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FAMILY TRANSITION PLACE

Photo/DAN PELTON FAMILY TRANSITION PLACE held its fourth annual summer camp at Mono Community Centre this year. More...

POLICE OFFICERS from the Shelburne and Orangeville Police departments display some of the drugs and cash seized during an early morning raids at nine locations throughout Dufferin County Tuesday Morning. More...

Local News

Phone scam artists target elderly

By DAN PELTON Staff Reporter

A worried woman entered the Meaford post office recently, anxious to respond to her grandson’s plea for help and send $2,000 to a location provided over the telephone. More...

RAISING AWARENESS.

Photo/DAN PELTON RAISING AWARENESS. More...

International kids show coming to Orangeville

By LINDSEY PAPP Staff Reporter

What does the largest extreme obstacle course in Canada look like? Well, marblemedia and Corus Entertainment are going to show you in their newest physical game show Splatalot. More...

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Columns

Royal Canadian Legion News

BY JILL BROYDEN Branch 233, Orangeville

This Saturday, July 10th, we are kicking off Founders’ with a Beer Tent at 2 pm. Get out your bobby sox and blue suede shoes and get in on our 50’s & 60’s Dance from 8 pm to midnight. More...

Christian Perspectives

Margin

Jim Rintoul

I’ve been thinking about margin in our lives lately and how in today’s society we seem to be filling our lives with so with so many ctivi- ties, we are near or over the limit that we can handle. More...

Angles ’n’ Attitudes

To know, to like

To “Idon’t know much about art but I know what I like”, she said. More...

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Sports

Northmen B’s axe Warlords in four

By MIKE MALONEY Sports Editor

What a difference a year makes. This time last year a less than focused group of Northmen players watched the Junior B play-offs unfold from the sidelines after having failed to earn them selves a berth in the post season. More...

Storm soccer scores

Orangeville Minor Soccer Club scores for the week of June 21th to June 24, 2010 Under 6 Boys Dairy Queen Teal 9 Guest Wok 1 Heirloom Kitchens 3 Expect Respect 7 DQ White 3 Minute Man Press 2 Under 6 Girls Arthurs Fuel 4 First Street Optical 2 More...

Marchand holds first round lead

Verona, ON- Brittany Marchand of Orangeville claimed a two-stroke lead following first round play at the Investors Group Ontario Junior Girls’ Championship on Tuesday at Rivendell Golf Club in Verona, Ontario. More...

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33 arrests in county-wide drug bust

By DAN PELTON Staff Reporter

A five-month drug investigation, involving the co-operation of several police forces, culminated in nine early-morning raids Tuesday that resulted in more than 130 drug charges and 33 arrests in Orangeville, Shelburne, Mono, Melancthon and East Gara More...

County Council asked to consider rail/trail option

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

In the face of a decision by its rail sub-committee to spend some time deciding where to go from here, Dufferin County Council will be asked to consider a multi-use trail proposal. More...

Rain or shine, it’s party time!

By DAN PELTON Staff Reporter

For the past three years, Mother Nature has tried to be a party pooper when it comes to the annual two-day Orangeville Founders’ Fair; disrupting the festivities with frequent rain. More...

SHELBURNE ACCESSIBILITY:

Photo/WES KELLER SHELBURNE ACCESSIBILITY: Pictured at the announcement of new accessibility awards in Shelburne are, left rear, Mayor Ed Crewson, Councillor Walter Benotto, Mike Kelly and accessibilit More...

Editorial

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Accidents waiting to happen

ONE THING ONTARIO’S Ministry of Transportation (MTO) cannot be accused of is consistency. More...

Police need guidelines on appropriate responses T

THERE’S LITTLE DOUBT that a public inquiry is needed concerning the G20 Summit, if only to produce recommendations for any future such summit on Canadian soil. More...

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Mailbox

The ‘facts’ around the creation of Israel

Eric Dowd, in his article “A timely show of sympathy for the Palestinians” (June 20) does not seem to remember the history of events around the time of the creation of the State of Israel! What are the facts? More...

Letter writer responds to three articles

Please accept this as my response to “Unhelpful Criticism” , “County vigilantly investigating proposal” from June 17, 2010, as well as “Sounds like a good deal” from June 24, 2010. More...

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Regional News

Amber Marshall - Living the perfect life in the perfect role

By Constance Scrafield-Danby Freelance Contributor

Amber Marshall says her life changed “100%” within a single week when she was offered the starring role of Amy in Heartland, CBC’s endearing Prairie series. More...

Orangeville Citizen/Free Press and Economist Kings shutout Merchants and Knights

Orangeville Kings continue to roll up the wins in intercounty fastball play. For the Kings, it's been the defense that has been the star of the past two games, posting back-to-back shutouts against Arthur and Maryhill. More...

Shelburne homeowner showcases primitive home

By LINDSEY PAPP Staff Reporter

Imagine opening you home once a year to members of the public to walk through and admire or criticize at their leisure. Well, Sandie Maldonado does it with relish to show off her Primitive home to anyone looking. More...

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