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SUPPORT FOR SPECIAL OLYMPICS - The 25th Annual Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics was held Wednesday. More...

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A FEAST FOR FUNDS: MacMaster Pontiac Buick GMC held its annual chicken dinner sale at its Highway 9 dealership and sold 480 dinners. More...

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Editorial

Must austerity always be so arbitrary?

THE MAIN ISSUE facing debt-ridden governments here and abroad is clearly the extent to which austerity should replace stimulus as the best route toward economic recovery. More...

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A trip through the country in 1878

Museum Matters

WBy Cosette Pathak hile using one of the microfiche scanners in the Dufferin County Museum & Archives to read a copy of The Orangeville Sun of November 14, 1878, I came across a most interesting article written by an unknown tourist. More...

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From our Mailbox

Smoking bylaw said ‘preposterous’

Subject: anti-smoking bylaw: I am contacting you about your May 10 article concerning the new smoking by-law. The decision to ban smoking on all town-owned land is preposterous and against the Canadian constitution. More...

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Sports

Shelburne Lacrosse

The Shelburne Jr “C” Vets Lacrosse Club has done what it hasn’t done since their start in 2008 and that is win their first two games of the season. More...

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Hill pleased at response from ARA review committee

By WES KELLER
Freelance Reporter

Melancthon Mayor Bill Hill says he got a positive response to his concise, 1,500-word presentation on the Aggregate Resources Act review in Toronto Monday. More...

Meth clinic owner moves to allay public concerns

By DAN PELTON
Staff Reporter

The prospect of a combination pharmacy and methadone treatment clinic opening in the Brenda Plaza at Broadway and Diane Drive as early as next week is causing concern among some local residents. More...

Local News

Stanton Hotel given 10-month reprieve

By WES KELLER
Freelance Reporter

The former Stanton Hotel has won a 10- month postponement of its death, to give its supporters an opportunity to find funding to keep it alive on site or move it to the museum or, one must infer, elsewhere. More...

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DENIM FOR THE CURE: Tuesday, May 15 was marked as National Denim for The CURE. More...

Youth arts festival a huge success

The 15th annual Dufferin Youth Festival of the Arts was a huge success with about 2,000 students attending and performing over the four days last week, May 7-10. More...

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Columns

OBITER DICTA

In lilac time Things said in passing
WILLIAM BOTHWELL

“C ome down to Kew in lilac time; it isn’t far from London”. The invitation is in a poem by Alfred Noyes (1880-1958). More...

National Affairs

CLAIRE HOY

The only thing you really have to know about the marathon – and often violent – strike by the Quebec university mobs is that they invited Paul Rose to speak at one of their rallies. More...

Ontario Matters

How much is a hospital worth? (II)
ROB BREDIN

“Workin the fields till you get your back burned.... You spend your life waiting for a moment that just don’t come. More...

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