February 22, 2007 RSS feed / Front Page

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Humber to offer courses at rec centre

By MANDI HARGRAVE Staff Reporter
Come this fall students attending Humber College's Orangeville Campus will have a slightly different experience, for at least their first year, than their counterparts attending an established campus. More...

Residents evacuated from apartment

By MANDI HARGRAVE Staff Reporter

Asubstantial water leak forced residents in a midtown apartment building to be evacuated from their residences late Thursday night. More...

Local designer airing on HGTV

By MANDI HARGRAVE Staff Reporter

Her passion for decorating and dynamic personality has secured her a spot on an HGTV design competition series. More...

Special Sections

Editorial

Were all the Hall students' suspensions justified?

THERE'S SURELY NO DOUBT that some of the 19 Robert F. Hall Catholic High School students suspended for up to eight school days richly deserved the punishment. More...

Councillors need 'mic' orientation

ALTHOUGH WE CERTAINLY APPLAUD Dufferin County's initiative in having installed an effective public address system in the historic but imperfectly acoustical, centuryold county courtroom, we have to suggest that county councillors need to be trained More...

'An absurdly irresponsible position'

Words, of course, have meaning well beyond dictionary definitions. More...

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Mailbox

'Reality has no place in Mr. Hoy's perceptions

RE Reality has no place in political perceptions This article is aptly titled since reality has no place in Mr. Hoy's perceptions. First assumption: that the local riding associations are democratic. More...

Wants to participate

The following letter is addressed to Mono Council and CEO Keith McNenly I understand that you have been commissioned to set up a committee to deal with the lack of firearms by-law in the Town of Mono. More...

‘Reality has no place in Mr. Hoy’s perceptions

Claire Hoy doesn More...

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Sports

Muskies even series at 2-2 with pair of wins

By MIKE MALONEY Sports Editor

After falling behind by two games in their quarter final playoff, the Shelburne Muskies returned home Saturday night to the familiar confines of the CDRC, looking to even the slate after posting a 6-4 win in Tavistock the night before. More...

Royals District 4 champs for second year in row

Tuesday night, the CDDHS Royals Senior Boys basketball team wrapped up their 2006-07 season with a bittersweet win over the Wellington Heights Wolverines to lay claim to the District 4 championship title for the second year in a row. More...

Oilers hang on to beat Habs

The M&M Meats Oilers jumped out to an early lead when Mathew Sharpe notched the first goal assisted by Brandon Amos, just 19 seconds into the game. More...

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SIU investigates Shelburne stand-off

By LAVINIA KERR Staff Reporter

A Special Investigation Unit (SIU) team from Toronto is examining the details of an incident last week that had members of the Shelburne Police Services and Dufferin OPP in a stand-off with a man who barricaded himself inside the garage of a residen More...

County to save by centralizing management

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

With the exception of Dufferin Oaks and the Dufferin County Museum, all county facilities will now come under the umbrella of the building department, at what the chief building official says will be the saving of "a lot of money. More...

OMB turbine hearing might take 10 weeks

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

Although many issues are similar, there are enough differences of concern between Amaranth and Melancthon on wind turbines that the Ontario Municipal Board could sit for nine or 10 weeks to accommodate all parties and participants to the proceedings More...

Local News

Fund started to help Scrafield-Danbys

In her column With Your Permission, freelance writer Constance Scrafield- Danby two weeks ago gave a first-hand account of the fire that destroyed the Hockley home she shared with husband Colin, two dogs and six cats. More...

Photo/LAVINIA KERR JENNY MIEDEMA and her children Billy, 13, Mary, 11, Emily, 8, and Thomas, 7, shared their story about visiting Uganda with their school, the Orangeville Christian School. More...

MTO promises left-turn lane at 10/10 intersection

Complaints from residents concerned with motorists' safety in trying to make a left turn on Highway 10 at Dufferin County Road 10 prompted Mono Council to press the Ministry of Transportation to take some action. More...

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Columns

Love does make the world go round

Iknow Valentine's Day was last week, but surely you will indulge my speaking on this subject, which, after all, is really always in season. More...

Report supported power development at Horning's Mills

100 YEARS AGO Thursday, February 21, 1907 + At the meeting of Shelburne Council Monday night, the report of consulting engineer W. A. Brackenridge on the proposed power development at Horning's Mills was laid on the table and discussed. More...

October 10 election race is heating up

What seemed a leisurely plodding toward the October 10 election in Ontario suddenly has picked up speed - it's as if someone threw some kind of additive into the gas tank. The pattern until recently had become familiar, and even monotonous. More...

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Regional News

Canada lagging behind in wind power output

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

Coinciding with pressures on the federal government to respect the Kyoto Accord, and with ongoing Ontario Municipal Board hearings into a proposed 132- megawatt wind project in Dufferin, a new study shows that Canada is 12th among industrialized n More...

School Road project cost is increasing

By LAVINIA KERR Staff Reporter

For such a short stretch of road, it's been a long journey to finish School Road. Reconstruction will finally move forward with the winning bid being accepted by Allto Construction Services for $1,137,112.80. More...

COMRIF grant helps replace area bridges

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

Grants from Intake 3 of the Canada-Ontario Municipal Rural Infrastructure Fund (COMRIF) have enabled two townships in Dufferin to undertake up to $2.7-million in bridge projects. More...

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