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IN MONO, CHRISTMAS season is not officially over until Bob Shirley and the boys have put your tree through the chipper at the annual Mono Winterfest. The unseasonably mild temperatures Sunday were a factor leading to a large turnout for this year’s event, held at Mono’s Community Centre in Mono Centre. More...

By an almost unanimous vote Tuesday night, the board of directors of Headwaters Health Care Centre approved a budget predicated on what amounts to the closing of its Shelburne campus. Represented as a $1.8-million saving to HHCC, the budget came despite objections from medical staff representatives Drs. More...

A spokesman for the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation MPAC) said Monday that it plans to appeal a December decision by the provincial Assessment Review Board ARB) to change an Orangeville sign-making business’s tax classification to commercial from industrial. More...

Increases the charges Orangeville residents will face this year for water usage and wastewater treatment will likely be close to those of previous years, says the town’s managing director of environmental and development services. More...

FLOWERS FOR HAITI: Parsons’ Florists on Townline Road is one of a number of businesses, organizations and individuals rallying to help the victims of Haiti’s devastating earthquake. Parsons’ staff, including Chris McCoy (left) and Marie Hore, will be selling carnations at $24 a dozen with all the proceeds going to the Red Cross in its efforts to aid the victims. More...

Preparations for the 2010 Town budget began in earnest Monday and a three-hour Orangeville Council session ended with the town-only increase in property taxes standing at 2.6 per cent, or about $60 on a home assessed at $250,000. When combined with the county and education levies, the overall tax increase would be just 1.5 per cent, says town treasurer Bill McKennan. More...
THE CASES OF STEPHEN Truscott and Robert Baltovich are remarkably similar, except when it came to the matter of compensating them for their wrongful murder convictions. More...
Christian Perspectives
What a week of horrors! I can think of no other way to describe it. The images we’ve seen on TV of the devastation in Haiti are indescribably terrible. I’ve been trying to put myself in their place, trying to imagine how it would be if such a catastrophe happened here. More...
re: NDACT meeting, Jan. 16, 2010, Honeywood - ie. the Melancthon/Mulmur quarry issue “Ask Not...?” More...
The 1849 Lorne Scots Cadet Corp will be having a Turkey Dinner with all the trimmings on Friday Jan 22 from 5pm to 7pm at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 233 @ $10.00 per person. This Fundraising event is in conjunction with Scotia bank. All are Welcome Come out and join us for Karaoke on Saturday Jan 23, 2010 with host Neil Walsh from 9pm- 1am. Members and guests welcome. More...
With the playoffs looming just around the corner, Orangeville Crushers continue their winning ways and edging their way up the Central Canadian Hockey League Western Division standings. Playing both games at home, Orangeville staged a come-frombehind 6-5 victory over the Dixie Beehives on Friday night before upsetting Cobourg 4-3 in overtime on Saturday. More...