By DOUGLAS GLYNN Midland Free Press December 8 2011 Council will take one more kick at the can next Tuesday in a bid to finalize the 2012 budget. Read more ...

Letter to the Midland Mirror November 28 2011 MIDLAND – Re: “Wrong spot for recycling facility, say Sainte-Marie officials,” The Mirror, Oct. 6. Midland-Penetanguishene Field Naturalists Club members have some concerns about a proposed waste transfer and recycling facility to be located at 1001 Frank...

Midland Mirror December 2 2011 MIDLAND – Midland councillor Bob Jeffery, left, and Mayor Gord McKay, right, present a plaque to Joe Syed, plant manager at Saint-Gobain Adfors Canada Ltd., in recognition of the company’s water conservation efforts. Read more ...

Businessman displeased by town’s refusal to rezone Cranston Crescent property By Nicole Million Midland Mirror Dec 01, 2011  MIDLAND – A Midland businessman has filed an appeal with the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) over the town’s refusal to rezone a property on Cranston Crescent. Read more ...

By Laurie Watt Midland Mirror Dec 02, 2011 ELMVALE – Springwater Mayor Linda Collins was left reeling from the shock of hearing a blood-collection service – which was to start Thursday in Elmvale – has been indefinitely postponed. Read more ...

Group marches from Martyrs’ Shrine to town hall to deliver 4,000 letters By Nicole Million Midland Mirror Nov 30, 2011  More than 50 protesters braved the first real blast of winter Wednesday morning to bring their message of disapproval about a proposed recycling plant to Midland town hall. Read mor...

Opposition to proposed outdoor industrial waste site focus of Midland march News release November 30 2011  Unpleasant weather did little to dampen the spirits of walkers who trekked from the Martyrs’ Shrine to deliver over 4,000 letters of concern to Midland Town Hall. The letters were in oppos...

By DOUGLAS GLYNN Midland Free Press November 25 2011  Town staff have been asked to look for more ways to cut spending so the over-all increase in the cost of running the town in 2012 is kept to two per cent. Read more ...

By Charles Lewis, National Post · Nov. 21, 2011 MIDLAND, ONT. . The tens of thousands of pilgrims who make their way to English Canada’s most visited Catholic shrine and holy site could soon have their sense of being on sacred ground shattered by the sound of trucks dumping industrial waste mat...

By Michael Swan The Catholic Register November 22 2011  Plans to put an outdoor, industrial recycling facility next door to the Martyrs’ Shrine have shocked the Jesuits and galvanized a campaign to protect the environmentally sensitive Wye Marsh.  Read more ...