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February 4, 2010 RSS feed / Front Page

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ORANGEVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL

ORANGEVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL held its Options program Friday, where students could sign up for a choice of drama, creative arts, webcam claymation, Irish dance and pottery. More...

AlterNRG clarifies critic’s data

By WES KELLER

Dufferin County could move closer to 100 per cent diversion from landfill sites with completion of the proposed thermal treatment and organics composting facilities along with continuation of the recycling (Blue Box) program, AlterNRG indicates in a More...

Local News

Town introduces bicycle lanes on Hansen Blvd.

Originally designed as a four-lane arterial street, Orangeville’s Hansen Boulevard has been redesigned as a multiple-use street with two lanes for through vehicular traffic, a centre turning lane and the town’s first bicycle lanes at eit More...

Jones says deal means dire consequences

By DAN PELTON

Dufferin-Caledon MPP Sylvia Jones says the Ontario government’s recent $7 billion deal with a South Korean consortium to bolster the province’s green technology industry will have dire consequences for electricity consumers. More...

WESTMINSTER UNITED CHURCH

WESTMINSTER UNITED CHURCH was a musical venue on Saturday as the Bluesberries were in town to perform, and teach those in attendance about, the various forms of jazz music; from Dixieland to Beebop to Cool to Fusion. More...

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Mailbox

More letters regarding play cancellation

I am very concerned with a series of events that happened at Centre Dufferin District High School this past week. More...

Bottled water like smoking?

Wouldn’t the world be a better place if drinking water from a plastic bottle was as socially unacceptable as is smoking today? More...

Mr. Tilson,

You seem to be under the impression that the demonstrators were mostly “Liberals”. More...

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Sports

32nd Annual Orangeville Tigers Sweethearts Tournament

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Muskies double up 6-3 over 81’s

By MIKE MALONEY

One game doesn't make a series but if the outcome of Saturday night's game in Shelburne is any indication, Palmerston can soon start booking spring vacations after the Muskies took game one of their WOAA Northern Division quarter - final; doubling u More...

HARKING BACK

HARKING BACK to the game’s Scottish origins, the Orangeville Curling Club took to the frozen surface of Island Lake this past Saturday, hosting their inaugural Classic Pond Spiel. More...

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Appeal court reverses rail conflict ruling

By DAN PELTON & WES KELLER

Ontario’s highest court has given the green light for Orangeville’s representatives on Dufferin County Council to debate and vote on the proposed sale of a county-owned railbed to the Highland Group. More...

Ryan challenging Haddock for Mono mayoralty

By DAN PELTON

As voters across the province prepare to be hit by hot air fronts in 2010, an election year, few candidates have, so far, officially announced their intentions to run for municipal office. More...

ORANGEVILLE CRUSHERS

ORANGEVILLE CRUSHERS FORWARD Griffen Lacey hustles after the puck in CCHL play in Streetsville on Sunday night. Despite falling behind 3-0 in the first, Orangeville battled back to take a 6-5 over-time victory. More...

Editorial

Two democracies on widely divergent paths

THEY SHARE A CONTINENT, a similar heritage and a common language, and both see themselves as democratic. Yet they currently are on divergent paths. More...

A most welcome decision

NO MATTER WHERE ONE stands on future development of Dufferin County’s rail corridor, there is reason to rejoice in the Ontario Court of Appeal ruling that local taxpayers should not be disenfranchised when their municipality has a pecuniary int More...

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Columns

Five years of Abiding Place Fellowship

Christian Perspectives
Rev. Gord Horsley

It has been five years since Abiding Place Fellowship was established here in Shelburne. Wow the time sure flies! When sit back and recall all the Lord has done through Abiding Place, I am amazed! More...

The captain plays the count

Angles ’n’ Attitudes William Bothwell

Christopher Plummer whom we once knew as the dashing Austrian Captain Georg von Trapp plays aged Russian Count Leo Tolstoy in the new film The Last Station. It is based on Jay Parini’s 1990 novel of the same name. More...

And who, pray tell, is being ‘hateful’ here?

National Affairs
Claire Hoy

Martin Luther King and his wife Coretta Scott King understood “hate.” They not only lived through it, they overcame it in spectacular fashion. So we should take notice when Coretta said, “hate is too great a burden to bear. More...

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