January 7, 2010 RSS feed / Front Page

OLYMPIC FEVER

OLYMPIC FEVER gripped Dufferin County last Monday as the torch for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games made its way through the area. More...

Local News

Higher traffic fines said to aid safety, ‘if enforced’

Mega-increases in traffic fines that took effect Jan. 1 might improve public safety, “but only if enforced,” says Walter Kolodziechuk, a retired long-time police officer and now Amaranth’s deputy mayor. More...

Local sounds abound for new music producer

For many, the appeal of the Orangeville area lies in its rustic landscape of rolling hills, meandering rivers and gentle pastoral scenarios. More...

Arson alleged in Violet Hill house fire

A fire that destroyed a home in a Violet Hill estate subdivision has led to an owner facing a charge of arson. More...

Columns

An ‘ah-ha’ moment

Christian Perspectives

A news poll on a local radio station this week reported that some 45% of us will resolve to lose weight or become more active this year; 5% will resolve to quit smoking; 10% of us will try to spend less and 30% of us will refuse to make a resolution More...

Some really cool kids

Meagre Musings

Many of us older types, in the back of our cantankerous conscience, harbour an image of the typical kid as a soulless automaton listening to death metal dirges on his iPod while his nimble fingers massacre hundreds in a game of Grand Theft Auto. More...

1967 + 50 = 2017

Angles ’n’ Attitudes

Iremember getting into my car in Montréal on New Year’s morning, 1968. More...

Sports

Crushers open 2010 with 4-2 win

Orangeville Crushers kicked off 2010 in style, doubling the CCHL Eastern division leading Wellington Dukes with a 4-2 victory at the Alder Street arena Friday night. More...

ACTS hosts U19 National team camp

While many Canadian athletes are down to the final stages of preparation before stepping onto the world stage at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, another group of athletes have their sights set on the summer of 2011. More...

Wolves in promotional clip

Three lucky players from the Orangeville Wolves travelled to Toronto recently to take part in a video being filmed to promote Jakes House, an organization to help families with autistic kids. More...

Quarry opposition seen as $400,000 struggle

Melancthon Township might be finding itself between a rock and a hard place with respect to the forthcoming Highland Companies’ application for a 2,400-acre limestone quarry. More...

Local politicos look to a better year in 2010

For most most Canadians, 2009 was a kidney stone of a year they are glad to see pass. More...

Timing, not change, the hospital ‘crime’

Members of the general medical staff (GMS) at Headwaters Health Care Centre (HHCC) say they are more concerned about their lack of adequate time for consideration of alternatives than about the proposal to move 22 beds to Orangeville from the Shelbu More...

Editorial

2010: a year for recovery or relapse?

PERHAPS ONE OF THE MOST troubling aspects of predictions we’ve seen for this new year is that it will be an improvement on 2009. It’s troubling, if only because it seems that such predictions rarely come true. More...

Fighting the quarry will be costly

IF ANYTHING, the prediction of Toronto lawyer Ian Rowe that Melancthon Township Council will need to budget $100,000 annually if it chooses to fight the Highland Companies proposal to have 2,400 acres of quarries on its land holdings is conservative. More...

Political Cartoon

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Mailbox

Proactive versus reactive enforcement

Mr. Fantino, how typical of a politician, you never did answer the question that was put forth. More...

HST said bad for all

Last week we heard from the lips of John Wilkinson, the Minister of Revenue in the provincial Liberal party that runs this province (into the ground!) that the HST (Harmonized Sales Tax) will lead us to thousands of new jobs, competitively priced pr More...

Setting the record straight

Re: Highland assessment shocks Sanford I want to set a few things straight about various “feelings”, reactions and statements attributed to me by Wes Keller in his article. More...

Regional News

Thousands come out to participate in Olympic torch celebrations

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Pomeroy hits pinnacle of his operatic career on ‘Met’ stage

When a young person, professionally speaking, hits the point he has dreamed about all his professional life, it leaves him on a mighty emotional high. More...