Conference call with Paula Dill “very exciting”By Kate Harries AWARE Simcoe January 24 2012Simcoe County politicians and staff seem almost giddy with excitement in the wake of last Thursday’s announcement by the province of the legislation that will gu...

Councillors bamboozled on closed meetings investigator vote countBy Kate Harries AWARE Simcoe January 24 2011It was a little too reminiscent of the Guergis days when Simcoe County councillors were chastized like childrren and thwarted by unpredictable ...

Barrie property taxes up 3% this year By BOB BRUTON – The Examiner January 24 2012 They didn’t just whittle, Barrie councillors cut the city budget Monday night. A proposed 4.9% property tax increase this year was carved down to 3.03%, as c...

Group wants to put the brakes on development By Ian McInroy – Barrie Examiner January 24 2012 ESSA TWP. — Jonathon Shore has two words for Simcoe County residents who are upset about massive developments in their neighbourhoods: get involved. The...

Midland mayor says flexibility and certainty in growth plan just what municipality needs By Laurie Watt Barrie Advance Jan 23, 2012 SIMCOE COUNTY – When Infrastructure Minister Bob Chiarelli came to Simcoe County on Jan. 19 to guide the region’s growth...

PowerStream buys 50 % of Collus for $15 million By John Edwards, Staff Jan 23, 2012  COLLINGWOOD – Powerstream has purchased a 50 per cent stake in Collingwood Utility Services (Collus). Read more ...

By Rick Vanderlinde simcoe.com Jan 23, 2012  COOKSTOWN — It’s been a long-time in the making — 17 years to be exact — but a small Cookstown housing project is back on track. The nine-home infill development near George and John Streets was first propos...

UODATED – Bradley response link below  OFA news release January 20, 2012 Guelph, ON – Escalating concerns about industrial wind turbines have prompted the Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA) to urge the province of Ontario to suspend further ...

By Michael Gennings Stayner Sun Jan 18, 2012 STAYNER – Sylvia Wiggins, a Clearview Township resident, is suing WPD Canada, the company that wants to erect eight wind turbines on land just west of Stayner. Wiggins is also suing Beattie Brothers Fa...

By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register 17 January 2012While official, political debate over plans to put an outdoor recycling yard across from Canada’s national shrine has been delayed until Feb. 1, ongoing discussions among lawyers may lead to a new h...