June 5, 2008 RSS feed / Front Page

Board to recommend museum tour

The Dufferin County Museum board, following a second meeting on the topic, will again recommend that two museum staff members accompany about 30 Centre Dufferin District High School (CDDHS) students on a tour of European battlefields. More...

DVA supports local Cenotaph

MP David Tilson delivered a $25,000 cheque from the Department of Veterans Affairs to Orangeville's Royal Canadian Legion last Saturday in support of Cenotaph renewal. More...

Special Sections

Editorial

Getting rails back to Owen Sound a big challenge

IF THE NEW PRIVATE OWNERS of the Orangeville-Brampton Railway are to have any real hope of one day restoring rail service to Owen Sound, they should forget about doing it the traditional way. More...

Cartoon

Full Story

Their initial reaction is encouraging

CLEARLY, ONE OF THE MOST important activities of the Dufferin County Physicians Search Committee is the annual activity of acting as hosts to medical students during Rural Health Week. More...

Letters to the Editor

Will 'Product of Canada'law benefit us?

Are you bothered by living inside the government's simulator? If you stay you'll be pleasured to death. Try to leave and you'll find out how deep the corruption goes. The choice is yours. More...

McGuinty a 'family guy'?

Subject: Re: McGuinty billing himself as 'the family guy' I read with interest this article on Dalton McGuinty's family life by Eric Dowd. http://www.citizen.on.ca/news/ 2008/0522/columns/032. More...

Not all Americans . .

As an American, (not U.S.A-nian), I am finding the gratuitous insertion of snide comments about my country and president into his column by William Bothwell quite tiresome. More...

Regional News

Ciara McKnight - a photographer who lets the horses tell their stories

Ciara McKnight thinks, breathes, lives for and takes pictures of horses. By her own reckoning, she started riding rather late in life, compared, as she says, to the other riders at the stables: she started riding at the age of 10. More...

Town forging ahead in new economic direction

Despite past and impending closures of several base industries, the relatively robust health of Orangeville's service sector is becoming the envy of other similar-sized municipalities. More...

Former pub co-owner faces murder charge

A one-time Orangeville pub co-owner has been remanded in custody on a charge of second degree murder in the stabbing death of a 37-year-old man at 309 Montgomery Boulevard last Thursday morning. More...

Photo

Photo/MIKE MALONEY LOBSTERFEST 2008 - 1200 lbs of lobster, 400 lbs of steak and 900 lbs of baked potatoes were a feast for the famished as the Orangeville Lions Club hosted their 28th Lobsterfest at the Tony Rose Memorial Sports Complex this past Sa More...

Local News

Med students checking out Dufferin

As a key part of its ongoing effort to recruit doctors for the area, Dufferin County is playing host to six medical students during Rural Health Week. More...

Photo

Photo/ALAN CLARIDGE MACMASTER PONTIAC BUICK GMC in Orangeville held a special fundraiser last Thursday evening which saw over 150 Maple Lodge barbecued chicken dinners sold. More...

Lobsterfest's success was in fun, not profits

Orangeville Lions Club's 2008 Lobsterfest might not have earned any money for the club's community projects, but "it was a lot of fun, (and) it didn't lose money either," said co-organizer Frank Gray Sr. Mr. More...

Columns

Wanted: another '08 flivver!

Random Reflections

It was 100 years ago that Henry Ford did what no other automaker had dreamed of doing, introducing in the ModelTa car that just about everyone could afford and that met all the real needs of drivers of the day. More...

An issue 'certainly worthy of debate'

National Affairs

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." ... Noam Chomsky, American political activist. Chomsky, the veteran left-wing icon, is like the sort of person who Gilary Massa would admire. More...

Why Toronto's no longer a tourist mecca

Queen's Park

Toronto residents are being asked to do something completely unnatural to attract tourists - smile. More...

Sports

Photo

PLAY BALL. More...

MacMaster Northmen B hold off Mohawks

The MacMaster Pontiac Buick GMC Northmen played with fire, not just once but twice, over this last week. More...

Kings top Dawgs

Not wanting to stay out in the rain for long, the Orangeville Kings took only three innings to improve their 2008 season record to 5-0 with a 16-1 romp over the Alma Dawgs in Intercounty Fastball play at Idlewyld Park on Tuesday evening. More...