AWARE Oro-Medonte March 9 2012AWARE Oro-Medonte meets Saturday March 12 from 10:00am to 12:00 noon at the Edgar Community Hall....

By Josh Tapper Toronto Star March8 2012 About 20 per cent of refuse collected through the city’s blue bin recycling program eventually finds its way to the Green Lane landfill, according to one insider at the city’s solid waste management services. Tha...

New Tecumseth Free Press March 8, 2012 The County of Simcoe Water and Wastewater Visioning Strategy puts it on a collision course with its so-called urban growth nodes, including New Tecumseth, and communities like Essa Township, if that ‘vision&...

New Tecumseth Free Press March 8 2012 As part of the fact finding and information gathering process for the story posted this morning, new board President Christine Brayford was asked to clarify the mortgage payment situation including the notion that ...

Property owner seeking ‘anchor’ tenant for property By BOB BRUTON – Barrie Examiner March 7 2012 The redevelopment of a key downtown Barrie property has begun in earnest. The landowner of this vacant Five Points property, site of a fire in 2007, ...

Midhurst Community Newsletter March 2012 Probably everyone knows by now that over 1,000 Midhurst residents have already signed the petition to voice their opposition to the Midhurst Secondary Plan... Maybe if our elected officials had been more in tune...

By GISELE WINTON SARVIS Orillia Packet & Times March 5 2012 Planners and economic development officials in Oro-Medonte Township have visions of Horseshoe Valley being transformed into a Whistler Village-style development. “We are hoping to make us...

McGuinty Government Takes Steps to Address Mineral Exploration Impasse Ontario news release March 4, 2012Ontario has withdrawn lands in the vicinity of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) from prospecting and mining claim staking to give clarity to the p...

Growth that has become uneconomic in the sense of increasing illth faster than wealthBy Herman Daly The Daly News March 5 2012The US and Western Europe are in a recession threatening to become a depression as bad as that of the 1930s. Therefore we look...

We also need answers on county's plans for Site 42By Stephen Ogden AWARE Simcoe March 4 2012Many years ago, councils in Simcoe County moved to open many dumps to provide a place to bury our garbage. It has been said many times and by many people, inclu...