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HAPPY CAMPERS:

Tim Hortons celebrated Camp Day Wednesday at its locations in Orangeville. Camp Day is part of a national drive by the chain, where every penny of each coffee sold is spent on sending over 14,000 kids to either summer or winter camp. More...

OPS welcomes new deputy chief

The Orangeville Police Services (OPS) board has announced the appointment of Wayne Kalinski as Orangeville’s first deputy police chief since 1995, the year Ray Holden retired after 20 years as police chief. More...

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Editorial

Platform credibility gaps: product of public opinions?

SO WHAT IS AN OPPOSITION leader supposed to do when he or she works on an election platform? One choice would be merely to advance proposals that he or she knows would work and benefit the jurisdiction in the next term of office. More...

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Our ratepayers shouldn’t have to pay

CONSIDERING WHO GAINS and who pays for carrying aggregates to the GTA, either the provincial government or the shippers and receivers of the products should be required to maintain all municipal roadways that are being or would be used as haul routes More...

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Mailbox

New technology will work

In your May 26 article on the wastewater pilot project showing promise, the following statement is incorrect, but even so, the new technology would seem to take care of that. More...

Reader ‘very concerned’ with food

Recently I have become very concerned about the food we eat. A year ago, our Women’s Institute branch started investigating the situation whereby small abattoirs and meat plants were closing at an alarming rate in Ontario. More...

Amaranth residents oppose proposed sale of dump

The following open-letter to the Amaranth Mayor Don McIver and Amaranth Council was submitted for publication. More...

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Sports

Off season means train harder

By BRIAN LOCKHART Sports Editor

You would think that the end of the season means hockey players would take it easy and switch to golf or hanging out at the beach. But for those players who are aiming for a higher level career, the off season means taking it up a notch. More...

Northmen Peewees have two wins and a tie

The Lord Dufferin Dental Centre Peewee 2 Northmen picked up two wins and a tie to improve their record to 3-0-2. Last Wednesday Orangeville travelled to face Newmarket 1 in a tight back and forth game. More...

HIGH LEVEL TRAINING:

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‘Like living in a microwave oven’

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

If the independent findings and conclusions of an electrical engineer are correct, Theresa Kidd and her family were living “inside a microwave oven environment” near the TransAlta transformer substation in Amaranth until forced out by ill More...

THE DUFFERIN YOUTH FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS

gave out two awards of merit last week at Princess Margaret Public School. This is the third year these awards have been given to teachers who have made valuable to music and arts education. More...

NDACT heightens quarry siege

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

Heartened by “a record number” of pre-deadline responses to The Highland Companies 2,316-acre quarry application, North Dufferin Agricultural and Community Taskforce (NDACT) is calling for the public to seek a provincial Environmental Ass More...

Local News

Shelburne sticks to 2.18% tax rise

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

The main focuses of Shelburne Council as it gave final approval to its 2011 budgets Monday evening were on the status of infrastructure and on awarding a $196,000 tender for a combination truck and snowplow. More...

Her target: to run diabetes out!

By LINDSEY PAPP Staff Reporter

By LINDSEY PAPP Staff Reporter Stephanie Doyle is taking on the fundraising challenge of running marathons to fund a cure for diabetes. More...

A PSYCHIC SOJOURN

was taken by visitors to the Greystones Inn on Sunday. One of the oldest buildings in Orangeville, the Greystones is said to be home to a number of ghosts. More...

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Columns

With Your Permission

Taking a bow with everyone else

I t takes all kinds to make the world, they used to say, but they did not believe it. Until, really, very recently, there has been a sour and suspicious attitude toward anyone not white, Anglo- Saxon or Protestant. More...

Dipping Into the Past

Elba father, son nearly died from accidental dose of belladonna

125 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 3, 1886 More...

How Good a Neighbour are you?

“Who is that man and what is he doing to my daughter or her car?” I anxiously thought to myself. I had become alarmed! My fatherly protection instincts were my first reaction. More...

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Regional News

MNR braces for Asian carp invasion

BY DAN PELTON Staff Reporter

The Great Lakes are being threatened by a gluttonous, destructive and fertile foe that threatens to wipe out native fish species, devastate sport and commercial fisheries, and cause far-reaching changes to the Great Lakes ecosystem. More...

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