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News January 24, 2007
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Steering committee optimistic St. Mary's Church will be built
By Bill Rea
      There's still work to do and money to be raised, but there's much confidence in the Nobleton community that St. Mary's Catholic Church will be built. A steering committee from within the parish has been working to this end for about three months, and they presented a progress report last Tuesday a...
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Councillors concerned over rate farmland is taxed
By Bill Rea
      Farmland has been taxed at a lower rate than residential properties for a number of years, to the detriment of municipal coffers, and King councillors are still upset by it. That matter was discussed recently as councillors set an interim tax levy to get the municipality through the first part of ...
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Food bank will operate Saturday
      The King Township Food Bank will be open for business this Saturday (Jan. 27) from 9 until 11 a.m. Depots will be running out of St. Mary Magdalene's Anglican Church in Schomberg, St. Paul's Presbyterian Church in Nobleton and All Saints' Anglican Church in King City.
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Blackhorse Players lend support to The Boys Next Door
By Anne Ritchie
      In the popular sitcom MASH, Frank Burns tells Hawkeye, "Normal is everybody doing the same thing," to which Hawkeye replies, "Well, what about individuality?" "Well, individuality is fine," Frank says, "as long as we do it together.
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Brett Davis recreates bell that heralded Underground Railroad
By Bill Rea
      Black History Month in February is likely to be rung in literally in Buxton, largely thanks to the efforts of local sculptor Brett Davis. Davis has recently finished a commission from the Buxton National Historic Site and Museum to recreate a replica bell. The original is still housed atop a churc...
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