December 21, 2006 RSS feed / Front Page

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Spirit of giving alive, well

By MANDI HARGRAVE Staff Reporter
While most children are concerned with receiving presents at this time of year, one girl is worried more about giving toys to children who will spend Christmas in a hospital. More...

ELGV sewage plant plans progressing

Peter Laughton, the consulting engineer for East Luther Grand Valley More...

THE SECOND ANNUAL INVESTORS GROUP food drive collected about 780 pounds of food for the Orangeville Food Bank. This will be enough to feed about seven families in town. Along with the food donations, Investors Group donated $750 to the food bank. More...

Special Sections

Editorial

A time for more goodwill

A time for more goodwill So here we are, with just a couple of shopping days until Christmas 2006, and the latest Christmas controversy was stirred up by an Ontario Court judge ba More...

Political Cartoon

Full Story

Will the message ever get through?

RECENT DAYS have brought with them some truly disheartening news concerning the battle against impaired driving. First there was the Toronto Star article disclosing the fact that far too large a share of the public More...

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Mailbox

‘We are the inheritors of a public trust’

I continue to correspond re: the Public Library. As citizens of Orangeville we should not forget that we are the inheritors of a public trust. More...

Read what is written

It is always a pleasure to have a person take time to respond to one More...

Population imposition?

The Ontario Liberal government, under Premier Dalton McGuinty, has decided in its wisdom to redesign Dufferin County by doubling its rural population More...

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Regional News

Local Liberals primed for two elections in 2007

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

Perhaps primed by the enthusiasm of the recent election of St More...

Tilson on hand as Royal Assent given accountability law

On Tuesday of last week, Royal Assent was given the Federal Accountability Act (FAA) by Governor General Micha More...

Tenor Mark DuBois makes headlines with his students

By Constance Scrafield-Danby Freelance Contributor

Hockley resident, but internationally renowned tenor, Mark DuBois teaches promising young singers in the antique rural United Church in Hockley Village. More...

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MP Tilson calls Dufferin OPP office a ‘disgraceful situation’

By MANDI HARGRAVE Staff Reporter

Dufferin-Caledon MP David Tilson has called the OPP Dufferin detachment More...

‘Goods exchange day’ abandoned

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

Dufferin County Council has accepted a recommendation to discontinue its More...

THE MAPLES INDEPENDENT COUNTRY SCHOOL held its annual Christmas concert last week. Shown are Mrs. Rachel Manuel More...

Local News

Oosterhof back as warden

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

As expected, East Luther Grand Valley Mayor John Oosterhof was acclaimed as warden of Dufferin County at the council More...

LAURA PALMER MAKES A phone call to her son, Darren Porter, who is living in British Columbia. The Shelburne Kinsmen sponsored their annual Christmas phone calls project at Dufferin Oaks on Saturday. More...

County’s weighted voting makes attendance important

In Dufferin County More...

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Columns

Random Reflections

Train travel can include some surprises
Tom Claridge

Many moons ago, Pam and I made plans for a trip up to Sudbury to visit with son Chris, daughter-in-law Liisa and little Owen, who More...

National Affairs

By-election results hardly meaningful
Claire Hoy

I n 1969, just down the road from where Green Party Leader Elizabeth May recently captured political attention by finishing second in a federal by-election, a soft-spoken Anglican preacher, Rev. Kenneth Bolton, stunned Ontario More...

Queen’s Park

Taunts over Tory
Eric Dowd

P remier Dalton McGuinty More...

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Sports

Royals take round one from Thunder

By MIKE MALONEY Sports Editor

For the first time this season, the top two powers in District 4 basketball had a chance to put each other to the test when CDDHS took to the hardcourt at Westside Secondary on Monday afternoon. More...

Solid effort earn Crushers point

The goals against were down and the effort greatly improved, but three of the tougher teams ahead of them in the standings, allowed the Orangeville Crushers to post a single point for their weekend play in Ontario Provincial Junior A play. More...

Elementary champions

Months of practice, teamwork and preparation for intermediate students representing thirteen area elementary schools came to an end last week when the top four boys and girls teams competed at the Dufferin Schools Basketball Championship at Westside More...

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