April 23, 2009 RSS feed / Regional News

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Youth arts festival runs May 4-8

By CONSTANCE SCRAFIELD-DANBY Columnist
(Accompanied by the Orangeville Citizen's intrepid co-op student, Rebekkah Grant, I dashed off for a day's worth of visiting to nine of the 24 participating schools, with no intention of favouritism - only using the time and space available to giv More...

Lower tier municipalities lose Chamber votes

By DAN PELTON Staff Reporter

In what it says is an effort to be a body that truly represents business, the Greater Dufferin Area Chamber of Commerce has changed its constitution and taken voting rights away from the county's eight lower-tier municipalities. More...

Restoring rail means jobs, cleaner environment: study

The Highland Railway Group says a restored railway north of Orangeville will mean jobs, a cleaner environment and local economic development. More...

Dufferin's famous woolly mammoth bone on display

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

A woolly mammoth skeleton unearthed in Amaranth Township 122 years ago is on display at the Smithsonian Institute but it's missing one thing — a massive leg bone that Bev Matthews has inherited, and which he will display at his Circle Motors More...