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July 15, 2010 RSS feed / Front Page

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FOUNDERS DAY

Photo/MIKE MALONEY FOUNDERS DAY festivities brought out thousands to downtown Orangeville over this past weekend. More...

Rail security signage issue deferred

By DAN PELTON Staff Reporter

The issue of purchasing and installing no-trespassing and no-dumping signage on the town-owned railway has been deferred until the next Orangeville Council is in place after the Oct. 25 election. More...

Local News

Sports business venture seeks local home

By DAN PELTON Staff Reporter

A proposal to build a state-of-the-art athletic training facility and public recreation centre has the enthusiastic support of Orangeville Council, which now must find a place to build this imposing facility. More...

Tire Discounter triples sales in 3 years

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

While the rest of the world is talking about ways to recover from a universal economic recession, how would an Orangeville company go about literally trebling its business in the short space of three years? More...

Headwaters to probe heart patient’s complaint

By LINDSEY PAPP Staff Reporter

Cholly Boland, president and CEO of Headwaters Health Care Centre, says the hospital will investigate a complaint it received from a Mono resident concerning its response to indications he faced a possible heart attack. More...

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Debt putting town at mercy of developers

Re: Council weighs in on municipal debt More...

Real issue said ignored

RE: Claire Hoy Misses Point” (July 1 edition) Claire Hoy, in his July 1 column, basically ignores the real issue bothering many Canadians about the G8 and G20 meetings. More...

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Regional News

Royal Canadian Legion News

BY JILL BROYDEN Branch 233, Orangeville

Thank you to all who supported our 50’s & 60’s Dance on Founders’ weekend, it was a big success. More...

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Sports

Northmen B - ‘back’s to the wall’

By MIKE MALONEY Sports Editor

It's down to wire for the MacMaster Pontiac Buick GMC Northmen. More...

ORANGEVILLE STALWART

ORANGEVILLE STALWART Carly Quinn blows past the Brampton Excelsior defense on the way to a 13-5 win in Ontario Women’s Senior Division field lacrosse play at the Princess Elizabeth pitch on Tues More...

PETERBOROUGH LAKERS

PETERBOROUGH LAKERS defender Joel Wasson-McQuigge tries to contain Orangeville Northmen Adam Jones in game one action of their Ontario Lacrosse Association Junior A quarter-final series. More...

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Courthouse tender finally approved

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

Following a full hour of discussions behind closed doors last Thursday, Dufferin County Council voted to approve an $8.6-million tender for the long-awaited courthouse expansion. More...

OMB approves OP, zoning for Orica explosives

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

In a 10-page decision released June 30 but not yet posted on its website, the Ontario Municipal Board has ruled that Orica Canada Inc. may continue its explosives storage operations at a longestablished site near Luther Marsh. More...

AUDITING ENERGY:

AUDITING ENERGY: Orangeville conservation coordinator Pietra Velinor dropped by the home of Orangeville Mayor Rob Adams to provide him with kits that monitor energy consumption and find leaks that can lose heat and drive up hydro bills. More...

Editorial

Why current policy on AECL makes no sense A

AN INDEPENDENT assessment of the various technologies used in the world’s nuclear power plants would likely rank CANDU among the best, at least in terms of safety, reliability and potential longevity. More...

The risks: real or imagined?

ORANGEVILLE COUNCILLORS acted wisely, in our view, when they decided, sitting as directors of the town-owned Orangeville-Brampton Railway, against acting on suggestions that No Trespassing signs be erected along the short line’s right-of-way th More...

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Columns

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The Longhouse

In the beautiful replica of, or rebuilt, village of Ste. Marie Among the Hurons, near Midland, there is a Longhouse. More...

Christian Perspectives

What does God say about racism?

In a recent Globe and Mail there was a great spread on a book that is now fifty years old, and going strong. To Kill a Mockingbird is still on our grade nine English curriculum, and long may it stay there. More...

Dipping Into the Past

CPR rules barred local stops for special trains with returning troops

125 YEARS AGO Thursday, July16, 1885 More...

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