Letter to the Springwater News from Mayor Linda Colllins In a continued effort to maintain the facts and clear the air about the plans for the Midhurst Growth, I offer the following. This Council is trying to get it right! We are not rushing items forward. The Township of Springwater must follow proc...
Barrie Examiner SPRINGWATER TWP. – Green Party of Ontario Leader Mike Schreiner stopped on the campaign trail Wednesday to address supporters in a farm field near Midhurst where the local residents association is fighting developers who want to turn farmland into subdivisions. ...
My View – During my career I had the opportunity of living in some nice cities and enjoyed it very much. I spent two years in London, England living in the Kensington High Street area in a lovely 3 bedroom flat. I lived for a year in Santa Monica in a beautiful Condo Complex at Marina […...
Two viewings this weekend of Vanishing of the Bees, a documentary that examines the alarming disappearance of honeybees and the greater meaning it holds about the relationship between mankind and mother earth. As scientists puzzle over the cause, organic beekeepers suggest alternative reasons for t...
Letter to the Barrie Examiner (Re: ‘Midhurst residents seeking responsible growth’ in the May 1 edition of the Examiner – see below) This letter from Sandy Buxton of the Midhurst Residents Association (MRA) contains so many errors of fact it has hard to know where to begin in refu...
Letter to the Springwater News I am reluctant to send a letter to the paper as I have always believed that information and discussion on complicated concerns like the Midhurst Secondary Plan (MSP) should be done in Council or one -on -one with individuals. I have had many verbal discussions with rate...
The April 22 meeting of Springwater Council is going to be very important – and not just for Midhurst. – Anyone who cares about the Minesing Wetlands and the Nottawasaga watershed should attend. – Anyone who lives downstream of the proposed Midhurst Secondary Plan (Wasaga Beach resi...
By Laurie Watt Barrie Advance The Ministry of Natural Resources is talking with the Beausoleil First Nation about reopening Springwater Provincial Park as a pair of warring citizens’ groups wait to hear if they’ll be included. But while the ministry is “pleased to be working with” Beausoleil, the mi...
My View – As I observe the jockeying of all the parties that will prosper from the Mega Development plans for Midhurst, it appears that the final decisions are being based on greed not need. The open house by the Midhurst Landowners Group at the County Museum recently was quite impressive, if y...
CORRECTION: In an earlier version of this post, MRA president Sandy Buxton was incorrectly quoted as saying that Springwater is being “sued” by developers. The wording she used in her letter (full text below) is that the MSP developers have taken Springwater to the OMB. The introduction ...
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