Part 1 of 3: Garbage outstripping space By Don Campbell and Thana Dharmarajah Newmarket Era Banner Oct 20, 2011  Bob Beacock ignores the overpowering stench. He walks into a pile of sticky, torn garbage bags dumped on top of one of Ontario’s heaping la...

Avoiding the Christian Island mindset trapAWARE Simcoe October 20 2011Tom Bowes of InCourage Inc. will be the featured speaker. at the AWARE Simcoe - Site 41 Christmas gathering on Saturday November 26 at Treasures of China Buffet Restaurant in Barrie....

AWARE Simcoe October 20 2011Douglas Glynn, who has nearly six decades' of experience in the communcations business as a reporter, editor, teacher and consultant, will do a four-hour workshop on how to get the information the public needs from councils,...

By Rick Vanderlinde Barrie Advance Oct 20, 2011 ALCONA — Leslie Street will not be extended through the Leonard’s wetlands, council unanimously decided Wednesday night. Read more     ...

New tecumseth Free Press Online October 20, 2011 Simcoe County councillors are expected to vote on a Notice of Motion that seeks to rescind a 1990 policy that prohibited the importing/exporting of residential waste as part of a “short term vision...

Jeff Lehman of Barrie one of the speakers at free public forum  News release from University of Toronto’s Cities Centre October 20 2011 TORONTO – A coalition of academics, decision makers, community action groups and city planners is prepar...

Hughes seeks annual levy reduction, Agnew questions huge increase to SSEA By Frank Matys Orillia Today Oct 20, 2011  ORO-MEDONTE – Public works dumped “multiple loads of fill” on a provincially significant wetland when Oro-Medonte was witho...

Bradley to Environment, Gravelle to Natural ResourcesBy Kate Harries AWARE Simcoe October 20 2011Jim Bradley returns to the ministry where he made his name - does he still have the drive he showed in the 1980s? It will be needed, to address the waste i...

By Mary Riley Kawartha Media Group Oct 20, 2011 LINDSAY — While the City of Kawartha Lakes may not be home to a lake as big as Lake Simcoe, the importance and challenges of maintaining such precious resources were highlighted at a special council...

By Bob Bruton – Barrie Examiner October 20 2011 Single-family homes in a single-family neighbourhood. That’s what south-Barrie residents could now see built at the northwest corner of Big Bay Point Road and Hurst Drive. Read more...