Comment on Fairview Wind Project

On Wednesday, December 4, the Ministry of the Environment deemed wpd’s project application for Clearview “complete.” This means that the wind energy company has submitted the required forms and applications to the Ministry, and a full technical review of the...

Visiting the past

For the past two years, one Grade 12 Centre Dufferin District High School (CDDHS) student has seen history through a local World War II veteran’s eyes. Recently, he had the opportunity to see it through his own. Thomas Hallett, 17, has been learning about the wartime...
Development in plan for Mulmur

Development in plan for Mulmur

After a year in development, the Township of Mulmur has approved its first-ever Strategic Plan. A blueprint for the future, the plan outlines five goals for the Township to achieve by 2018: to grow its residential and industrial/commercial development; increase...

Community youth choir

Organized in October, the Creemore Community Youth Choir is now 24 members strong. Singers ages eight to 13 from Creemore, Dunedin, New Lowell and Glencairn meet every Tuesday evening at St. John’s United Church in Creemore. “The idea came out of wanting to attract...

Painting the town…

Meet Sara Sniderhan, who has just celebrated her six-month mark living in the Creemore area. Sniderhan is a figurative oil painter who was largely self-taught until she travelled to Los Angeles and San Diego to take painting workshops with her “superheros,” including...

Order of Canada for Barrie

Andy Barrie likens becoming a Canadian to the way he imagines a transsexual must feel once they’ve had a sex change. “I was a Canadian in an American’s body,” he explains, of growing up in Baltimore, Maryland and leaving the U.S. after receiving orders to go to...