Historical designation designed to safeguard cultural heritage By Nicole Million Barrie Advance Jan 9 2012 PENETANGUISHENE – The oldest house in Penetanguishene has received the historical designation local history buffs have long said it deserves. Rea...

Fergus Elora News Express January 3 2012 Culinary activist and Elora resident Anita Stewart has been appointed to Order of Canada for outstanding achievements in Canadian food and cuisine. Read more http://www.centrewellington.com/news/article/103188 A...

CBC News Jan 6 2012 Tim Hortons is defending its use of paper cups after a Fredericton man announced his plans to photograph and pick up discarded coffee cups for the next year. Read more ...

News release from Anishinabek Nation - Jan 5 2012UOI OFFICES, NIPISSING FN – Anishinabek Nation Grand Council Chief Patrick Madahbee says that First Nations in the Anishinabek Nation Territory have been opposed to nuclear waste storage sites since 2004...

Former councillor says a smoke screen is in effect Letter to the Orillia Packet and Times Re: Oro-Medonte MOU a mediation success story (Letter to the editor, Jan. 4) Mr. John Connor’s assessment of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) issue rem...

Email from North Gwillimbury Forest Alliance January 8 2012This Tuesday  (January 10), Jack Gibbons  will be speaking to the South Lake Simcoe Naturalists about Metrus Developments’ proposal to build a 1,073 home subdivision within a provincially signi...

Revisions to Barrie’s 2012 business/capital plan in the works By BOB BRUTON – Barrie Examiner January 7 2012 What stays, and what goes, can be contentious in every city operating budget. And the program changes to be considered in Barrie’s ...

Letters to the Toronto Star January 7 2011 Re: Anatomy of a quarry fight, Dec. 31 Thanks for a well researched and well written article about the possibility of mass aggregate extraction in Melancthon. The thought of such a large mass of arable land be...

Younger population means large workforce By CHERYL BROWNE – Barrie Examiner January 7 2012 Statistics Canada is helping turn Barrie’s job stats from a positive into a negative. Upon hearing the news that Barrie’s unemployment numbers ...

Potentially hazardous material discovered inside former waste management plant By IAN?MCINROY – Barrie Examiner January 7 2012 Hazardous material first located at a Churchill Drive business in south-end Barrie on Wednesday night did not pose a pu...