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Girl’s hockey clubs stay on the ice through ‘red’ zone

While the move to the “Red” zone in the region has caused many hockey organizations to temporarily cancel all on-ice activity, many girls hockey clubs ...

Ski hills open back up, with restrictions, for winter fun

Written By BRIAN LOCKHART It only took a few days of colder weather for local ski hills to start producing enough snow to open at ...

Residents continue to be targeted by OEB fraud

Since October of 2020, the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) in Eastern Ontario have received an increased number of complaints from homeowners who have been solicited ...

Impaired driver nabbed by OPP in RIDE check

On Friday, Dec. 11, 2020, uniformed officers from the Caledon Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police were conducting a Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere (RIDE) spot ...

MPP Sylvia Jones reflects back on 2020 and facing COVID-19

Written By PAULA BROWN LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER As 2020 comes to a close, Dufferin-Caledon MPP Sylvia Jones spoke with the Shelburne Free Press to ...

Headwaters Health Care Centre reports two deaths

Written By PAULA BROWN LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER Headwaters Health Care Centre has reported the death of two patients who tested positive for COVID-19, as ...

COVID-19 case count

Dec. 18 (Friday) WDG Region: 37 (New cases), 266 (Active cases), 18 (Hospital) Dufferin County: 10 (New cases), 38 (Active cases), 6 (Hospital) Shelburne: 3 ...

Ontario Declares Santa Claus an Essential Service

Premier Doug Ford issued the following statement on Santa Claus’ annual delivery of gifts: “As children across Ontario count down the days to Christmas with ...

Former Shelburne resident shot in hunting accident

Written By PAULA BROWN LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER A former Shelburne resident and retired Canadian Armed Forces veteran was shot in a hunting incident in ...

Love Jihad

Written by GWYNNE DYER The ‘Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Ordinance’ was passed into law in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Nov. ...