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March 8, 2007 / Local News

Photo/WES KELLER ALL FROM DUFFERIN AREA: Royal Canadian Legion Zone E3 youth education chairman Bill Edge poses with the first-place public speaking winners at zone competition in Beeton last Sunday. More...

Community Living Dufferin faces challenges

By LAVINIA KERR Staff Reporter

Developmentally disabled Canadians and their families face many challenges dealing with daily life, including where to live, and in Ontario that choice is becoming very limited. More...

Entertaining schoolkids in a crisis

By CONSTANCE SCRAFIELD-DANBY Columnist

When Rosemary Coles started her morning's journey to college on February 15, she had no idea of the adventure that trip would bring. More...

Photo/MANDI HARGRAVE KENNEDY BROWN, 10, (sitting) and Lexie Houghton, 13, parted with their long hair Saturday afternoon to donate it to Angel Hair for Kids. More...

Murder mystery train tour coming

The Credit Valley Explorer Tour Train plans to present an exciting murdermystery dinner on April 21 that will feature a 1940's big band theme on April 21st. More...

Photo/MANDI HARGRAVE GAIL MCDONALD was the big winner in the Topper's Pizza contest for a Niagara Winter Weekend Getaway last month. With her are Owner Gunter Dietz and Manager Tanya Greig. More...

Contributed Photo THE OPTIMIST CLUB of Orangeville donated $3,000 to Headwaters Health Care Foundation last Thursday. More...

New program for first-time parents

Invest in Kids, a national Designed to accommodate charity, is recruiting first-time parents, both moms and dads, who are expecting their baby in May or October/November 2007 for The Parenting Partnership, a free, 2 1/2-year prenatal and parenting p More...

Child ID clinic coming soon

Parents wanting to have their child's identification information contained in one place may want to attend the free Child ID Clinic coming up on March 13. The clinic will be held at the Orangeville Mall from 4 to 8 p.m. More...

Melancthon opts for by-election

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

Melancthon Township Council has decided to have a by-election if necessary to fill the vacancy created by the death of mayor Ron Dillman shortly after he was elected to the office. More...

Amaranth setting budget piecemeal

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

Amaranth Township councillors may have a budgetary wish list for a special March 26 meeting, but for now it's showing a zero increase in its 2007 draft. That's not to say the council hasn't committed itself to a few expenditures. More...

Photo/LAVINIA KERR CELEBRATING 10 YEARS, staff at the Benjamin Moore store in Orangeville served up breakfast for contractors and are offering a sale in the first 10 days of March. More...

Overall wind production remained high during storm

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

Last Thursday night's icing conditions affected output at the Melancthon I and Kingsbridge wind farms, but over-all wind production at the four wind farms across the province remained at better than 50 per cent of capacity. More...

Citizens' commission tries to make an impact

By MANDI HARGRAVE Staff Reporter

Monday night was the last time the Citizens' Commission on Finance would meet before Orangeville council passed the 2007 budget, and members were in a hurry to pass a number of motions to try to have more of an effect on this year's tax rate. More...

Subdivision expanding on College Avenue

By MANDI HARGRAVE Staff Reporter

An established subdivision in Orangeville's College Avenue neighbourhood is about to expand with little resistance or acceptance from surrounding residents. More...

Regulations for personal wind turbines coming soon

By MANDI HARGRAVE Staff Reporter

When a resident on Orangeville's Edelwild Drive erected a personal wind turbine in his backyard last July, the town's planning staff were forced to begin developing a bylaw to establish regulations for such wind energy systems. More...

Brampton man dead in Highway 10 crash

A Brampton man was pronounced dead at the scene of a collision on Highway 10 in Melancthon last Friday afternoon. More...

Museum to host March Break crafts for kids

There'll be fun for all ages at the Dufferin County Museum and Archives next week during March Break. A full week of activities offered mornings (10 to noon) and afternoon (2 to 4) sessions. More...

Photo/LAVINIA KERR SWIM FOR HEART is celebrating 10 years of fundraising for the Heart and Stroke Foundation. More...

'High miler' clocked at 163 km/h on '10'

Last Saturday afternoon, a Caledon OPP officer observed a motor vehicle traveling at what appeared to be an extreme high speed on Highway 10 near The Grange Side Road in Caledon. More...