June 2018 Archive
The best of three candidates
By Todd Taylor Have you talked to your friends and neighbours about the upcoming provincial election? I bet the conversation covered a large array of ...
Declining to vote a cop-out
A famous politician, probably in a fit of frustration, once referred to Canadians as a ‘nation of whiners.” And there’s a lot of truth in ...
Time for a minority government?
UNLIKE THE UNITED STATES, Canada has a multiplicity of political parties, as evidenced locally by the fact there will be no fewer than seven names ...
16 years and counting
WE WONDER WHETHER founder Larry Kurtz really imagined 16 years ago how successful Orangeville’s Blues & Jazz Festival would become. We see it as nothing ...
16th annual Blues and Jazz to ‘wow’ locals this weekend
By Constance Scrafield The now famous 16th annual Orangeville Blues and Jazz Festival is this weekend, running from Friday, June 1 to Sunday, June 3. ...
Beekeepers reporting heavy losses following harsh winter season
By Jasen Obermeyer This past winter was one for the record books, with extreme cold and warm temperatures that seemed to happen on the fly, ...
Local singer Heather Katz: ‘performing is who i am’
By Constance Scrafield “I was just always singing. Even in school, songs in kindergarten. I went to a Hebrew school for seven years, from six ...
We The Bounce offers fun, physical fitness to locals
By Brian Lockhart New on Broadway in Orangeville is We The Bounce, and their motto says it all. ‘Bouncing around, climbing around, fun and fitness.’ ...
Winston Uytenbogaart’s new book of poems on sale locally
By Constance Scrafield “My wife is a book seller, ex-librarian and as she said ‘Don’t look for any big sales.’ But at BookLore there seems ...
Five Dufferin-Caledon election candidates square off in final Board of Trade forum
By Jasen Obermeyer The final Dufferin Board of Trade candidates’ forum saw a wide variety of topics discussed at Orangeville District Secondary School last Thursday ...
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