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Next month’s Tree Lighting just got more Christmassy

November 1, 2017   ·   0 Comments

In just a couple of weeks, Santa Claus will see Aurora getting its Christmas finery out for the annual Santa Under the Stars Parade, but when he returns for an encore at the beginning of December for the Town’s annual Tree Lighting Ceremony he’ll feel even more at home.

Thrills and chills around every corner of Haunted Forest

Thousands of kids and their families from Aurora and beyond donned their costumes for Aurora’s annual Haunted Forest at Sheppard’s Bush — and pulled on ...

Get ready for a smaller Council in 2018

Your decision in next fall’s municipal election just got easier – or more difficult, depending on your perspective.

Protection of “stable neighbourhoods” examined

Should Aurora do more to protect older, stable neighbourhoods from large-scale infill development?

Former MP launches Conservative bid in Newmarket-Aurora

Local Conservatives marked the two-year countdown to the next Federal Election by looking firmly to the future, applauding former Newmarket-Aurora MP Lois Brown as she declared her intention to seek the party’s nomination for 2019.

Online scavenger hunt reveals Aurora’s secrets

If these walls could talk! Sure, we’re all familiar with that expression, and we’ve probably thought it once or twice before, but now the secrets of Aurora’s more historic walls, and even its landmarks, are ready to give up their secrets -- right on your phone.

Elvis has Marquee “All Shook Up” for next show

Elvis Presley’s music – okay, probably his hips more than anything – left audiences all shook up when he burst onto the music scene in the 1950s, and now his music is leaving a whole new generation “All Shook Up.” Aurora’s Marquee...

Aurora looks to Georgina for animal shelter service

Aurora is set to wrap up its long relationship with the OSPCA, joining with three other York Region municipalities in contracting Georgina to handle animal shelter service.

Daughter’s legacy allows local family to make $20K donation to SickKids

Toronto’s Hospital For Sick Children became a second home to the Watkin family. At the hospital day in and day out as their daughter Sarah received treatment for acute myeloid leukemia, they soon found everything they needed was there as Sarah bravely...

Holy Spirit helps nature reclaim their bit of “concrete jungle”

Paradise may have been paved to put up a parking lot in Joni Mitchell’s world, but in the world of Holy Spirit Catholic Elementary School, paradise was asphalted over for a playground.

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