Simcoe.com September 30 2010MIDLAND – All of the municipal candidates were offered the same opportunity to provide a 150-word statement to The Mirror.Ruth Hackney – Our municipality has had consistent assessment growth of approximately two per cent per...

Alert from Nancy Robinson - September 29 2010 Bernard Pope (Ontario Farmland Preservation) and myself Nancy Robinson (Concerned Citizens Group of Severn Township) are hosting a meeting Saturday Oct. 2 at 10am at the Jarratt Hall (831 Horseshoe Valley R...

Alert from Andre Claire – September 29 2010Andre Claire, candidate for councillor in Tiny Township, has filed a formal complaint to the Ontario Provincial Police about his election signs – and those of fellow candidate Nigel Warren – ...

By KAREN FOX AND RUTH BLAICHER Barrie Examiner September 28 2010In keeping with Examiner policy of not allowing registered candidates in the municipal election to write columns or submit letters, Roots Issues' Erich Jacoby-Hawkins has enlisted the help...

By JENNIFER BURDEN, THE Orillia PACKET & TIMES September 29 201If you have a soft spot for kitties, are addicted to Tim Hortons coffee, and have an iPod full of Rush tunes, there is an unofficial mayoral candidate for you.Bubbles, popularized by the hi...

Letter to the Barrie Examiner - September 29 2010Recurrent Energy, which is developing clean energy projects on lands leased from local owners, would like to respond to some of the points raised in this article. We recognize that farming is important t...

By MARG. BRUINEMAN, BARRIE EXAMINER September 15 2010Opposition to a California company's plans to install solar panels on 10 farms around Barrie and Orillia is heating up. ...

Letter to the Orillia Packet and Times - September 28 2010Re: "Those wanting to preserve farmland should purchase it," Adrian Kooger, letter to the editorThe issue here is that so-called solar "farms" are industrial use of agricultural land. The Ontari...

Alliston Herald – September 28 2010NEW TECUMSETH – Wondering what your New Tecumseth candidates stand for?Two all candidates meetings are scheduled in the town for people to meet with their ward candidates, as well as those running for mayo...

Simcoe.com – September 28 2010Mayor Cal PattersonBorn and raised locally in nearby Collingwood, Cal Patterson is a 30-year resident of Wasaga Beach.He and his wife Debbie have raised four children, Becky, Carly, Bradley and Haley. They now have H...