By Maija Hoggett Simcoe.com February 9 2010TOWN OF NEW TECUMSETH – New Tecumseth’s election ballot is filling up, and there’s still seven months to file for one of 10 seats at the town council table. Last week, three candidates filed ...

By Trina Berlo Simcoe.com February 2 2010Wasaga Beach residents will be using touch-screen voting machines again when they go to the polls Oct. 25.  Council approved the use of the machines for the upcoming municipal election at its Jan. 26 meeting. Si...

By Joanne Saunders Simcoe.com March 16 2010Many of us have fond memories of the call of loons echoing across our waterways. Now, it seems, that haunting sound, so definitive of the Canadian wild, is seldom heard unless one travels much further north.Wa...

By Chris Simon Innisfil Scope April 21 2010Implementing a town-wide water conservation program would be too costly to the municipality, according to a report released by Innisfil’s wastewater superintendent.Over the last few months, town staff ha...

New Tec council pay and expenses climbed 32 per cent in four yearsNEW TECUMSETH – April 6 2010 Simcoe,com – New Tecumseth council members received $286,991 in payouts last year for their salary, benefits, mileage and other expenses. The exp...

By Jay Gutteridge Simcoe.com April 22 2010The numbers don’t lie: there’s a lot of building going on in Bradford West Gwillimbury.The town received more than $1.2 million in building and septic permit fees last year, a report to town council from chief ...

By Rick Vanderlinde Simcoe.com April 20 2010INNISFIL —Mayor Brian Jackson has pleaded guilty to threatening Coun. Bill Pring with bodily harm. Mr. Justice Jon-Jo Douglas gave Jackson an absolute discharge in a Bradford courtroom Tuesday following the g...

By Janyce MacGregor CBC NewsWright Tech/Green Rite Solutions have got back to me with a response. Here is their release, verbatim:Wright Tech Systems, Gillani and Jaffer; Setting the record Straight “We never had any financial dealings with Gilla...

By Patrick Meagher Eastern Ontario Farmers Forum April 2010FINCH — All the man wanted to do was spread soil over his back yard to eliminate the slope and level if off. The local conservation authority swooped in to take photographs, analyze the develop...

By Maija Hoggett Simcoe.com April 13 2010NEW TECUMSETH – A New Tecumseth councillor is asking for changes to the membership of a Simcoe County conservation authority subcommittee.New Tecumseth Coun. Dennis Egan said Essa Mayor David Guergis and O...