Ramara ward boundary map – Ramara photo From Simcoe.com, July 29, 2022 By Sara Carson ​Municipal elections take place across Ontario on Oct. 24 People living in Ramara will head to the polls this fall to decide who will represent them around the ...

Stock photoDonatello Trisolino via Pexels From OrilliaMatters, July 27, 2022 A Letter to the Editor This letter is in response to a letter regarding farmland preservation, published July 26. Mike Douglas, of Ramara, writes a cogent letter regarding pre...

The first Green Orillia Waterways Cleanup is taking place Sunday, July 31....

Elmvale Flow From the Tiny Cottager, July 28, 2022 The Federation of Tiny Township Shoreline Associations (FoTTSA) has negotiated a settlement of FoTTSA’s appeal of the 2021 Permit to Take Water issued by the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation a...

Morgan Mansfield is encouraging residents to plant pollinator gardens to help counter the decline of monarch butterflies | Joshua J. Cotten From Simcoe.com, July 25, 2022 By Frank Matys Recent news that the monarch butterfly had been declared an endang...

Georgian Bay Forever’s Amber Gordon with one of the bottles that will be used in a project that will track the path trash takes in Georgian Bay. – Amber Gordon photo From Simcoe.com, July 26, 2022 By Ian Adams If you see someone toss a plas...

Stock photo From OrilliaMatters, July 26, 2022 A Letter to the Editor Every municipality in Ontario is faced with row-on-row sprawl-style development and surrounding farmland is being destructively gobbled up with little regard for future agricultural ...

An in-person celebration of the Nicholson Nature Reserve took place at Grant’s Woods Nature Reserve recently, and a recording of the event will be made available on YouTube. Pictured are Gary Nicholson and family, as well as staff and members of the bo...

Douglas and Bourgeois Farm is now protected from non-agricultural development. | Image supplied From OrilliaMatters, July 23, 2022 A Letter to the Editor This letter from Mike Douglas highlights the environmental benefits of working with provincial age...

 A slide displaying E. coli levels in the Township of Georgian Bay was provided to Tiny committee of the whole recently, presented by the Georgian Bay Great Lakes Foundation who are undertaking DNA testing to determine if the source is human or animal ...