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Garage sales springing back up again as community continues lockdown rebound

September 8, 2020   ·   0 Comments

By Paula Brown With the warm temperatures and the sun shining, a number of Dufferin County residents set up and held garage sales on Saturday, ...

Local Food Bank inviting residents to join Feast of Longing event

By Mike Baker The Orangeville Food Bank is drawing inspiration from a different kind of war hero for its upcoming Feast of Longing event.  Taking ...

COVID-19 outbreak declared at Avalon Care Centre, virus contained to single staff member

By Mike Baker Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health (WDGPH) has declared a COVID-19 outbreak at Orangeville’s Avalon Care Centre. In a release to media on Monday (Aug. ...

While not ultra-visible, homelessness is an issue in Dufferin

By Paula Brown & Alyssa Parkhill Tent cities lined under highway bridges, panhandlers sitting on curbs, and bodies curled in sleeping bags along city streets ...

Investigators still working to crack Varaschin murder a decade later

By Paula Brown Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Det. Insp. Shawn Glassford is walking down Dairy Lane, a back laneway in Orangeville, in the late August ...

Council approves swing set addition at Fieldstone Parkette

By Peter Richardson Following on from discussions at a previous Council meeting in July, Mono’s elected officials once again debated whether or not they should ...

Mono Council delays reopening of public buildings

By Peter Richardson Mono Council spent some time this past week pondering when they should open up municipal buildings to the public. Coun. Fred Nix ...

Shame

To the Premier Doug Ford & the Minister of Education Stephen Lecce, I am absolutely livid regarding your return to school plan for the Province ...

Not a believer

By Mike Baker Is anyone else even slightly worried by the news that the Russians are fast-tracking a supposed vaccine for COVID-19? It’s now been ...

Sweet Oblivion

By Anthony Carnovale I’m tired. Truthfully, I’m so tired I don’t even want to write this column.  I don’t want to write; I don’t want ...

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