from Food and Water First Join us for a day in the country to celebrate local food, farmers, artists and musicians! Bring your family and healthy appetites to the beautiful Pegram Farm, down the road from where Foodstock was held. Explore the Hills of ...

We will not let nature down Letter to Ontario Nature members from executive director Carolyn Schultz Ontario’s gold-standard Endangered Species Act (ESA) is something that I know you care deeply about. I also know that you share my deep disappoin...

By Laurie Watt Barrie Advance June 11 2015 The Brereton Field Naturalists’ Club invited city council for a walk through the Gables before they approved a new waterfront master plan this week. But city councillors skipped the walk and approved a plan th...

From Pam Fulford Come to the Ramara Township Council meeting at the Ramara Centre (Library), 5482 Hwy 12, Atherley on Monday June 15 at 7 pm. Strawberry Island in Lake Simcoe is threatened by a development proposal for 120 condo units and up to 500 peo...

New Tecumseth Free Press Online Essa Township mayor and Simcoe County Deputy Warden Terry Dowdall was elected to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) Board of Directors during its 78th Annual Conference in Edmonton, held June 5 to 8. The Boa...

By Sara Carson Orillia Today Ontario’s ombudsman will soon oversee all of Simcoe County’s councils and their hired integrity commissioners. On May 21, Ontario ombudsman André Marin announced when this oversight, under the Public Sector and MPP Accounta...

Farmers, province agree to reduction beginning July 1 –  manufacturer maintains controversial insecticide is safe By: Robert Benzie Toronto Star Ontario is moving to take the sting out of pesticides that are killing bees. On July 1, the province ...

from the Ontario Beekeepers’ Association The Ontario Beekeepers’ Association, representing the interests of Ontario’s 3,100 beekeepers, has come out in full support of the new regulations announced today. These regulations are intended to protect...

SaveOro and WORA withdrawing court application News release from SaveOro ORO-­MEDONTE —­ A court application challenging a controversial township bylaw allowing an expansion at Burl’s Creek Event Grounds is being withdrawn by lawyers for lo...

From the Friends of the Utopia Mill & Park Our work to begin Phase I of the restoration of Bell’s Gristmill in the Utopia Conservation Area has started! Thank you for helping make this possible. And special acknowledgement to both the NVCA an...