By Maija Hoggett Alliston Herald September 5 2013TORONTO - Reducing red tape, dependable funding and more were on the table when New Tecumseth Mayor Mike MacEachern sat down with Premier Kathleen Wynne and Minister of Rural Affairs Jeff Leal last week.MacEachern and a handful of other rural mayors fr...

New Tecumseth Free Press August 27, 2013Effective Sept. 7th, development charges (DCs) in New Tecumseth will be $38,409 per detached and semi-detached housing unit built on full urban services in New Tecumseth. That's an increase of $6,723 from the expiring rate schedule. DCs are payable when a build...

New Tecumseth Free Press July 18, 2013The proponent of a proposed four-storey, 48-unit condominium building at 67 and 75 Boyne Street currently working through the zoning bylaw amendment process that would permit its construction, has been cleared by council to erect a sales trailer on site, despite ...

New Tecumseth Free Press July 8, 2013The 2012 audited financial statements for New Tecumseth shows $4.1 million owing in future benefits to municipal employees, an increase of $1.7 million including "another WSIB claim for a fire fighter under the presumption legislation." ...

Letter to New Tecumseth Free Press June 26, 2013 I am not appraised of who has mandated the formation and subsequent discussions going on under the title of "urban nodes" is it the Provincial government or from County? ...

New Tecumseth Free Press June 12, 2013The proponent of Nottawasaga Estates whose plans to amend a 60 unit estate development into 160 general market homes on CW Leach Road immediately north of the Briar Hill community, has appealed council's rejection to the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB). ...

Link to April 8 2013 meeting of New Tecumseth council ...

New Tecumseth Free Press April 16, 2013  The lawyer representing New Tecumseth told an Ontario Justice in Barrie this afternoon that it is in the best interests of the public for Angela Drainville's lawsuit to move swiftly to trial because a courtroom is the Town's only remedy to defend against the "...

New Tecumseth Free Press March 4, 2013 New Tecumseth councillors cost ratepayers $322,000 in 2012 according to the annual filing of remunerations and expenses that's on tonight's agenda.Mayor Mike MacEachern, whose paid a basic annual salary of $34,495, and $4,388 in health benefits, topped out when ...

Missed deadline under Endangered Species Act will require larger buffer zone New Tecumseth Free Press February 25, 2013The Sorbara Group has missed a deadline that will force the developer to set aside a larger block of land in Beeton as an environmental buffer zone to protect two threatened bird spe...