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August 5, 2010 RSS feed / Front Page

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KEEP ABATTOIRS OPEN:

Photo/WES KELLER KEEP ABATTOIRS OPEN: Laura Baker and Nate McIntosh (foreground) sign petitions supporting local abattoirs at the WildBoar display at the Hockley farm market Sunday. More...

Golden Fiddle Contest year faces challenges

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

The setting for the Shelburne Rotary’s Golden Anniversary of the Fiddle contest might be a tad less than ideal, but the club has left no stone unturned in its efforts to compensate. More...

Local News

Orangeville enters 2010 Power Pledge Community Challenge

Orangeville Mayor Rob Adams is calling on all residents to participate in Ontario’s province-wide Power Pledge Community Challenge – a friendly competition for bragging rights as Ontario’s most conservation-conscious community. More...

Risk management pilot program extended

The Ontario government is supporting grain and oilseed producers by temporarily extending the sector’s Risk Management Program (RMP) pilot for the 2010 crop year. More...

180 firearm displays

Photo/WES KELLER DENNIS WRIGHT stands by one of about 180 firearm displays at the Orangeville Fairgrounds Sunday. More...

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Columns

In my Opinion

False information is being spread

For the record, there are a number of things that need to be clarified in what has become a battle between some Melancthonites and whomever else. More...

Angles ’n’ Attitudes

An amoral amour

This book lover holds no frequent reader card for which one pays $25 to save an occasional $5. Most of my purchases are made at Orangeville’s BookLore, vendor to Dufferin’s more discriminating readers. More...

From the Global Classroom

Social Studies

I can’t think of any subject more boring. More...

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Sports

Local boxers ready for the main event

By Brian Lockhart Sports Editor

Three minutes doesn’t seem like a lot of time, but in the ring that’s a full round of punishment if things aren’t going your way. More...

Athletic 2-0 over Barrie

The Orangeville Athletic improved their record with a 2-0 win over the Barrie Spirit at Rotary Park in Orangeville on Thursday night. More...

NDNL gears up for playoffs

The North Dufferin Baseball League playoffs get started this week with eight senior division teams qualifying. The teams will play a best of five series to see who will advance to the next round. Bolton will take on Orillia. More...

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Courthouse project now under way

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

Dufferin County’s longawaited courthouse expansion is finally under way, although the only visible progress is a fence along the Zina Street side where a disputed residence has been demolished. More...

Lots of variety at Hockley Resort’s markets

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

There were only six booths at the recently established farmers’ market at the Hockley Resort Sunday, but you could buy anything from wild boar steaks to butter tarts – and it seems there’ll be a lot more at future markets. More...

Complicated waste meeting at Fairgrounds

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

To accommodate all eight lower-tier municipal councils comfortably, Dufferin County Council’s Community Development Committee (CDC) has chosen Orangeville Fairgrounds as its venue for a session next Thursday evening on waste management. More...

Editorial

Is our highest court moving to the right?

PERHAPS IT’S IN RESPONSE to the law-and-order agenda of the Harper Conservatives, and maybe it’s a sign of things to come. More...

Fair’s fair – even in tax levies

MONO COUNCIL’S STANCE on Dufferin’s proposed takeover of the household solid waste (HSW) stream, along with composting and hazardous wastes, is surprising, and in many ways an unfair position for a responsible council to take. More...

Political Cartoon

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Mailbox

‘Our universities can be bought’

Re: Universities showing bit more humanity, by Eric Dowd, July 29 While Ontario’s universities may be showing more “humanity” — and how, really, does one measure this objectively! More...

Please reconsider census plan

An open letter to MP David Tilson; We are writing to add our voice to the growing number of organizations, both large and small, who are urging that the government reconsider its plan to eliminate the mandatory long-form national census and replac More...

Published statements out of context, misleading

In the interview done with me on Monday, July 26 by Dan Pelton which was published on the July 29 issue, I found number of statements to be out of context and misrepresenting what I have said. More...

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Regional News

Royal Canadian Legion News

BY JILL BROYDEN Branch 233, Orangeville

Saturday, August 7th is our combination Trunk, Garage and Bake Sale from 8 am to 2 pm. Come early to get a spot for your vehicle for $10. and display your sale items….. first come, first served. More...

Platoon of recruits named after HMCS Orangeville

A platoon of recruits at Base Borden has been named after HMCS Orangeville, a Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) ship that served our country in the Second World War and was named after the Town of Orangeville. More...

60Contest attracts this Scot’s attention

By Ross Doyle

Currently visiting from a nation with a rich history of celtic and folk music, I find attending Shelburne’s famous annual fiddle festival this weekend is something that really attracts my attention. More...

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