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Founders’ Fair this weekend

By DAN PELTON Staff Reporter

Downtown Orangeville will be hosting the annual Founders’ Fair & Sidewalk Sale celebration this Friday and Saturday in the downtown area. More...

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Editorial

Safety should outweigh annoyances

NORTHBOUND TRAFFIC on Highway 10 in Orangeville currently encounters six signalized intersections, each of which includes a phase for left-turning traffic. More...

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Sale of AECL muddies Ontario’s power future

I F TIM HUDAK’S Progressive Conservatives win the October 6 provincial election, as now seems likely, there’s at least one area where a Hudakled government is likely to be at odds with its Ottawa-based cousins, the Harper-led Conservative More...

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Liberal electricity direction benefits but a few

Another wonderful feel good message by Brad Duguid to cement our acceptance of the Ontario Liberal Party direction of for profit electricity the other day. More jobs created! Well, you are paying for them..big time. More...

Writing said ‘disrespectful’

I occasionally read Constance Scrafield-Danby’s columns and although I don’t agree with much that she opines about, I must point out a failing which is most irritating from a columnist. Obviously Ms. More...

Human extinction at hand?

The International Medical Veritas Association’s recent medical news commentary, “Radioactive Jet Streams,” gives the findings of Dr. More...

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Sports

Wagner wins on TKO in third

By BRIAN LOCKHART Sports Editor

Orangeville boxer Ryan Wagner won his fourth pro bout with a third round TKO over Jeremy Abbott at Mississauga’s Hershey Centre on Friday, June 24. More...

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Players strive to earn spot in basketball program

Hard work and athletic skill will earn six Bantam age basketball players a spot at the Bantam Development Team camp at Humber College - a part of the Basketball Ontario Elite Development Program and a step towards being selected for the provincial te More...

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Highland remains confident in bid for new quarry

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

In spite of the Ministry of Environment’s (MoE) criticism of The Highland Companies quarry application, the company remains confident that the application will succeed. More...

Holloway poised to be D-C Grit candidate

By DAN PELTON Staff Reporter

A health care executive, triathlete and mother of two from Bolton is poised to be the Dufferin-Caledon Liberal candidate in the next provincial election. More...

Local News

Wind turbine warfare intensifying

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

With three months to go until this year’s provincial election on Oct. 6, the wind turbine wars appear to be intensifying. More...

Serious crash Tuesday closed Highway 10

By DAN PELTON Staff Reporter

An Orangeville man was airlifted to St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto with life-threatening injuries following a Tuesday afternoon collision at the intersection of Highway 10 and Dufferin Road 109. More...

Hearing set on Guelph bid to stop health unit projects

A Guelph courtroom is to be the scene next Monday, July 11, of a bid by Guelph City council for an injunction to stop Wellington Dufferin Guelph Public Health (WDGPH) from incurring costs for the acquisition or construction of capital facilities or f More...

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Columns

From the Global Classroom

Exploration of a nation

From Loretto to Guelph was a minor exploration for me a few years ago. More...

Your Weekly Chuckle . . .

By KEITH HUNTER

FATHER: “I’m worried about you always being at the bottom of your class.” SON: “Don’t worry, Dad. They teach the same thing at both ends.” More...

Our World Today

Lebanon: Another Frame-up?

Here we go again. The Special Tribunal for Lebanon, a United Nations-backed body investigating the killing of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri in 2005, has accused four people of his murder. More...

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Regional News

Royal Canadian Legion News

BY JILL BROYDEN Branch 233, Orangeville More...

Darryl Rutledge: he’s a five-generation cop

By CONSTANCE SCRAFIELD Columnist

He accepts the responsibility of his heritage More...

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