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TRADING UP: Alec Thompson, a contractors communications coordinator with Home Hardware, revs up the saw in preparation for Wednesday's "Tough as Nails" contractor tradeshow staged by the chain at the Orangeville Fairgrounds. Besides introducing visitors to the latest innovations in contracting tools and technology, contractors from across Canada came to participate in the skills competition which featured such events as nail driving, 2-by-4 cutting and a driver drill competition. More...

With the federal budget-and whatever municipal infrastructure spending it may contain not coming down until next week, Orangeville Council's Budget Committee made few commitments to capital projects at its meeting Monday night. More...

Trevor Lewis, Dufferin County's director of public works and the county's treasury department are unfazed by the record snowfalls of the past few weeks, in part because of its winter maintenance stabilization fund and in part because of its giant new snowblower. More...

Is Melancthon to have Canada's largest single-ownership potato farm or perhaps just the country's biggest open pit aggregate mining and limestone quarry? More...

MEMBER OF THE CANADIAN NATIONAL Under 18 Women's hockey team, Orangeville's own Candice Styles, drops the ceremonial face-off to officially kick off the 31st annual Sweethearts Hockey Tournament hosted by the Orangeville Tigers this past weekend. Over 1,300 players representing a total 74 teams from Orangeville and across Ontario competed over the three days of this event. More...

Headwaters Health Care Centre announced Wednesday that radiologist Dr. Michael Stefanos has joined the hospital's Department of Diagnostic Imaging. "Dr. Stefanos is a valuable addition to our Diagnostic Imaging Department," said Headwaters chief of staff Dr. Jeff McKinnon. "His experience and skill level will enhance the services we are able to deliver to our community. More...
IT SEEMS THAT HARDLY a day goes by without us hearing about a traffic fatality in which alcohol was involved. And suspicions that impaired driving is becoming even more of a threat were buoyed by the release of statistics from festive R.I.D.E. More...
Hope, during dark days
Well, here we are. A full three weeks into 2009, and I haven't yet broken a new year's resolution! I confess I made that easy for myself this year by not making any. More...
I read with interest the article written by Wes Keller that appeared in the January 14, 2009, edition of the Orangeville Citizen entitled, "Council approves strategy on bottled water ban." In the piece, Mr. More...
Dufferin-Caledon MPP Sylvia Jones has called on Premier Dalton McGuinty to order an immediate end to the strike that has left York University students without classes since early November. "It has been almost three months since CUPE 3903, which represents York University employees, has gone on strike. More...
Everyone who has dropped a line into a pond has a story about the one that got away. This weekend, the Shelburne Muskies added one of their own when the Fish let a three goal lead slip away to the Ripley Wolves who scored with 1:45 left on the clock to edge Shelburne 6-5. More...