By Kenneth Jackson APTN As The Killers played their last song Sunday wrapping up another year of the massive WayHome music festival, the event’s legal troubles played on. The township says it is investigating the festival for allegedly breaking its permit for the second year in a row, allowing 35,000...
By Erica Woods Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation THE BEGINNING OF A MOVEMENT In 2013, Midhurst resident and stay-at-home mom Margaret Prophet went to a community meeting about a proposed development. Margaret left the meeting shocked by the sense that the community was being run over roughshod by d...
Dozens of organizations and activists join residents calling for a ‘Bluebelt’ to protect water sources for the health and prosperity of the region News release from The Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition The Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition (SCGC) is calling on the province and county to expand the G...
By Patrick Bales Orillia Packet & Times The upcoming summer festivals at Burl’s Creek will be a fading memory by the time a justice of the peace determines the fate of a private prosecution against Republic Live. After a nearly five-and-a-half-hour-long pretrial motion hearing Tuesday in Or...
News release from Save Oro Mere days before the beginning of the WayHome concerts, Oro-Medonte resident Wendy McKay will be in court Tuesday July 19 to pursue her private prosecution of concert promoters Republic Live in connection with alleged bylaw violations at last year’s Burl’s Creek concerts. T...
AWARE News Network The Ontario Municipal Board hearing into an application by several Midhurst developers for extra population allocations starts Monday July 18 2016 at 10:30 am in the council chambers of the Simcoe County administration building (1110 Highway 26). Five days have been set aside to de...
From Environmental Defence Ontario’s award-winning Greenbelt protects farmland, forests, wetlands and abundant clean water supplies. It also supports a thriving rural economy including the $11 billion agriculture and food sector that provides 110,000 Ontario jobs. A bigger and strengthened Greenbelt ...
The Co-ordinated Land Use Planning Review What does it mean to Dufferin? from the North Dufferin Agricultural and Community Taskforce NDACT Public Meeting and AGM Thursday, July 28, 2016 7:00pm Horning’s Mills Community Centre Join us for the NDACT AGM to learn more about the Coordinated Land Review....
By Andrew Philips Orillia Packet & Times Oro-Medonte council has opted for the status quo when it comes to this summer’s music festivals at Burl’s Creek. During a boisterous meeting Wednesday, the township’s council voted unanimously to approve a special-events permit for 92 of ...
From the Friends of Simcoe County Forest website The Friends of Simcoe County Forest invite you to a BBQ FUNDRAISER, on Wednesday 22 June. They need your help to stop the a new dual organics and waste facility the County has planned on 200 acres of forested land on Horseshoe Valley Road, north of Bar...
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