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Dufferin County councillors have decided to spend the gasoline tax money from Ottawa in their own backyards. More ... With less than six months to go until this year's municipal elections, there appears to be a dearth of interest in the 25 council positions within Dufferin's five townships. More ... Question period is generally a quite time at Dufferin County council, but comments by the warden last month brought two members of the community out looking for clarification and an apology. More ... The Service Canada Centre for Youth (SCCY) is now open for business at 210 Broadway in Orangeville. The phone More ... At the beginning of his third summer of extreme riding, a teen bike junkie has found a new challenge to jump: one of the three controversial Broadway medians. More ... A tender that was just $89,000 over the $1-million plus budget has been accepted by Orangeville council for construction work on Margaret and Alexander streets. More ... Paramedics prepare to place a Westside Secondary School student in ambulance Friday night after she was More ... Fred Eaglesmith, who regularly packs venues throughout Canada and the United States with countryfied wit set to music, will bring his welltravelled road show to the Grace Tipling Hall on Saturday of next week, June 24. More ... The Orangeville Railway Development Corporation board is working on plans to use $100,000 in insurance funds from the March fire that destroyed the historic Orangeville Bunkhouse toward a loading platform and small structure for tour train patrons. More ... Imagine your life being changed forever in a split second. That is what happened to Greater Dufferin Area Chamber of Commerce director Judy Scipione and her family. More ... Renee Courture, a grade 8 student at Primrose Elementary School, was presented last week with the first-ever student volunteer award by the Lions Club's district Lions-Quest committee and The Past District Governors' Association. More ... In just a few months, Melanie Adams of Orangeville will join thousands of dedicated women and men in Toronto, September 8-10, to walk 60 kilometres over two days. She is offering fresh hope to cancer victims by participating in The Weekend to End Breast Cancer benefiting the Princess Margaret Hospit More ... Last week, students at Orangeville District Secondary School (ODSS) watched 10 teachers shave their heads for cancer. More ... Canadian playwright Richard Turtle's latest collaboration with Orangeville writer Peter Moore, Reading The Signs, is being performed for the first time next week, by Grades 7 and 8 students from Princess Margaret Elementary School. More ... Bradley Bowden of Orton, possibly Canada's first paralympic gold medalist, had lots of advice for students at East Garafraxa Central Public School last Friday, as the gymnasium at his former school was dedicated in his honour. More ... |
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