By Morgan Ian Adams, Collingwood Enterprise Bulletin February 22 2011Simcoe County wants you to pay for your trash.Starting next summer, county residents will be expected to pay for every bag of garbage they put to the curb."It will be a cost-effective method for controlling garbage," said Collingwoo...
Midland and Penetanguishene, two Georgian Bay towns dealing with new statusBy Douglas Glynn Midland Free Press February 22 2011Like kids with a new Meccano set, some 70 people last week exercised their imaginations to continue building what will be the Midland-Penetanguishene joint urban node....
By Douglas Glynn Midland Free Press Feb 22 2011 Deputy Mayor Stephan Kramp has renewed his request for details about the Midland Police Services Board’s 2010 conference expenses. Kramp – one of two newly-appointed council members on the board – first raised the issue in December when he asked w...
AWARE Simcoe has accountability & transparency questions for councillors attendingAWARE Simcoe news release - February 22 2011The annual Good Roads conference is coming up this weekend, and for those Simcoe County councillors attending, there’s an extra goody in their conference package.Councillors, ...
Why pay people to plant trees, when we can save mature trees on undeveloped, treed lots? All that is required is ACTION by the local municipal governmentLetter from Bobby and Steven Kasgaard AWARE Simcoe February 19 2011Over 40 years ago, my parents purchased a couple of wooded lots (in Lafontaine/Pe...
Public meeting envisions savings from merger of police, fire and other departmentsBy Nicole Million Midland Mirror Feb 18, 2011NORTH SIMCOE – Synergy emerged as a theme last week during the second of three public meetings to discuss the possibility of Midland and Penetanguishene as a joint urban node...
Four walk out of meeting; mayor confident divide can be bridgedBy Nicole Million Midland Mirror Feb 16, 2011 MIDLAND – Four members of Midland council walked out of a meeting last week, raising questions about whether the group will ever be able to get its act together.What started the fireworks, acc...
In preliminary budget, Ramara Township declines to pay into tourism marketing groupBy JENNIFER BURDEN The Packet & Times February 17 2011Ontario's Lake Country is one township away from being crippled....
Library, museum, recreation department instructed to boost revenueBy Nicole Million Simcoe.com Feb 11, 2011PENETANGUISHENE – Penetanguishene residents will have to come up with an extra 10 bucks in municipal taxes this year under the town’s proposed operating budget....
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