Barrie Examiner July 23 2010Darren Roskam has joined the race for Ward 2 councillor in Barrie. He joins Rose Romita and Lynn Strachan, current Ward 5 councillor, to contest the downtown ward in the Oct. 25 municipal election. Ward 2 is currently held b...

By Kate Harries SDS41 July 26 2010Several hundred people gathered in the Perkinsfield Pavilion Saturday to look back on a tumultuous year of fighting Dump Site 41 and to celebrate victory – a series of victories. ...

By Kate Harries AWARE Simcoe July 26 2010They came from all over Simcoe County - around 60 people who attended a meeting held in Coldwater on Saturday morning – and their foremost concern  was the amount of business councils conduct behind closed doors...

By Kate Harries AWARE Simcoe July 26 2010Archie Duckworth, candidate for Ward 1 in Essa Topwnship, has picked up on Mayor David Guergis's campaign against the N|ottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority ...

News release from AWARE Simcoe -- COLDWATER ON, JULY 24, 2010 -- Incumbent Simcoe County councillors have been spending like there’s no tomorrow – leaving a legacy of crushing debt in a period of projected declining revenues.In addition, a projected do...

Government looks at placing burden of blue box program solely on industryBy Tanya Talaga Toronto Star July 24 2010Plans to fully privatize the province’s blue box recycling program, saving municipalities up to $120 million a year, are in limbo due to t...

By Gail Swainson Toronto Star July 23 2010A coalition of farmers, residents and green activists are suing the provincial government for shoving through a gas-fired power plant next to the Holland Marsh. ...

Letter to Barrie Examiner July 23 2010(Re: 'Recycling operation would be another Site 41, group says' in the July 16 edition of the Examiner) One wonders if councillor hopeful Gord Roehner realizes that Steve Ogden, his invited speaker for this meeting...

By Maija Hoggett Alliston Herald Jul 23, 2010 NEW TECUMSETH - An Alliston campground owner is looking to try his hand at municipal politics.Douglas Weatherall, the owner of Rolling Acres Campground on Highway 89 east of Alliston, is running to be deput...

Barrie Examiner July 23 2010Darren Roskam has joined the race for Ward 2 councillor in Barrie. ...