By Frank Matys Barrie Advance November 3, 2009  Oro-Medonte council has dissolved the township’s planning advisory committee.Its five citizen appointees are no longer serving a function many consider essential for sound planning, according to council, ...

Essa mayor says he’ll still pursue independent assessmentBy Matthew Talbot Alliston HeraldThe Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority (NVCA) is considering its own third-party review, an internal audit that would look at planning and fee polici...

By Laurie Watt Barrie AdvanceBarrie can’t afford to base its water and sewer rates on a system that encourages conservation, city staff say.After more than an hour of debate in general committee Monday and an array of motions that sunk, councillors fin...

By Bill French WaterWatchThe Springwater Council was quite civilized on Monday Nov 2. The Mayor and Deputy Mayor were quite cordial, so I don’t know what will come of the fireworks from Oct 15th where Deputy Mayor Hope challenged Mayor Guergis on...

Candidates for warden bandied outBy Laurie Watt Barrie Advance Simcoe County needs to begin rebuilding trust and that should start at the top with the election of warden, says Collingwood Mayor Chris Carrier and New Tecumseth Mayor Mike MacEachern.In t...

Supporters of Stop Dump Site 41 are contacting MPPs to ask that they support Bill 32, a Private Member’s Bill being put forward by Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop that is scheduled for second reading at the Ontario legislature on November 19.Ent...

New Tecumseth Free Press Online October 29, 2009Simcoe County will pay Stantec Consultants $202,206 to “assist” in the development of a plan to deal with waste management over the next 20 years.Specifically, according to the County’s ...

By Laurie Watt, Alliston Herald October 29, 2009Despite retaining a specialized communications consulting firm, Simcoe County councillors are still calling on better communication to alleviate fears that Site 41 will one day be a dump.Tuesday, concerne...

By Kate Harries WaterWatch October 27 2009It’s full speed ahead for the county’s Waste Management Strategy (in sharp contradistinction to the portion of the Waste Management bylaw that has set punitive fines for behaviour like scavenging or unsatisfact...

By Kate Harries WaterWatch October 27, 2009Giant signs, calling for revocation of the Dump Site 41 Certificate of Approval and proper restoration of the site, greeted Simcoe County councillors and employees this morning.As councillors entered the build...