March 9th – Athletic Centre, J Building, Georgian College Barrie Campus, 10:30am – 9:00pm. https://www.georgiancollege.ca/news-events/all-events/traditional-pow-wow/...

Springwater Invites Community to Shape the Future of Parks and Recreation Township of Springwater / February 15, 2024 – The Township of Springwater is updating the existing Parks and Recreation Master Plan to guide the future planning of recreational facilities, programs, and services in the municipa...

Be the Change, Season 16 is here, and we are proud to present this year’s amazing line up! Our first presentation on Wednesday March 6, 7:00PM at the Simcoe Street Theatre is The Magnitude of All Things, by Jennifer Abbott. Her new documentary draws intimate parallels between the experiences of grief...

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By Wayne Doyle, Local Journalist, Jan 27, 2024 Simcoe County harvests almost 30,000 cubic metres of broad timber each year, which generates about $2 million annually that is reinvested in the forest You may not have noticed it because they take so long to grow, but Simcoe County’s forests are constan...

MEDIA RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Gail Little and Jonathan Scott continue to lead NVCA Board of Directors UTOPIA, Ontario (January 29, 2024) – Last Friday, Gail Little, Deputy Mayor for the Township of Amaranth, and Jonathan Scott, Councillor for the Town of Bradford West Gwillimbury were acclaimed...

ONTARIO NATURE Hello, Did you know more than 18.4 million hectares burned across Canada in 2023 as of November 2, 2023? This shattered the previous single-year high mark of 7.1 million hectares, which was set in 1995. Canada’s wildfires made international headlines in 2023. The greenhouse gases they ...

At Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority’s annual general meeting, board members also received update on lake’s health Barrie Today Staff, Jan 29, 2024 NEWS RELEASE LAKE SIMCOE REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITY **************************** At its 73rd Annual General Meeting, Lake Simcoe R...

ONTARIO CLEAN AIR ALLIANCE Ford’s Christmas gift to Enbridge Gas The Ontario Energy Board (OEB) has seen the future and that future does not include subsidizing the expansion of fossil gas service to new residential developments. The OEB ended that subsidy, finding that this would lower energy bills ...

‘It should be treated like the monarch butterfly is around the world. It’s more unique than that. And yet, we’re allowing the use of this pure water to wash dirt,’ says doctor by Wayne Doyle, Barrie Today Dr. Michael Powell, second from left, celebrates Springwater Township’s commit...