Vicki Monague By Kate Harries AWARE News Network The Ontario government has extended by two months the comment period on an application by CRH Canada Group for a 10-year renewal to its permit to take water (PTTW) at the Dufferin Aggregates Teedon pit. The pit is on the French’s Hill recharge area for...
Margie Green, Sue Wilson, Graham Coulter and Josh Warriner are fighting to save a 30-acre urban woodland. –Metroland photo by Andrew Mendler Midland Mirror Public opposition of a proposed 117-unit residential subdivision west of Church Street in Penetanguishene is gaining momentum. Queen’s Court Dev...
Jennifer Howard photo From the Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition We are pleased to partner with the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA), the Ontario Headwaters Institute, and the Ontario Environment Network to present, “WaterScapes – A Community Discussion on Water Protection...
Before the clearcutting: Beeton Woods in spring Legal action continues to collect funds regarding effort to save Beeton Woods AWARE Simcoe news release Once again, Simcoe County Council has decided to use its considerable resources to try to extract funds from AWARE Simcoe, a citizens’ group that wor...
By Patrick Bales, The Orillia Packet & Times Nearly six dozen well wishers could have been anywhere else in Simcoe County Sunday, enjoying a picture perfect warm fall day. But they – a group that included 11 members of municipal councils from the area – chose to be in Midland to show ...
Run, Gerry, run Letter to the Orillia Packet & Times from Erin Chappelle, Victoria Harbour We are starting to see people positioning themselves to assume the role of the next MPP for Simcoe North. When it comes to this unique region of Ontario, there is clearly only one person, one politician tha...
Mayor, deputy mayor and all councillors will be elected at-large in 2018 By Ian Burns Midland Mirror Voters in Penetanguishene will see a change to their ballot in the next municipal election. At its Feb. 22 meeting, council voted to abolish the town’s two electoral wards and move to an at-large syst...
New Tecumseth Free Press Simcoe County’s Governance Committee, which hadn’t met since November 2015, reassembled last Friday for the first time, and approved sending forward to council a recommendation to tap a provincial mediator and begin negotiations with its 16 lower tier municipaliti...
Tay Township mayor acclaimed as chair of board of health Midland Mirror January 30 The Simcoe Muskoka District Board of Health acclaimed Tay Township Mayor Scott Warnock as chair at its Jan. 18 meeting. “I am honoured to be elected as the new chair of the board of health,” Warnock stated in a press r...
By Sara Carson Barrie Advance Applause greeted Simcoe County Warden Gerry Marshall at a ceremony Tuesday afternoon as he was acclaimed to lead county council for a second two-year term Marshall said he has grown very passionate about the role and was ready to fight for the position if another council...
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