September 2024 Archive
Educate instead of indoctrinate
By Michael Zwaagstra Students across Canada are now back in classrooms. As the new school year begins, let’s encourage schools to focus on what matters ...
Dear Editor,
Common sense should tell us that funding the purchase of electric school buses should be the top priority, to reduce carbon emissions in transportation. School ...
Piano lessons and the cat
By Keith Schell One afternoon in late September, just after I had bought my house in the city in the early 1990’s, I had a ...
SPCA reducing adopting fees for its over 200 animals waiting to be adopted
By Paula Brown The Ontario SPCA Orangeville and District Animal Centre is hoping to help its longest-term residents find loving homes by hosting an adoption ...
Local high school student’s art featured at Shelburne Town Hall Art Gallery
By Paula Brown A 16-year-old Dufferin County artist is sharing her collection of work with the community at her debut exhibit. Alexandra Scott, a ...
Suspected drug overdoses increase in Dufferin-Caledon
By JAMES MATTHEWS There’s weight in numbers. And there’s a particular heaviness in the numbers that indicate a stark reality, the realization of which seems ...
Dufferin County extends Rural Water Quality Program funding for five years
By Paula Brown, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Dufferin County has extended its commitment to the Grand River Conservation Authorities’ Rural Water Quality Program (RWQP) for ...
Dufferin County holding events for Emancipation and TRC Day
By Paula Brown Dufferin County residents have been invited to commemorate Emancipation Day and the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation at two upcoming events. ...
Three men charged with mischief in downtown Shelburne
By Sam Odrowski Officers from the Dufferin Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) charged three people with mischief and alcohol related offences over the ...
Three people charged with impaired driving in Orangeville
Three drivers were recently charged with impaired driving related offences by officers from the Dufferin Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP). Officers from Dufferin ...
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