January 2019 Archive

Close battle in Junior C playoff run

By Brian Lockhart With only a few games left on the regular season schedule the Provincial Junior Hockey League is gearing up for what should ...

Our five key priorities for Council

THE CLICHÉ ‘NEW YEAR, NEW ME’ may never need to ring more true than it does today for Orangeville Council. Following more than a decade’s ...

Local option is back

THE TERM ISN’T USED, but the Local Option days of Ontario’s Prohibition era are back, this time in the context of cannabis. Locally, at one ...

The Greenbelt

By Laura Campbell It’s no surprise that my first column of 2019 is about the Greenbelt.  I am an environmentalist after all, and someone whose ...

Maybe Trump has got this right

By Brian Lockhart After eight years of civil war, much of Syria is in ruins.  Many cities are now simply piles of rubble and dust ...

Hurray for the new year

By Constance Scrafield What if tragedy was comedy? Well, it is currently keeping the stand-up business booming. What I’ve been offering with all due seriousness ...

Brexit chicken

By Gwynne Dyer There’s no need to practise bleeding, as the soldiers say, but the British government didn’t get the message. On Monday, it paid ...

‘Love is in the Air’ theme set for 2nd pride, diversity fundraiser

By Mike Baker “Love is in the Air” as a special fundraiser designed to support Dufferin County’s second annual pride and diversity event prepares to ...

OMT starts year with Beauty and the Beast & Mary Poppins

By Constance Scrafield Orangeville Music Theatre, the town’s long-running community theatre, is opening the New Year with two shows: the adult group is doing Beauty ...

Local society recognizing Alzheimer Awareness Month

By Jasen Obermeyer With Christmas behind us, and January being the month when everyone catches their breath from the busy holiday time, it also the ...

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