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April 27, 2006  RSS feed


HEADWATERS HEALTH CARE CENTRE will be enrolling the help of volunteers like George Knowles and Fiona Graham to help complete the second phase of the drystone wall around the new garden known as the Healing Circle of Trees located at the entrance to the hospital. More...
Council passes 2006 budget
By MANDI HARGRAVE Staff Reporter

After months of deliberation on this year's budget, Orangeville council, sitting as its Finance and Administration committee, recommended approval Monday of one involving the expenditure of $16,692,400 - a 5.35 per cent increase from 2005 - which they did by a 5-2 vote. More...

New gasification plant on Dufferin's doorstep
By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

Shelburne Mayor Ed Crewson has welcomed an announcement on Wednesday that a gasification plant similar to one being considered by Dufferin County Council is going to be built just outside the county. More...

Proposed sign bylaw hurts local companies: owner
By MANDI HARGRAVE Staff Reporter

A proposed new Orangeville sign bylaw has some area sign manufacturers upset over the suggested $300 licensing fee, especially since they have not previously been charged anything. More...


ORANGEVILLE CRUSHERS President Dale Hawerchuk welcomes Steve Chelios as the new coach of the local junior hockey team. At the same time the Crushers also announced that next season they will be leaving the Mid-Western Junior B league and making the jump to join the ranks of the Ontario Provincial Ju More...

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LITTLE HAYDEN MORRIS has his car seat inspected by Marc Walsh of the Dufferin OPP during the Baby Junction car seat clinic on Thursday, April 20. More...
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Have you taken the time to watch the "stuff" that fills up increasingly more of an hour between the segments of your favourite television program or the pages of your favourite magazine? More...
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• Proposed law change doomed to failure
Claire Hoy's column in April 6th issue of the Citizen leans heavily on his conviction that a law to control what a woman must do in the event she finds herself pregnant with an unwanted issue is doomed to failure. More...
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 Regional News
• Search for Dr. Goel's killers bungled, Bombay court told
A police witness has told a Bombay court that an inadequate police investigation into Dr. Asha Goel's brutal slaying in India three years ago let suspects slip through authorities' fingers for years. More...
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• Confused waters on the Pine?
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FRIDAY NIGHT will find the Orangeville Junior B Northmen in Hamilton for the start of their 2006 regular season. The team wrapped up the pre-season by spliting a pair of games on the road. On Saturday afternoon they defeated the Halton Bulldogs for the second straight game while on Sunday night, the More...
• Crushers make leap to Junior A ranks
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