By Jenni Dunning Midland Mirror MIDLAND – Midland Power Utility Corporation is once again on the market. After a series of closed meetings since March, the town issued a press release Monday announcing it intends to “pursue a competitive Request for Pr...

AWARE News Network A crowd-funding campaign has been launched to save the Beeton Woods.  The appeal on the gofundme website states that the funds will be used to retain legal representation to address problems in the permits application and approval pr...

       AWARE News Network A yearling bear was photographed wandering through Beeton June 13 2015. Recently, after a young bear was shot in Newmarket, naturalist Bob Bowles had the following comment in his Orillia Packet & Times column. ‘Young...

From Jack Gibbons
 North Gwillimbury Forest Alliance The DG Group is asking the Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority (LSRCA) for permission to destroy a 500 acre provincially significant wetland to build a mobile home park. The LSRCA, in turn, say...

By Rick Vanderlinde Innisfil Journal Innisfil council has backed off its plan to charge residents a $25 fee to file a code of conduct complaint against any of the town’s municipal politicians. Initiated by Coun. Donna Orsatti, residents will once again...

By Rick Vanderlinde Innisfil Journal Some taxpayers may flinch when they see how much the town pays its managers now, but keeping top talent means matching salaries with competing municipalities, council has heard. CAO John Skorobohacz warned council m...

News release from MTM Conservation Association The MTM Conservation Association is hosting the First Annual Tiny Marsh BioBlitz on Saturday June 27, 2015. “This is a very exciting opportunity for newcomers to the world of nature to find out what’s goin...

By Patrick Bales, The Orillia Packet & Times Accusations of impropriety levelled at township councillors over the future of Strawberry Island echoed through the Ramara Centre Monday night. Nearly 200 people packed the Atherley building for a second...

By Don McCabe, President, Ontario Federation of Agriculture Ontario farmers are now facing new restrictions on the use of neonic-treated corn and soybean seed starting with 2016 planting. The Ontario government unveiled its rules for protecting pollina...

  Mercury levels rising in the sediment of some lakes News release from Grassy Narrows Asubpeeschoseewagong Anishinabek A newly released government commissioned report has found that mercury levels in the sediment of Grassy Narrows’ Wabigoon...