Avening United celebrates 140 years

Avening United celebrates 140 years

Avening United Church welcomed almost 200 people to a special 140th Anniversary service held on Sunday, September 16. Here, Revs. Tony Rennett and Glen Eagle Jr. receive congregants as they exit the church and head over to the Community Centre for a luncheon. For a...
Drawnonward Goes big for Creemore Festival

Drawnonward Goes big for Creemore Festival

Drawnonward’s show, as the marquee event of the Creemore Festival of the Arts, September 22 and 23 at Station on the Green, is a homecoming of sorts for a group of local artists who have made a national name for themselves capturing the Canadian landscape. With over...
Memories of Cashtown School?

Memories of Cashtown School?

Anyone who has ever stepped into one of this area’s many one-room-schoolhouses-turned-residences knows that they are special places. Corey Finkelstein, who moved his family into the former Cashtown School two years ago, has certainly felt history resonating within his...
On the run for the G&M

On the run for the G&M

Anyone keeping an eye on Nick Brindisi’s Facebook page over the past few months is bound to feel a little lacking in the fitness department – status update after status update, after all, detail things like back-to-back 23-kilometre runs and 40-kilometre runs followed...
Fiddle Foot Farm: A reverse farm family

Fiddle Foot Farm: A reverse farm family

A farm near Mansfield sat quietly for more than 40 years. Close to the Boyne River on a dead-end road, the 66-acre paradise was populated by weekenders who loved the place but did not work the land. The large barn sat empty. A neighbour grazed cattle on the pastures....
Arbour Farms seeks changes to Mulmur Official Plan

Arbour Farms seeks changes to Mulmur Official Plan

A planner for Arbour Farms, the company that has been attempting to establish a sand and gravel pit on Airport Road just south of Dufferin County Road 21 for the past 12 years, came before Mulmur Council Tuesday to suggest several wording changes to the Township’s...