April 27, 2006 RSS feed / Front Page

Proposed sign bylaw hurts local companies: owner

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...

Local News

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...

Chantree has concerns about wind zoning

Although in favour of wind generation, Paul Chantree of Melancthon says he's concerned about how the rezoning is being handled by the township. More...

Volunteers sought for dry stone wall project

Headwaters Health Care Centre is looking for volunteers to complete the dry stone wall at the entrance of the Orangeville site. More...

Columns

What Is In It For Me?

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...

Royal Canadian Legion News

Branch 233 has been a beehive of activity this past week. More...

Ottawa Journal

For the week of April 24-28, 2006

Reflecting on the Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide More...

Sports

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. More...

Crushers make leap to Junior A ranks

In a press conference Wednesday morning, Orangeville Crushers President Dale Hawerchuk announced what could possibly be their biggest move in the last two years, they will be leaving the MidWestern Junior B hockey league to become the newest entry in More...

THERE WAS end to end action in spades as the Dufferin Family of Schools held their Basketball Championships at Westside on Tuesday evening. More...

Council passes 2006 budget

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 the More...

New gasification plant on Dufferin's doorstep

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...

ORANGEVILLE CRUSHERS President Dale Hawerchuk welcomes Steve Chelios as the new coach of the local junior hockey team. More...

Editorial

Who should pay for our ancestors' wrongs?

BACK IN 1622, Peter Minuit arrived in what then was called New More...

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Truth should dictate zoning changes

GIVEN THAT THE MOST POTENT news is "disruption of the status quo," it is not 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...

Benefiting everyone

I was wondering why Mr. Reed said that very few people benefit from the windmills? Does Mr. Reed have no electricity? EVERYONE benefits from the wind power generated. More...

Refreshing perspective

I enjoyed Doris Majors' homily about the hanging stove. The engineer, the philosopher and the theologian perhaps all out hunting quail with Cheney each figure out what the strange stove means. More...

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...

Robbie McLennan remembered

It's been four years since Orangeville teen Robbie McLennan was murdered in Dragonfly Park, but time has done little to heal the hurt his family and friends feel every day. More...

Confused waters on the Pine?

The regional engineer of the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) found a peaceful, simple solution to the Horning's Mills historic dam/pond problem last Thursday. Or did he? More...