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Sep 20th, 2016
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  Letter from AWARE Simcoe board member and Beeton resident Stephanie MacLellan to New Tecumseth Free Press Regarding your story that Simcoe County is aggressively pursuing its cost award of $5,000 from AWARE Simcoe, an award County Council decided to give away if collected, we learn now County ...
Sep 19th, 2016
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News release from the North Gwillimbury Forest Alliance The David Suzuki Foundation, Ontario Nature, Environmental Defence, AWARE Simcoe and the NGFA have asked the Government of Ontario to instruct the Region of York that it must amend the Town of Georgina’s Official Plan to ensure that it prohibits...
Sep 16th, 2016
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updated Monday Sept. 19 2016 By Kate Harries AWARE News Network The Ontario Municipal Board has released a ruling on the County of Simcoe’s motion that the board does not have jurisdiction to overrule county council’s decision not to grant any Chiarelli population allocations to some majo...
Sep 14th, 2016
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New Tecumseth Free Press  Simcoe County, second in a line of two behind Tecumseth Estates in the order of who gets paid their court ordered costs imposed against AWARE Simcoe, first, is pursing an aggressive collection strategy by conducting an “Examination in Aid of Execution” to “...
Sep 7th, 2016
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From Isabel Balarezo Blue Flag Program Coordinator On September 27th, Environmental Defence and the Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority (LSRCA) are hosting a FREE workshop: From the Lawn to the Lake: How You Can Keep Lake Simcoe Swimmable. Join us and learn about what you can do to help keep La...
Jul 27th, 2016
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By Kenneth Jackson APTN As The Killers played their last song Sunday wrapping up another year of the massive WayHome music festival, the event’s legal troubles played on. The township says it is investigating the festival for allegedly breaking its permit for the second year in a row, allowing 35,000...
Jul 20th, 2016
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Dozens of organizations and activists join residents calling for a ‘Bluebelt’ to protect water sources for the health and prosperity of the region News release from The Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition The Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition (SCGC) is calling on the province and county to expand the G...
Jul 20th, 2016
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By Ian Adams Wasaga Sun Georgian Bay may be at its highest point in two decades, but the flow in the rivers and streams that feed it has dropped. On Monday, the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority issued a Level 1 low water condition for the Nottawasaga River watershed. The conservation authori...
Jul 19th, 2016
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By Patrick Bales Orillia Packet & Times The upcoming summer festivals at Burl’s Creek will be a fading memory by the time a justice of the peace determines the fate of a private prosecution against Republic Live. After a nearly five-and-a-half-hour-long pretrial motion hearing Tuesday in Or...
Jul 18th, 2016
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News release from Save Oro Mere days before the beginning of the WayHome concerts, Oro-Medonte resident Wendy McKay will be in court Tuesday July 19 to pursue her private prosecution of concert promoters Republic Live in connection with alleged bylaw violations at last year’s Burl’s Creek concerts. T...