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Stream, learn and explore with your Orangeville Library card this fall

September 24, 2026   ·   0 Comments

Autumn has a natural way of guiding us back to our routines. Students return to class, families settle into new schedules, and many lifelong learners ...

The times change, the world moves on

By JAMES MATTHEWS, The world moves on, man. The days are becoming shorter, and the light has thinned. It’s as if the daylight is somehow ...

Space war and other distractions

By Gwynne Dyer When Troy Meink, the chief of the US Space Force, announces for no obvious reason that the United States “now has on-orbit ...

Howling at the Moon

By Constance Scrafield It is just coming up to four o’clock in the morning. I was writing about Lance Secretan, trying to figure out how ...

Howling at the Moon

By Constance Scrafield It is just coming up to four o’clock in the morning. I was writing about Lance Secretan, trying to figure out how ...

A new school year, a new team: Advocating for your child from the start

September brings a fresh start: new teachers, new classrooms, new routines, and often a new team of people supporting your child. For parents of children ...

The old saying, ‘Eat dessert first. Life is uncertain’

By Constance Scrafield There have to be days when, if you are the cook in the family, you rebel. Especially if you have too much ...

The night of the silver corvette

By Keith Schell One early autumn evening when I was still in high school, I had just gotten out of the Friday night late movie ...

Orangeville Public Library offers tools for learning this school year

Back-to-school season brings plenty of excitement to September. The days begin to feel different, routines return, and a new energy fills our community. Whether you ...

Letter re: Gwynne Dyer’s ‘Africa’: Getting history wrong” column (Aug. 27)

Always a good read. Gwynne’s most recent column brought to mind the geography of slavery throughout the world. Slaves existed in almost every region, with ...

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