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Inflated water bills on the rise in Orangeville

July 5, 2019   ·   0 Comments

Water: Liquid Gold. In many countries, for many reasons, this may certainly be true. But I’m sure a number of local residents never imagined that ...

Vive la différence!

EDITORIAL THE SITUATION IS UNIQUE. With the possible exception of India and Pakistan, nowhere else in the world do you find two countries with at ...

There must be a reason

SHORT EDITORIAL LESS THAN 20 YEARS AGO, in 2003, the Orangeville Council of the day decided to start installing water meters at all the town’s ...

The biggest of all pickles

By Laura Campbell For a long while now, both detractors and proponents of electric cars have raised the alarm about the intensive mineral mining required ...

Change not always for the better

By Brian Lockhart Imagine living your entire life and never seeing anything change – nothing. The same household tools that were used when you were ...

Dragging two ways

By Constance Scrafield With the recent Celebrate Your Awesome in June, the Drag Show at the Opera House, and the upcoming TroyBoy burlesque at Broadway ...

Nature as a guide

By Doug Skeates There was a time when governments subsidized farmers to eliminate hedge rows so as to  create broader fields hence increasing crop productivity ...

The Brexit cult

By Gwynne Dyer Oscar Wilde described fox-hunting as “the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible.” Brexit may be similarly defined as the unhinged in pursuit ...

Local health unit handed $50,000 to develop program to tackle opioid crisis

By Mike Baker Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health (WDGPH) has been awarded $50,000 to assist with the development of a program designed to improve the collection of ...

OPS arrest three after suspicious fire in Green Street building

By Paula Brown Orangeville Police have arrested and charged three young persons in relation to a suspicious fire that occurred last Wednesday, June 26, at ...

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