From the North Gwillimbury Forest Alliance In the 2014 municipal election, the people of Georgina sent a clear message: Protect our woodlands and wetlands. Unfortunately, our new mayor and most of our councillors seem to have decided to turn a deaf ear to the people who voted them into office. Last n...
By Andrew Philips Orillia Packet & Times An Oro-Medonte Township group that plans to oppose Burl’s Creek Event Grounds at an upcoming Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) hearing wants a few changes to take place before then. Lawyers representing the West Oro Ratepayers’ Association (WORA) a...
from AWARE Essa From the distant past to the near future: Essa’s Trees through Time Ancient Forests of Massive Pines up to early 1800s Lumber Industry 1800s Reforestation Years 1900s What’s Next for the Trees of Essa? 2016… Can Essa’s Official Plan Protect our Trees? AWARE Essa invites you to j...
By Patrick Bales, The Orillia Packet & Times It appears the company that wants to develop Strawberry Island is heading back to the drawing board. Sitting as committee-of-the-whole, Simcoe County councillors received an information report from staff indicating TAG Development (formerly Trans Ameri...
By Patrick Bales, The Orillia Packet & Times A private prosecution launched by an Oro-Medonte Township resident over events last year at Burl’s Creek is moving forward, with just one defendant facing charges. After reviewing information received by lawyers for Wendy McKay and the companies ...
from Pamela Fulford, Friends of Strawberry Island We just got word that the Strawberry Island OPA 18 report will be coming to the Simcoe County Committee of the Whole meeting on March 22 at the Administration Centre in Midhurst. We are very excited that we also got the unofficial word that the develo...
By Patrick Bales, The Orillia Packet & Times Harry Hughes knew he was in a “no-win” situation when he had to declare a conflict of interest regarding decisions on the future of Burl’s Creek Event Grounds. “It’s sort of one of these situations where you’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t,...
By Robin MacLennan Barrie Today Salt is the new phosphorus according to the CAO at the Lake Simcoe Regional Conservation Authority. “We are seeing salt concentrations increasing more than 500 per cent in some urban centres,” Mike Walters said in a presentation to Barrie city council on Mo...
By Patrick Bales, The Orillia Packet & Times The fate of a temporary use bylaw to permit special events at Burl’s Creek will be decided over three days in May. The Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) hearing into the matter will begin May 24, however two of the parties at a second pre-hearing into the ...
New Tecumseth Free Press Friday’s Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority (NVCA) board of directors meeting includes a scheduled delegation by Fred Somerville, Somerville Nurseries, and Janet Budgell, Concerned Citizens in Adjala-Tosorontio (CCAT) to speak against the Township council&...
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