Fun for all ages! Date Saturday Sept 26 2015 11:00 AM — 3:00 PM Location The Community Centre and Lion’s Park (74 Doran Rd. Midhurst) Tickets are required for BBQ, Contests and Games 11:00 am Children’s Fun Run/Walk Children’s fun run is fr...

Safety Day at Memorial Park – September 26th, 9-11:00 a.m. The HVPOA Safety Day this Saturday is set to really deliver with Mayor Harry Hughes providing the official welcome at 9:00 am, followed by give-aways provided by our partners: carbon mono...

from the David Suzuki Foundation  The federal leaders’ debate on the economy focused on important issues — jobs, deficits, infrastructure spending, pipelines, climate change — but no one talked about a different vision for Canada’s economy....

By Andrew Philips Orillia Packet & Times Changes can sometimes lead to confusion and Orillia is no exception to the rule. A move by the municipality to collect garbage every other week has led to a number of calls to city hall and stickers outlinin...

Re: Why Americans keep hitting the bottle (of water) Letter to the Toronto Star  Sep 8 2015 What bothers me most about this article is that most bottles end up as either litter or in the garbage. In more than 16 countries around the world and in some C...

New Tecumseth Free Press Online Simcoe County councillors will gather at the Kempenfelt Centre in Innisfil tomorrow morning to take part in a Governance Workshop, whose main focus will be reducing the composition of council, method of election, and ter...

News release from Simcoe County  More than 1,300 residents responded to the County of Simcoe’s Green Bin Survey, demonstrating strong interest in organics and opportunity to grow the program and increase Simcoe County’s diversion rate. Surv...

By Laurie Watt Barrie Advance The Simcoe County District School Board should go re-read the city’s development rules before it revises its south high school plans. That’s the message Mayor Jeff Lehman and councillors told senior school board officials ...

By Laura Finney Innisfil Journal The marina at Friday Harbour is finally full of water. A dam was put in place at the mouth of the marina and last week water from Lake Simcoe started flowing in slowly and naturally said Shauna Dudding, Geranium Corp. c...

From Jack Gibbons, North Gwillimbury Forest Alliance DG Group’s bid to cut down close to 32,000 trees and destroy more than 100 acres of wetland and woodlands on its Maple Lake Estates property to build a mobile home park clearly cannot pass any ...