New Tecumseh Free Press Online A hearing seeking a temporary injunction to prevent the clearing of 30 acres of woodlot on the Tecumseth Estates’ property on the 9th Line in Beeton ended today without a decision. Instead, the three parties – AWARE Simcoe, the applicant; and the respondant...
By Patrick Bales, The Orillia Packet & Times Why the province would waste money on its aging nuclear infrastructure when cheap energy can be purchased in Quebec is a question the Ontario Clean Air Alliance wants more people to be asking. The alliance is making its presence felt in the Simcoe Nort...
Public meeting set for Thursday night New Tecumseth Free Press Online Adjala-Tosorontio mayor Mary Small Brett has called a special public meeting for Thursday night starting at 6:30 pm to consider an Official Plan and Zoning By-law Amendment at 5556 and 5670 County Road 13 at 5 Sideroad, that would...
from Danny Beaton and friends Lake Simcoe was known as Waawaase’Aagaming or the Shining Lake to the Anishinaabe People who once lived in the area. This waterwalk is intended to re-establish the spiritual connection of our people to these waters and to remind of us our responsibility to maintain a goo...
By John Bacher Springwater Park Citizens Coalition In his Encyclical Letter, Laudato si’, (On Care for Our Common Home), the Holy Father Francis has made an urgent call for humanity to reverse the process where, “The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of fi...
By Heidi Riedner Georgina Advocate Details of a disputed development application for the North Gwillimbury Forest will be made public after all after a recent tug of war over its release. The Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority “blinked”, according to The North Gwillimbury Forest Alliance, whic...
from Jack Gibbons North Gwillimbury Forest Alliance After insisting for months that DG Group’s application to destroy wetlands in the North Gwillimbury Forest should remain tightly under wraps, the Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority (LSRCA) has changed direction and agreed to release the...
AWARE News Network Simcoe County has come up with a short list of seven possible sites for a composting and waste transfer facility. A staff report explaining the list is on the County Council agenda for Tuesday August 11. Presently, the County sends its organics to Hamilton. Five of the short-listed...
New Tecumseth Free Press Online The Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority’s (NVCA) Human Resources Advisory Committee (HRAC) meets Aug. 13 to deal with the CAO’s report that requests “endorsement, in principle” to reduce its Board of Directors from 27 to 18 members. CAO Ga...
From Lakehead University Residents of the Georgian Bay and Simcoe County regions will have the opportunity to learn about how local water resources have an impact on their lives at this “Lakehead Challenge” event. What: The Challenge of Water: Quantity, Quality and Ontario’s Future Where:...
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