Headwaters welcomes first baby of 2025

Written By PAULA BROWN LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER Headwaters Health Care Centre (HHCC) has welcomed the hospital’s first baby of 2025. Orangeville residents Alyssia Fullington and Giovanni Altrui said they started the new year off in “the best way possible” ...

Mulmur Mayor elected as Dufferin County Warden

Written By PAULA BROWN LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER Mulmur Mayor Janet Horner has been elected as the 148th Warden of Dufferin County. Horner was elected ...

Great Big Sea tribute band performing at Grace Tipling Hall Friday

Written By PAULA BROWN LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER Shelburne residents will have the opportunity to hear songs from one of Canada’s most well-known bands performed ...

Food Bank hits fundraising goal for food rescue van

Written By PAULA BROWN LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER The Shelburne Food Bank, Shepherd’s Cupboard, has reached its fundraising goal to purchase a food rescue van ...

Dufferin Community Foundation announces 2024 fall grant recipients

Written By PAULA BROWN LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER Dufferin Community Foundation (DCF) has awarded its 2024 fall grants to five recipients. The local community foundation ...

Commemorative sculpture unveiled at Family Transition Place

Written By PAULA BROWN LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER A local artist Ann Randeraad is looking to spread hope and awareness of gender-based violence with the ...

Shelburne–Orangeville transit route extended until March 2025

Written By PAULA BROWN LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER Riders who use the weekday transit system to travel between Shelburne and Orangeville will continue to have ...

Town signs agreement to implement automated speed enforcement

Written By PAULA BROWN LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER Shelburne Town Council has approved an agreement to start a three-year pilot project for automated speed enforcement ...

Local Tim’s Hortons owner receives Paul Harris Fellow Award

Written By PAULA BROWN LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER The Rotary Club of Shelburne has recognized the charitable contributions of a local business owner with a ...

Shelburne Fire Department Board to be dissolved

Written By Paula Brown Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Shelburne Town Council is supporting a decision to dissolve the Shelburne & District Fire Board. During their ...

Mulmur mayor honoured with King Charles III Coronation Medal

Written By Paula Brown Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A member of Dufferin County Council has been recognized for her contributions to the community. Janet Horner, ...

Leaders rise to the top moving into second half of Junior C hockey season

Written By BRIAN LOCKHART With the new year, the Provincial Junior Hockey League is now moving into the second half of the regular season schedule ...

Hornets continue to dominate PJHL’s North Carruthers Division in first place

Written By BRIAN LOCKHART The Alliston Hornets continue to dominate the North Carruthers Division of the Provincial Junior Hockey League after winning three more games ...

CCDHS Royals juniors in second place after win over Westside

Written By BRIAN LOCKHART The Centre Dufferin District High School (CDDHS) Royals junior boys’ basketball team are in second place in the District 4 standings ...

CDDHS girls varsity hockey team have a good start to the season

Written By Brian Lockhart The Centre Dufferin District High School Royals girls varsity hockey team had a good start to the season winning two games ...

Junior C hockey approaching mid-way mark in the regular season

Written By BRIAN LOCKHART The Provincial Junior Hockey League (PJHL) is approaching the halfway mark in the 2024/25 season and the standings are definitely showing ...

Centre Dufferin Royals move into third place after win over Erin

Written By BRIAN LOCKHART The Centre Dufferin District High School (CDDHS) Royals varsity boys hockey team are in third place after a win over the ...

Alliston leads Junior C standings – only undefeated team in the league

Written By BRIAN LOCKHART The Alliston Hornets continue to maintain first place in the North Carruthers Division of the Provincial Junior Hockey League after 16 ...

CDDHS Royals senior girls compete at CWOSSA basketball

Written By BRIAN LOCKHART The Centre Dufferin District High School Royals senior girls basketball team competed at CWOSSA on Fri. Nov. 15, and Sat. Nov. ...

Centre Dufferin senior boys soccer team compete in the District 4 championship

Written By BRIAN LOCKHART The Centre Dufferin District High School Royals senior boy’s soccer team went to the District 4 championship on Wednesday, Oct. 30. ...

Alliston Hornets dominating Carruthers Division, remaining undefeated

Written By BRIAN LOCKHART The Alliston Hornets have moved into first place in the Carruthers Division of the Provincial Junior Hockey League and are dominating ...

2024 Year In Review

Rewinding Back To The Top News Highlights of 2024 Attention Readers! For the first edition of the Shelburne Free Press in 2025, we’re taking you ...

Shelburne Public Library shares weekly news

Happy New Year! Upcoming Events Our Seniors Tech Tutoring appointments are available on Thursdays (5pm-7pm). It’s the perfect opportunity to ask your tech questions in ...

Charges laid against suspicious Amaranth man

A call to local police regarding a suspicious person in Amaranth resulted in charges relating to impaired driving, possession of an unauthorized weapon, property obtained ...

Dufferin Muslim Centre fundraising for local mosque with dinner fundraiser

Written By PAULA BROWN LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER The Dufferin Muslim Centre will be hosting its first fundraising event in the hopes of raising donations ...

Shelburne Public Library shares weekly news

Holiday Hours: The Shelburne Public Library is closed from Dec. 24 to 26 and Dec. 31 to Jan. 2. It is open Dec. 27 (10 ...

Shelburne Public Library shares weekly news

Holiday Hours: The Shelburne Public Library is closed from Dec. 24 to 26 and Dec. 31 to Jan. 2. It is open Dec. 27 (10 ...

Town to supplement rental costs of health centre to retain physicians

Written By PAULA BROWN LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER Shelburne Town Council will be supplementing the rental cost of a medical facility for three local doctors ...

Looking back at 2024: A Year in Review with MP Kyle Seeback

The year is quickly coming to an end and what a year it was locally and nationally. There were many community highlights that made me ...

The Ontario SPCA and Humane Society celebrates its 8000th spay, neuter surgery in 2024

The Ontario SPCA and Humane Society has achieved a significant milestone to close out 2024. The not-for-profit organization is celebrating the completion of over 8,000 ...

Smart Headwaters campaign receives donation

Written By Sam Odrowski The Allan and Anne Thompson Community Fund is joining the hundreds of businesses, community partners and philanthropic residents who have donated ...

Christian Perspectives: Be a peacemaker

“Peace, peace, they say when there is no peace!” the prophet Jeremiah declared. Let me tell you about Alfred. It was the turn of the ...

Christian Perspectives: A new way of seeing

By Penny Lewis Christ Church Bolton I just love Canada. I am a very patriotic Canadian. I feel blessed to have been born in ...

Christian Perspectives: Understanding the Easter Story

Rev. Stephanie Pellow In the past week or so we have seen almost all the seasons represented. We have experienced the grey, dull rainy ...

Christian Perspectives: A nudge along the path

By Ann McCallum, Executive Director Highlands Youth for Christ Towards the end of February, when we had a few days of mild weather, I ...

Christian Perspectives: Conscience

By Norm Copeland Bethel Bible Chapel The conscience. We all have one. Though we all have one, it is like a fingerprint, unique to ...

Christian Perspectives: Our world is hungry for a blessing

By Janet Sinclair, Minister Knox Presbyterian Church, Grand Valley Jesus chose a way of life that was misunderstood by many. He sometimes scandalized the ...

Christian Perspectives: Biggest problem facing the world today

By Rev. Gord Horsley Abiding Place Fellowship The biggest problem facing the world today is not terrorism, racism, global warming, religious differences, the economic ...

Christian Perspectives: Does the Sun Stop Shining?

By Reverend Barbara Moulton As I sit at my desk at home today, I look out my window and see blue sky and sunshine. ...

Christian Perspectives: A New Day has come

By Dr. Vincent Sterling Power of Faith Pentecostal Ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters, a new day has come to Shelburne, Orangeville, and surrounding ...

Christian Perspectives: Going on a journey

By Penny Lewis Christ Church Bolton Do you like to travel and go on a journey? If so, you have to figure out where ...

Eight simple steps to make your will and power of attorney rock solid

By Brandon Jones Creating a comprehensive will and power of attorney (POA) is essential. It’s the only way you can ensure your intentions are honoured ...

Watch where you step

By Brian Lockhart The world has always been pretty innovative when it comes to thinking up new ways to kill your neighbour. First, it was ...

Exploding pagers: What was the point?

By Gwynne Dyer The exploding pagers that killed at least 12 people and injured 2,800 others in Lebanon and some adjacent places on Tuesday were ...

Building maintenance

By Brian Lockhart Commerce Court in downtown Toronto is a huge skyscraper that once dominated the skyline. It has 57 stories and is 942 feet ...

Biden is now a Lost Cause

By Gwynne Dyer It really doesn’t matter whether Joe Biden is in peak condition intellectually during a second term as president. He did some useful ...

Go west young man!

By Brian Lockhart In the two or three years after I graduated high school, there was a mass exodus of Ontarians heading west. Thousands of ...

Killing Darya Dugina

By Gwynne Dyer “I am a political observer of the International Eurasianist Movement and an expert in international relations…. In this capacity, I appear on ...

One person’s junk

By Brian Lockhart When I was a kid, maybe seven years old, I received a rather fun toy at Christmas one year. It was a ...

A hollow victory

By Brian Lockhart From the Second Row It was 1975, and the rooftop of the American embassy in Saigon became a makeshift heliport as Huey ...

Too big to be equal?

Gwynne DyerOur World Today Never mind the destruction of the relatively free society of Hong Kong (no emergency airlift like Kabul, but the number of ...

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