Martin Mittelstaedt Globe and MailTrent Hills, Ont. Friday, Dec. 18, 2009 Wendy Deavitt remembers the day in 2001 when she spotted her dream home in the country. At the end of a tree-dotted gravel driveway stood the farmhouse and adjacent horse barn th...

New Tecumseth Free Press OnlineAt the end of an otherwise uneventful final New Tecumseth council meeting of the year (tonight’s budget is working session), mayor Mike MacEachern made what he termed an “out of character” announcement r...

By Chris Simon Innisfil ScopeTwo of the town’s water servicing issues were on display for residents recently. Municipal staff hosted public information centres for the proposed Golf Haven water supply system, and Alcona’s Pump Station 3 wet...

By NICKI CRUICKSHANK Barrie ExaminerThanks for nothing. That was the feeling many Innisfil (soon to be Barrie) residents left with after last night’s city boundary open house. Cathy and John Adriaanse hate the thought of Barrie life, but they at ...

By Kate Harries WaterWatchIn an interview with the Barrie Advance, Simcoe County Warden Cal Patterson says he’s perplexed that the County paid for the Dump Site 41 computer modelling but can’t have the information. “There must have be...

Trina Berlo Wasaga Beach December 15 2009As Simcoe County’s new warden, Wasaga Beach Mayor Cal Patterson will see the county flag fly at town hall and his municipal flag will fly at the county administration centre in Midhurst.Wasaga Beach’...

By Douglas Glynn Barrie ExaminerSimcoe County is going to court to challenge an order of Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner. The county is seeking a judicial review of an IPC order directing it to “immediately take all steps, in...

By Bruce Hain Barrie AdvanceINNISFIL – Mayor Brian Jackson isn’t too pleased with comments published in last weekend’s Toronto Star by Victor Doyle, an architect of the Greenbelt Plan whose goal is to moderate and regulate development in the Grea...

By Travis Mealing Midland MirrorMIDLAND – The County of Simcoe is seeking a judicial review of an Information and Privacy Commissioner (IPC) of Ontario directive that officials in Midhurst insist cannot be obeyed.The directive requires the county to ta...

By Laurie Watt Barrie AdvanceSIMCOE COUNTY – Simcoe County is seeking a judicial review of an Information and Privacy Commissioner order to force a consultant to release a controversial Site 41 report.The IPC ordered the county Aug. 21 to “take a...