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Shelburne Curling Club looking for new members

Written By Brian Lockhart If you’re looking for a new sport and appreciate the social aspects of playing, the Shelburne Curling Club hopes you will ...

Centre Dufferin girls’ varsity team plays first game of the season

Written By Brian Lockhart The District 4 girl’s high school basketball season is underway with the Centre Dufferin District High School varsity team on the ...

Drugs and stolen vehicles seized with search warrant

Officers from the Dufferin Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) seized a quantity of drugs and recovered two stolen vehicles in the Town of ...

OPP lays impaired operation charges on two drivers

Dufferin OPP officers have charged two drivers with impaired opertion. On September 20, 2023, at approximately 8:00 p.m., a Dufferin OPP officer conducted a traffic ...

Collingwood woman, 59, dies in two-vehicle collision in Mulmur

Members of the Dufferin Detachment of the OPP, along with Dufferin County EMS, and Fire Services attended a serious two-vehicle collisions in Mulmur. On Sept. ...

Charges laid in multi-vehicle collision in Melanchton

Written By Paula Brown Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Dufferin OPP have laid charges against a transport truck driver in connection to a seven vehicle collision ...

Top plowmen named over weekend

After four days of focused-concentration and attention to detail in the fiercely-competitive plowing competition, the judges’ scores were tallied and the winners announced at last ...

Ontario’s new Queen of the Furrow named

In a celebratory evening that saw the top competitive plowmen awards handed out, it was also the night when the new Ontario Queen of the ...

Why Canada needs an economic charter of rights

by Frank StronachCreating an Economic Charter of Rights I came to Canada as a young immigrant and opened a one-man tool and die shop in ...

Killers among us

by BRIAN LOCKHART It is a largely forgotten crime, but pretty spectacular for its day. In 1973, and man in disguise, entered the Canadian Imperial ...