August 2022 Archive

Orangeville candidate hopes to bring residents’ voices to council chamber

By JAMES MATTHEWS Grant Spence says he wants to help Orangeville taxpayers be heard by town council. And he hopes to have a prime vantage ...

Former Orangeville CAO of 26 years passes away

By JAMES MATTHEWS Rick Schwarzer passed away Aug. 4. He was 70 years old. Mr. Schwarzer was chief administrative officer at the Town of Orangeville ...

Authors in the Hills of Mulmur returns with cook book focus

By Constance Scrafield “It’s going to be a little twist this time,” said Nancy Frater, founder and owner of BookLore. “These authors are cook book ...

Communities in Bloom

By Martina Rowley July and August are wonderful months, not only because of holidays from school and work and lovely warm weather, they are also ...

Junior C Northmen trailing 3-2 in Meredith Cup championship series

By Brian Lockhart The Orangeville Junior C Northmen are down, but not out, in the Meredith Cup Championship best-of-seven series against the Clarington Shamrox. The ...

Farming is losing to misguided urban politics

By Sylvain Charlebois Most Canadians have never been on a farm, let alone lived on one, which makes more than 98 per cent of our ...

How to read a road map

By Brian Lockhart I was watching a DVD movie the other day from 2008. That’s not really that long ago. In the movie, the character ...

Taiwan: Nancy Pelosi’s last hurrah

By Gwynne Dyer Nancy Pelosi’s brief visit to Taiwan this week caused great if somewhat confected anger in Beijing, but the Chinese Communist regime was ...

Waste not want not

By Doug Skeates The future prosperity of this planet is largely dependent on the ability of humanity to manage land and oceans in a sustainable ...

How to make things happen

By Constance Scrafield The notable hour the sun sets every day, shortening the days is the first testament of the passage of time for me. ...

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