By JAMES MATTHEWS Mono staff never cease the search for ways to lower municipal taxes. Mono resident Rob Martellacci asked town council during its Feb. 25 meeting what is being done to lower ...

By JAMES MATTHEWS The Town of Mono may revisit its means to deal with false alarms to emergency services. False alarms shouldn’t be subsidized by the taxpayers, said a Mono resident who called ...

By Brian Lockhart The Westside Secondary School Thunder senior girls’ volleyball team competed at CWOSSA and had good results. The CWOSSA competition was held at Glenview Park Secondary ...

By Brian Lockhart There’s an old public service commercial from 1970 that a lot of people remember – because it was really well done. It was at a time when people had very little concern for the ...

By Sam Odrowski A staff-led initiative at a local bakery is looking to raise $4,000 for the Orangeville Food Bank. COBS Bread (489 Broadway) is holding a Bread for a Year Raffle from March 8 to ...

By Keith Schell Growing up in the 1970s, it seemed as though everybody and his brother manufactured snowmobiles. Considered the golden age of the snowmobile, the years 1968-1982 featured 250 ...

By Constance Scrafield As early as the beginning of the 1900s there were suggestions that compulsory voting in Australia be made law. Not quite there for another 20 years or so, compulsory voting ...

By Chris Broom The Storm FC U15 Boys met Sporting FC Academy U15 boys on Saturday night (March 1) for the first time since late October, a game that saw Sporting dominate that night, winning 5-1.

By Gwynne Dyer If the Burmese drive General Min Aung Hlaing and his brutal military regime from power, as they seem about to do, the first thing they should do afterwards is take a leaf from Costa ...

Brian Lockhart, in his Feb. 13 opinion piece, mused about how many people “at the protest” actually vote. This backhanded attack on free speech is offensive. I know that all the people who have ...

By Paula Brown, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Dufferin County residents had the opportunity to learn about a commonly forgotten story in Canadian Black History from a local author, focused ...

By Paula Brown Some Melancthon residents are hoping to put a stop to a proposed mega quarry. Concerned members of the community will be hosting a community town hall meeting on Sunday (March 2) ...