November 13, 2008 RSS feed / Local News

SANTA THROUGH THE GENERATIONS:

Photo/DAN PELTON SANTA THROUGH THE GENERATIONS: Emma Perry, an exhibitor at the annual Christmas crafts show at the Avalon Retirement Centre on Saturday, took time out to pose with her son and co-worker Dylan Sheppard. More...

Royal Canadian Legion News

Legion, Branch 233 is gratified for the excellent turnout from our community and everyone that came to honor our fallen soldiers on Remembrance Day; especially the 2nd CMBG Headquarters and Signals Squadron and the 3rd Royal Canadian Regiment. More...

Majkot launches FOI bid for pay hike details

Richard Majkot has written Orangeville clerk Cheryl Johns in her capacity as the Town's freedom of information officer seeking information related to pay raises town council has granted itself that take effect in January. More...

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COMMUNITY LIVING DUFFERIN and Theatre Orangeville hosted the Upper Canada Chordsman as part of their Building Dreams Together fundraising effort. The audience at Tweedsmuir Presbyterian Church was treated to a chorus of more than 40 singers. More...

BookLore to mark 'Independents Day'

This Saturday, independent booksellers across Canada will roll out the red carpet to launch a new marketing program called "Independents Matter." Tapping into the growing localism movement, Canadian independent booksellers herald a new challeng More...

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SHEDDING LIGHT ON SEXUAL ABUSE: The Sunrise Campaign for awareness of sexual abuse was launched Monday at the Henning Salon on Orangeville's Broadway. More...

Mono Nordic ski swap set for Sunday

The Mono Nordic Ski Club will hold an information session and ski swap this Sunday, Nov. 16, at Monora Park. More...

'Holiday Treasures' at Museum

"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas," especially if you happen to be at the Dufferin County Museum and Archives. More...

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Photo/MARNI WALSH C.W.I. ANNIVERSARY: Shelburne's Christian Women's' Institute celebrated its 30th anniversary on Tuesday. More...

Wynne to speak at Liberal fundraiser

The woman who defeated John Tory in the 2007 provincial election will be the speaker at a Dufferin Caledon Provincial Liberal Association fundraiser tonight. More...

Road allowance an issue at wind farm hearing

The Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) hearing into zoning for the 15-turbine Grand Valley Wind Farm opened yesterday at Grand Valley with Amaranth and East Luther Grand Valley townships at odds over control of a nearby road allowance. More...

Lorriman named awards finalist

Shelburne-area artist Jim Lorriman has been selected as a finalist in the 2009 NICHE Awards for the piece entitled "Fruit of the Vine" in the Wood: Turned category. More...

Safety insurance bill a job killer: Jones

Dufferin-Caledon MPP Sylvia Jones has called on the provincial government to abandon a workplace safety insurance bill which she refers to as "job-killing labour legislation." If passed, the government's Bill 119, the Workplace Safety and Insuran More...

Councillor Bradley abstained from council pay raise vote

As the furore continues over pay raises the mayor and council of Orangeville voted themselves last month, Councillor Sylvia Bradley has disclosed that she abstained from voting on the motion approving a bylaw that makes the raises effective in Janu More...

New ODSS principal at first commencement

Among the recipients of top honours at the Orangeville District Secondary School commencement ceremony last Friday, Maggie Cassidy and Delaney Swanson received the Millennium Scholarship, and Allyson Gibson was awarded the Governor General's medal, More...

Funeral services held for two crash victims

Funeral services were held Tuesday and Wednesday in Shelburne and Orangeville for two Amaranth men who died last Friday when their pickup truck was broadsided by a five-ton truck that Dufferin OPP say drove through a yield sign at the Sixth Line an More...

Dundalk death treated as homicide

Dundalk citizens were shocked to learn that a body discovered in an apartment on Tuesday afternoon was being treated as the result of a homicide. More...

Charge laid in grass fire

Orangeville police have charged a 16-year-old youth in connection with a large grass fire on October 31. At about 2:28 p.m. More...

'Old Fraser Place' highlight of holiday home tour

Many locals will be familiar with the "old Fraser place", on the 2nd Line of Melancthon, as the childhood home of Emily Simes, who passed away this year at the age of 103. More...

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Photo/DAN PELTON DIAGNOSTIC PROGRESS: The Headwaters Health Care Centre celebrated the arrive of its first digital mammography system Wednesday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. More...

MP David Tilson sworn in anew

David Tilson was offi- cially sworn in as MP for Dufferin-Caledon last Friday during a ceremony held at the House of Commons. He was sworn in by the Deputy Clerk of the House with his family looking on. More...