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Photo/MIKE MALONEY WEDNESDAY MAY 6TH WAS MCHAPPY DAY and McDonalds restaurants across Canada welcomed local celebrities and guests to join with them to help raise funds for Ronald McDonald House Charities as well as organizations in their local commu More...

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Photo/DAN PELTON SPRUCING UP ROTARY PARK: These students from Mono Amaranth Public School were among those who showed up to collect trash at Rotary Park as part of Tim Hortons Make Orangeville Shine Day on Saturday. More...

Local News

Committee nixes stop-work order request

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

After hard questioning of the forest manager and county CAO by chairman Ed Crewson, the Dufferin County museum committee last Thursday night moved simply to receive about 140 pages of correspondence and maps alleging bylaw contravention by Highlan More...

Daycare firm slams local bylaw

By DAN PELTON Staff Reporter

The area supervisor of a Brampton-based childcare service appeared at Monday's Orangeville Council meeting to protest a local zoning bylaw that permits at-home daycare in single-detached dwellings only. More...

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Photo/DAN PELTON SCIENCE SUCCESS: Eight students from Orangeville District Secondary School competed in the Waterloo-Wellington Engineering and Science Fair and three of them -Emma Heimbecker (gold), Amber Rae (silver) and Lisa Brock (bronze) - came More...

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'Will not let inaccuracies go unanswered'

Mr. Daniher's response to my recent letter contains inaccuracies which I will not let go unanswered. More...

'Mayhem' described at a recent Mulmur council

I attended my first Mulmur Council meeting 14 months ago. Actually, I'd never been to a council meeting of any kind prior to that. More...

A sense of entitlement?

In the April 30, 2009 issue of the Shelburne Free Press & Economist, the Highland Companies states that they "want to work with Melancthon Council and residents "in pursuit of an economic vision..."". More...

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Regional News

Churches bring Iraqi refugee family to Orangeville

By Constance Scrafield-Danby Freelance Contributor

Where better than to the kindly community of Orangeville to bring a refugee family who have fled the terrors of Iraq and waited in Damascus, Syria, for three years for this very moment? More...

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ARRIVING AT PEARSON: Riyadh Abubakr (left), his daughter Kamara, son Hasan and wife Tamara pose at Pearson International Airport after arriving from Damascus, Syria, where the Iraqi family spent three years as refugees before winning admission to Can More...

Main effect of swine flu might be economic

Contrary to rumours, there have so far been no reported cases of swine flu in Dufferin County, and the geographically nearest are one student at a high school in Georgetown and another in Barrie. More...

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Orangeville council wants publicly elected warden

By DAN PELTON & WES KELLER

As Dufferin County Council ponders the alteration of how its various townships are represented and how its warden should be selected, Orangeville council made it clear Monday night that it wants the warden to be chosen by means of a county-wide gen More...

Johnson Controls plant shut down indefinitely

By DAN PELTON Staff Reporter

Employees at Orangeville's Johnson Controls plant were informed last Thursday that production at the plant has been suspended as the parent company awaits the results of Chrysler's bankruptcy proceedings in the United States. More...

Transporting explosives said biggest hazard

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

Hazards related to explosives operations have at least as much to do with transporting them as with plant safety and the environment, a highly placed industry official told this newspaper on a condition of anonymity. More...

Editorial

Chrysler case shows need for bankruptcy law reform

SOMETIMES IT TAKES a crisis to demonstrate a need to reform laws that have stood unchanged for decades. More...

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Electing wardens an idea worth considering

NOW THAT Orangeville council has come out in favour of having future Dufferin wardens elected through county-wide general elections, it's time for everyone to give the idea some serious thought. More...

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Columns

Much ado about the flu

Sometimes I get the feeling that we, as a society, harbour one huge, collective death wish. We just can't wait to embrace the next great menace that's going to wipe out humanity, once and for all. More...

Music to die for

After Danish conductor Thomas Dausgaard led the Toronto Symphony Orchestra's recent performance of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 a newspaper critic called it "music to die for". It was the Russian composer's final work. More...

Remembering the good old days

Evolution! Does this denote progress? There is every reason to question this. After a career going back to the 50's I have to wonder. At least I can be thankful for a half century of memories. In that time frame governments have evolved. More...

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Sports

Northmen B rout Mohawks 9-4

By MIKE MALONEY Sports Editor

The MacMaster Pontiac Buick GMC Northmen continue to work their way through the opening weeks of the 2009 Ontario Lacrosse Association Junior B lacrosse schedule. More...

12 bout card slated for Bigtyme opening

Bigtyme Boxing will be opening the door of their new facility to the public when they hold an open house at the club this Saturday afternoon. More...

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THINK PINK Orangeville Twisters Gymnastics and Trampoline Club welcomed athletes from across southern Ontario to their annual Think Pink Invitational Gymnastics tournament this past weekend. More...

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