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Nov 5th, 2014
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New Tecumseth Free Press Online Simcoe County is discovering its new property on Industrial Parkway was more amenable to farming than construction of a new paramedic station, whose costs are the only thing currently growing on site. In his update report to County councillors included on the Nov. 10th...
Nov 3rd, 2014
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New Tecumseth Free Press Online Outgoing New Tecumseth mayor Mike MacEachern has ended the speculation and this morning told Free Press Online that he will be seeking the nomination to run as the Simcoe-Grey candidate for the Liberal Party in the next federal election, scheduled for October 2015. Mr....
Oct 29th, 2014
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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. Particularly since entrenched County baggage like soon...
Oct 28th, 2014
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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 with 4,152 or 45.6 per cent to Mr. Kemp’s ...
Oct 28th, 2014
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New Tecumseth Free Press Online New Tecumseth Mayor-Elect Rick Milne said last night his immediate attention will turn to 2015 budget process to keep with the previous years’ practice of having the package approved no later than in January. “It’s sitting there waiting for us right n...
Oct 28th, 2014
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Across Simcoe County, voters make clear they want change By Kate Harries AWARE News Network Updated October 29, 2014 Anti-sprawl candidates have swept to office in two battleground municipalities in Simcoe County. Not even a message from Premier Kathleen Wynne could save the pro-development incumbent...
Oct 26th, 2014
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Township election page APOLOGY: Shira Harrison McIntyre returned the AWARE Simcoe questionnaire August 29 but it was missed and we omitted to post it until October 26. AWARE Simcoe sincerely apologizes for the oversight.  Mayor – Rick Milne 705-435-6857 rickmilne4mayor@gmail.com – Bob Mar...
Oct 2nd, 2014
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From the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority – Highlights of the Board of Directors Meeting, Sept. 26, 2014 Alexandra Service of Ducks Unlimited Canada presented to the board on the recently established Lake Simcoe Georgian Bay Wetland Collaborative. Ducks Unlimited, NVCA, Lake Simcoe Reg...
Sep 30th, 2014
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New Tecumseth Free Press Online  Last Wednesday night, four candidates vying to be New Tecumseth’s mayor were mostly split along incumbent lines, particularly on the suggestions the outgoing council was marked by secrecy and out of control spending and debt increases. About 150 people who turne...
Sep 30th, 2014
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Developers looking to build houses, farmers looking to relocate driving up farmland prices: ReMax By: Susan Pigg Toronto Star As development has leapfrogged the Greenbelt area north of the GTA into the fast-growing area around Barrie, many farmers have been playing a lucrative game of musical chairs....