin area

Dipping Into the Past

100 YEARS AGO Thursday, December 7, 1905  There is a genuine smallpox scare on in this section of Ontario just now. If all of the reports were true More...

Things left unsaid

Angles

O ne meets many who say More...

Sports

Muskies get job done in Tavistock

Now past the midway point of their 2005-06 campaign, the Shelburne Muskies continue to put a bite on their competition, this past weekend defeating the Royals in Tavistock by a score of 8-6. More...

Spartans maul Junior Bears

In what would prove to be two totally mismatched teams, the ODSS Junior Bears basketball team was mauled by a score of 95-17 at the hands of the Centennial Spartans in District 10 action on Tuesday. More...

Local riders get chance in Supercross spotlight

Orangeville was represented well last weekend in the Toronto World Supercross Challenge at the Rogers Centre. More...