Simcoe County restructuring long past due New Tecumseth Free Press Online A 53 per cent change of the mayors and deputy mayors who also sit as Simcoe County councillors provides the ideal opportunity to affect real change at the upper tier level. Parti...

By Susan Swail Environmental Defence Greenbelt Program Manager On Monday night, as election results were tallied across the GTA, there was at least one trend: where citizens were engaged on development issues incumbents often lost and new greener counc...

from Midhurst Ratepayers’ Association via Change.org petition update Despite the character assassinations, splashy ads from the developers and their friends, the PEOPLE of Springwater and Midhurst spoke loud and clear. We elected a new mayor, and...

By Michael Gennings Collingwood Enterprise Bulletin  Brian Smith will be Wasaga Beach’s new mayor. Smith beat incumbent Cal Patterson, who was after a fourth term and Deputy Mayor David Foster, who was hoping to move up. Nina Bifolchi, a current ...

By Bob Bruton Barrie Examiner ESSA TOWNSHIP – Terry Dowdall was re-elected mayor Monday. Dowdall won a second term by defeating Archie Duckworth; Dowdall finished with 2,453 votes, while Duckworth had 1,385 votes. Ketih White is the Ward 1 councillor e...

By Rick Vanderlinde Innisfil Journal  Gord Wauchope got political retribution after beating incumbent Barb Baguley in Innisfil’s mayoral race Monday night. Baguley beat Wauchope in 2010 by 700 votes. But the veteran municipal politician known for his s...

By Gisele Winton Sarvis Orillia Packet & Times Severn Mayor Mike Burkett was elected to a second term in the township, garnering about five times the number of votes over his lone contender, former mayor Phil Sled. “It tells me that the past counci...

By Laurie Watt and Janis Ramsay Barrie Advance  For the first time since the turn of the century, Barrie voters have re-elected their mayor: Jeff Lehman will return for a second term. But the 2014 issues also matter, with affordable housing topping the...

New Tecumseth Free Press Online Rick Milne will take the helm of New Tecumseth, elected last night for the second time since 1991, as mayor, holding off local lawyer Kevin Kemp, by a margin of 698 votes. When the ballots were counted, Mr. Milne emerged...

Alliston Herald ADJALA-TOSORONTIO – Mary Small Brett is the new mayor of Adjala-Tosorontio. She has been on council for 14 years (10 years as councillor and four years as deputy mayor). For deputy mayor, Doug Little is returning to the seat. The ...