By Rick Vanderlinde Barrie Advance Jan 11, 2012 SOUTH SIMCOE — Mayor Barb Baguley believes an announcement by Infrastructure Minister Bob Chiarelli next week will be good news for Innisfil. Read more ...

Free workshop provides expert guidanceNews release from the NVCA - January 11, 2012Farmers can reduce expensive losses caused by wind and water erosion by planting trees in key locations in a formation known as a windbreak. A free workshop teaching far...

New Tecumseth Free Press January 11, 2012 The timber selling business exceeded revenue expectations for Simcoe County in 2011. Read more ...

New Tecumseth Free Press January 11, 2012 There’s a new view coming up on the horizon once H.J Vander Zaag Farms goes through with plans to clear 1.6 hectares (four acres) of trees on its Conc. 3 property in Adjala-Tosorontio. Read more ...

By Laurie Watt Barrie Advance Jan 10, 2012  BARRIE – Barrie is set to hire a real estate firm to help with planning for Allandale Station. “We’re painted into a corner,” Ward 3 Coun. Doug Shipley said during council Monday night. “We’ve spent $4....

By SARA ROSS, The Packet & Times January 10 2011 If constructed, a proposed recycling facility in Oro-Medonte Township will be under the thumb of the township itself. Read more ...

Ontario minster of infrastructure giving address at luncheon on Jan. 19 By ROBERTA BELL Barrie Examiner January 10 2011 Simcoe County MPPs were shocked to learn Ontario’s minster of infrastructure had a “new vision” for the county — t...

How do we build healthy communities within ecological limitations?AWARE Simcoe news release Jan 9 2012AWARE Simcoe is hosting a meeting on sprawl and the threat it presents to the future prosperity and well-being of Simcoe County residents.“We have ass...

Solid Waste & Recycling January 9 2012 Eliminating large piles of concrete and asphalt removed from demolition sites and road reconstruction projects by reusing these materials is the immediate focus of a new Ontario organization. Read more ...

CBC News Jan 9, 2012  SPECIAL REPORT: Power Switch Reports of two radioactive spills at the nuclear power plant in Point Lepreau, N.B., late in 2011 have raised concerns with the head of Canada’s Nuclear Safety Commission. Read more ...