Stouffville News

Stouffville Sun-Tribune reporter Sandra Bolan carried the Olympic torch in Lindsay Wednesday.

Stouffville District Secondary School graduate Allison Jones felt "immense pride" when she carried the Olympic torch in Petawawa this past Sunday.

What's hot and flaming and coming right for us? Why, the Olympic torch , of course! It was to have left Oshawa at 5 a.m. after a big old celebration at City Hall and will make its way through Whitby, Ajax, Pickering , Whitchurch-Stouffville, Markham , Richmond Hill, and Thornhill before gracing our fair city with its presence.

Village Voices presents Celebrate with Brass at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, 143 Main Street North, Markham at 7:30 p.m. Village Voices, accompanied by York Brass, celebrates 90th birthday of renowned British conductor/composer/ arranger Sir David Willcocks by performing many of his best-loved Christmas Carol arrangements.

The Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville does not want residents parking their vehicles on the road during a snow event or for 24 hours following one.

Reaching out to isolated seniors in Thornhill, making organized basketball more inclusive for young Stouffville women, bringing jazz to Markham, promoting multiculturalism and enhancing family counselling throughout York Region are just some of the projects receiving a financial boost from the Ontario Trillium Foundation.

Rates of preventable patient deaths at just about every hospital in the Greater Toronto Area are falling, three years after Canadian hospitals began releasing such data.

On the evening of Nov. 30, our cat was struck and killed on Aurora Road, steps from our home.

Tat Aida, 93, and May Hanson, 92, are the poster children for Community Home Assistance to Seniors.

Looking to lend a helping hand to the needy during the holidays? The Stouffville Sun-Tribune and its sister publications in the York Region Media Group are once again raising money for their Santa Fund and requesting donated items to make the wishes of local families come true.

You have no excuse for not singing this Christmas, Whitchurch-Stouffville. A Christmas carol book with will be given out by Stouffville Sun-Tribune carriers during Saturday's Kinsmen Santa Claus parade.

Have you ever wondered how teenagers think about themselves? Find out at the brand-new Rad is Art exhibition.

A group of General Motors of Canada dealers is suing the auto giant for millions in damages for alleged contract breaches and is seeking a court injunction to stop GM from terminating their franchises.

Twelve General Motors of Canada Ltd. dealers - one of whom represents a family that sold GM vehicles for more than 100 years - have launched a lawsuit against the auto maker in a bid to keep their dealerships open.

While you're waking up to open gifts Christmas morning, a crew of volunteers will be hard at work in Stouffville.

Businesses within the expanded downtown core may pay as little as $14 a year or as much as $5,800 annually come 2010 when the municipality institutes its special tax levy.

Built as a spur line of the Toronto and Nipissing Railway, the Lake Simcoe Junction Railway ran between Stouffville and Jackson's Point from 1877 to 1927.

Think you have the best-dressed home in Stouffville this Christmas? Bring it on.

Who is tagging public property in Stouffville? That's what municipal officials and police officers would like to know following an unprecedented spree of graffiti-painting in the community.

Santa, his elves, Rudolph, Comet and all of the other reindeer will be in Stouffville on Dec.