Editor’s note: This is the first in what will be a regular series of reports from Bradford West GwillimburyBy Meade Helman AWARE News Network September 9 2012Learned a few things at Tuesday night’s town council meeting. 1.      It is OK for the VP of Great Gulf  (a certain Ms. Beth Halpenny) to come ...

Construction expected to start in late 2014 once designs are finalizedBy Sean Pearce BWG Topic Aug 31, 2012 Next exit the 5th Line of Bradford.Liberal Oak Ridges-Markham MPP Dr. Helena Jaczek was at the Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library Friday afternoon to announce the province will support th...

By Sean Pearce Barrie Advance Jul 12, 2012 The Hwy. 400 employment lands remain council’s focal point for future economic prosperity, but Bradford residents may be in for a bit of a wait if they’re holding out for higher paying local jobs....

Dissette Street cost nearly $35MBy Sean Pearce Simcoe.com Mar 29, 2012 The costs for the Dissette Street/8th Line road widening and reconstruction are in and they’re not pretty. According to a report prepared recently by Bradford’s manager of capital projects, Jon Morton, the Dissette/8th Line projec...

12 Bradford employees raking in “Sunshine”By Sean Pearce Simcoe.com Mar 26, 2012  A total of 12 Town of Bradford West Gwillimbury employees made this year’s installment of the so-called Sunshine List, which provides the names and salaries of public servants pulling in more than $100,000 p...

Business community cautiously optimisticBy By Sean Pearce Simcoe.com Mar 08, 2012Has downtown Bradford’s time finally come? The local business community certainly hopes so. So much so, in fact, that the Bradford Board of Trade has struck a downtown committee of its own to keep tabs on the town’s revi...

By Miriam King Bradford Times March 9 2012 The Councils of Bradford West Gwillimbury and Innisfil held a joint session of Committee of the Whole on February 22, to discuss the issue of a police costing – prompted by BWG’s unilateral decision, on December 6, 2011, to ask for a costing from the O...

By Miriam King Bradford Times March 7 2012 Consultant concludes that the Town is not only ready for Transit – the ridership is there – but that public transit is feasible, that it is needed if the Town is going to continue to grow, and that it is doable, if the Town starts small. Full [&h...

Simcoe.com Mar 08, 2012  Taking out the papers and the trash is poised to cost you more. At Tuesday’s committee of the whole meeting, council voted to increase the residential waste management levy to $160 per unit. That means homeowners will pay an extra $20, or 2.29 per cent, for waste pick-up this...

Construction of a new BWG Leisure Centre began in April, 2010 By Miriam King Bradford Times February 16 2012 Twenty-one months later, on February 3, “we actually achieved occupancy,” Architect Gerry Pilon told a meeting of the BWG Facilities Committee this week. Read more ...