By Sara Carson Barrie Advance Applause greeted Simcoe County Warden Gerry Marshall at a ceremony Tuesday afternoon as he was acclaimed to lead county council for a second two-year term Marshall said he has grown very passionate about the role and was ready to fight for the position if another council...
News release from AWARE Simcoe Last week, members of AWARE Simcoe learned that a campaign they started almost four years ago has finally been successful. Liberal Transport Minister Marc Garneau has notified some local municipalities that the Nottawasaga River has been included in the small number of ...
Adjala-Tosorontio councillor questions CAO’s mileage payments By Brad Pritchard Alliston Herald An Adjala-Tosorontio councillor is raising new questions about how public money is being spent at the township. Ward 1 Coun. Floyd Pinto is criticizing the monthly mileage expense reports filed by chief ad...
John Morrison -Alliston Herald photo Warden satisfied with local planning standards By Brad Pritchard Alliston Herald The province’s growth policies either need to be more restrictive or more flexible, depending on what side of a municipality’s settlement boundary one farms on, say members of Simcoe ...
Liberal government adds river to list under Navigable Waters By Ian Adams Wasaga Sun The Nottawasaga River is once again protected under federal legislation. In October, the federal government added the river to the list of rivers and lakes protected under the Navigation Protection Act. Several area ...
AWARE News Network We did it! Thanks to you, the Nottawasaga River has been added to the schedule of the Navigation Protection Act. Only two rivers have had their protection restored by the Liberal government. The other is the Nass River in British Columbia. The reason? The Canada Gazette listing of ...
Bradford Times The Simcoe County Forest has now grown in size, with the addition of 104 acres (42 hectares) in Bradford West Gwillimbury. The property is the Kirkup Woods, described as Part Lot 18, Concession 12 in Bradford West Gwillimbury – a portion of the 200 acre farm formerly owned by the Kirku...
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from the Ontario Farmland Trust For the first time, all of Ontario’s major farm organizations, representing some 52,000 farms and 78,000 farmers, have come together to present a strong, united message to the province: freeze urban boundaries now to stop urban sprawl and protect farming in the Greater...
Some of the concerned Wasaga Beach residents who attended a county council hearing on the Easdale wetland. Among them – front row, fourth from right – is Town Councillor Sylvia Bray. -AWARE Simcoe photo By Kate Harries – AWARE News Network Some 30 Wasaga Beach residents watched from...
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