June 2020 Archive

2020 baseball season may yet be salvaged

By Brian Lockhart Baseball may still have a sporting chance this summer. The Ontario Baseball Association is still monitoring the COVID-19 situation and waiting for ...

Time to open, test and trace

By Tom Claridge DESPITE CALLS by local public health units for an ability to have the anti-COVID-19 rules reflect actual conditions, the Ontario legislature has ...

Frustration, fear beget fury

By Constance Scrafield Most people have a psychological “red line.” That’s the edge in your mind, your patience, tolerance, your ability to compromise – that’s ...

Virtual meetings are working

By Sandy Brown It’s not business as usual, but the business of running this town needs to and has to continue. We are in uncertain ...

Working from home

By Brian Lockhart The media was filled with stories and interviews from top officials this past week encouraging to people to ‘continue to work from ...

Missing logic in life? Learn programming

By Hemant Sangwan Programming is an art of writing a set of instructions (or codes) that computers can understand and perform certain tasks. For example, ...

Race in America

By Gwynne Dyer It’s been a bad week in the United States: six nights of protests, huge anger, rioting and looting in fifty cities, hundreds ...

Dufferin-Caledon to see $12 million investment in rural broadband

By Mike Baker Many rural households across Dufferin-Caledon will soon be introduced to the 21st century, with Southwestern Integrated Fibre Technology (SWIFT) set to invest ...

Single case of COVID-19 identified at Orangeville Walmart

By Brian Lockhart Shoppers seem to have mixed feelings when it comes to visiting the Orangeville Walmart after learning one of the store’s employees recently ...

Town to revitilize much-maligned downtown medians

By Mike Baker The downtown median along Broadway is set to receive a $28,000 facelift this summer.  As part of a several-phase initiative to re-beautify ...

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