From the Friends of Simcoe County Forest website The Friends of Simcoe County Forest invite you to a BBQ FUNDRAISER, on Wednesday 22 June. They need your help to stop the a new dual organics and waste facility the County has planned on 200 acres of forested land on Horseshoe Valley Road, north of Bar...
SSEA Open House from SSEA website Thursday, June 30, 2016 1:00 – 4:00 PM Severn Sound Environmental Association (SSEA) Open House Guest speaker at 2 p.m.: David Phillips, Senior Climatologist at Environment and Climate Change Canada, presenting “Tomorrow’s Forecast: warmer, wetter and wilder”. ...
By Ian Adams Wasaga Sun Wasaga Beach will have control over the main beach area starting in 2017. That’s the thrust of an agreement in principle reached between the municipality and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry. On Wednesday, Wasaga Beach officials announced that a deal had been re...
New Tecumseth Free Press Essa mayor Terry Dowdall, was reelected to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) board of directors, one of 16 members from Ontario, yesterday, during the last day of the organization’s Annual General Meeting held in Winnipeg. Mr. Dowdall’s FCM connectio...
New Tecumseth Free Press After nearly a decade, Richard and Robin Norcross have informed the Town they are prepared to surrender their agreement to operate the concessions and vending machine operation at the New Tecumseth Recreation Centre (NTRC) at no cost to the municipality. In a letter to Town C...
Province Brings in Legislation to Increase Recycling, Create Jobs, Fight Climate Change Ontario government news release Today, Ontario passed legislation that will divert more waste from landfills, create jobs and help fight climate change. Currently, Ontario is producing too much waste, and not recy...
Sixth day of OMB Burl’s Creek hearing comes to a close By Patrick Bales, The Orillia Packet & Times June 1 2016 Opponents of expansion at Burl’s Creek Event Grounds argued Wednesday not only is money not a good enough reason to justify granting a temporary-use bylaw, but there’s...
By Patrick Bales Orillia Packet & Times Peter Thoma of UrbanMetrics would tell you that when it comes to Burl’s Creek there’s no place, like this place, anywhere near this place – so, this must be the place. Save Oro and the West Oro Ratepayers’ Association (WORA) would tend to ...
News release from Springwater Township The Township of Springwater is pleased with the outcome of the hearings held by Simcoe County Council on May 24, 2016 regarding the requests for population allocation under the County’s 20,000 Population Allocation Program. The Growth Plan for the Greater Golden...
Exception made for Walton’s five estate lots on Old Second AWARE News Network Today, Simcoe County Council voted to deny requests from five Midhurst developers for population allocations that would have provided for an extra 6,120 people in Springwater Township, over unanimous opposition from Springw...
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