By Frank Matys Mar 10, 2011 – 1:26 PM| 0 ORILLIA – For the past 18 years, Ian Brown relished his role as Orillia’s city manager. “Every day I looked forward to going to work, and I never knew what was going to happen that day,” Brown told Orillia Today. Neither did he ...
In-camera decision made with one at Good Roads conference, other not given chance to voteBy Sara ROSS The Orillia Packet & Times March 5 2001Two Orillia city councillors say they weren't given the opportunity to voice their opinion before city manager Ian Brown was fired.In an email sent to The Packe...
By SARA ROSS The Packet & Times March 4 2011Orillia's long-time city manager has been fired."I'm somewhat in shock right now," Ian Brown said on Thursday afternoon after being let go. "It's a little difficult for me to talk about it right now."...
By NATHAN TAYLOR ORILLIA PACKET & TIMES January 22 2011ORILLIA — The timing is right to pressure the province to upgrade the Highway 12 bypass, an Orillia city councillor says.Coun. Don Jenkins got the support of council this week to direct the mayor to lobby the provincial government for ...
By Frank Matys Simcoe.com Jan 20, 2011ORILLIA – Orillia’s mayor wants a city-owned property cleaned of contaminants but acknowledges it is unknown how that will be done and at what cost.“Remediation is my cure, first,” Angelo Orsi said. “If that cure can’t be broug...
... and save Dan The Chicken ManLetter from Cindy Hillard Transition Town Orillia January 21 2011 Let’s face it, local farmers are struggling under more and more regulations, making it increasingly difficult for the small scale farm to survive. ...
In its heyday, foundry employed around 800 people By JENNIFER BURDEN THE PACKET & TIMES January 14 2011 A piece of Orillia’s industrial history is up for sale.All four parcels of the 144-year-old FLSmidth property, formerly known as Dorr-Oliver or Dorr-Oliver-Long, at 174 West St. S. are o...
By NATHAN TAYLOR, THE PACKET & TIMES January 12 2011The previous city council is being asked to return all closed-session documents and reports so they can be destroyed....
By NATHAN TAYLOR, THE PACKET & TIMES January 12 2011A mayor’s task force on the budget will immediately start work after it is formed at next week’s council meeting.The task force was approved during a meeting last month, as part of a motion that halted the pre-budget and budget proc...
By NATHAN TAYLOR THE PACKET & TIMES January 10 2010The city should consider its waterfront master plan before starting the dock-replacement project at the Port of Orillia, the mayor says.Councillors decided at Monday night's council committee meeting to not award a $532,469.56 contract for Phase 1 of...
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