County to consult on trash issue By Raymond Bowe Barrie Examiner October 28, 2009Simcoe County is ratcheting up the pressure in how it deals with trash. The county has hired Stantec Consulting to develop long-term ways to handle garbage, one of the mos...

By Raymond Bowe Barrie Examiner October 28 2009,As a handful of people outside held a banner urging Simcoe County politicians to have Site 41’s certificate of approval from the province revoked, councillors discussed the next steps for the contro...

By Michael Gennings Alliston Herald October 27 2009 Representatives with a grassroots group calling itself Zero Waste Simcoe were before Clearview Township council last Monday night, urging local elected officials to implement stringent new waste manag...

By Morgan Ian Adams  Collingwood Enterprise Bulletin October 27, 2009COLLINGWOOD — Simcoe County council’s decision to spend $250,000 on a communications consultant came out of an overall inability to get out good news stories about what the coun...

New Tecumseth Free Press Online October 27, 2009The mayor of Wasaga Beach announced this morning he will seek the position of Simcoe County Warden when elections are held at the December 8 inaugural meeting.Cal Patterson ran and lost last December to t...

By Shawn Giilck Collingwood Enterprise Bulletin  October 28, 2009WASAGA BEACH – After a difficult year, Simcoe County may not quite qualify as an asylum, but Cal Patterson wants to be its warden anyway in a bid to bring it back to “respectability.” Pat...

Comment by Chris Simon Innisfil Scope Imagine finding out that your well, which has been in use for decades, is producing unsafe drinking water. It’s a situation that a significant percentage of residents living in the Big Cedar Point area have b...

Alliston Herald October 21 2009Need changeWith the demise of Site 41, citizens of Simcoe County should take heart. It took a lot to reverse a decision to put a dump on top of a major aquifer, but it was finally accomplished.It also puts the lie to citi...

By Richard Blanchard Innisfil ScopeA motion proposed by Essa mayor Dave Guergis to dissolve the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority never made it to a vote recently.With the township council chambers packed with residents, Guergis asked for the m...

October 15, 2009 The following letter has been sent to Warden Tony Guergis and others at Simcoe County, as well as to the Site 41 Community Monitoring Committee by Emil O. Frind, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Earth and Environmental S...