By Patrick Bales, The Orillia Packet & Times If you wanted to shoot a movie about a sensible country community fighting an influx of loud rock ‘n’ roll music, Oro-Medonte would be the ideal setting. Surprisingly, that suggestion wasn’t made in jest by a proponent of expansion at...
Battle back on between Barrie area residents as they resurrect noise and trash complaints against popular concert venue, its supporters By Rob Ferguson Toronto Star The Battle of Burl’s Creek is back as cottagers breeze toward Muskoka along Highway 11. Fearing another summer of loud music, lost sleep...
By Gisele Winton Sarvis Collingwood Enterprise Bulletin WASAGA BEACH – Wasaga Beach council voted 4-2 against filling the vacant councillor chair by choosing the next person in line from 2014 election councillor candidates. Council also voted 4-2 against replacing Ron Anderson, who resigned, th...
By Ian Adams Wasaga Sun Plans to dredge the Nottawasaga River are moving ahead. On Thursday, Wasaga Beach council’s coordinated committee received an update on the environmental assessment process that would give the municipality the tool it needed should it decide to go ahead with dredging certain p...
By Jenni Dunning Barrie Advance An Oro-Medonte facility that stores biosolids from Barrie’s wastewater treatment plant may be affecting groundwater, according to a 2015 performance report. The Oro Biosolids Storage Facility on Line 7 north of the Lake Simcoe Regional Airport can house up to 61,500 sq...
Mayor says council ‘confused’ over nature of motion By Ian Burns Midland Mirror Tempers flared at a Penetanguishene council meeting May 11 when members of council accused Mayor Gerry Marshall of “misleading” the public on the Main Street redevelopment. Coun. Dan LaRose read a letter on behalf of a m...
By Ian Adams Wasaga Sun Wasaga Beach bylaw officers have laid charges in connection with the removal of a number of trees at a local golf course. At council’s coordinated committee meeting today, chief bylaw officer Doug Vincent confirmed charges had been filed in connection to tree cutting that took...
Orillia Today Opinion Those seeking to unveil a sinister cover-up, or probe dark government secrets, will surely welcome Ottawa’s move to scrap large fees for federal freedom of information queries. Requests for information in Ottawa will only require a $5 application fee. Gone are the massive potent...
From the Springwater Township website The Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe provides the County of Simcoe with an additional 20,000 people to allocate to area municipalities. As a result of this, the County Official Plan was amended to provide the opportunity for municipalities and develop...
Text of Report CCW 16-189 – Applications for a Portion of the 20,000 Population Program – Midhurst Requests From Simcoe County website – link to agenda, scroll down to item 14 To: HEARING – 20,000 Population Program Meeting Date: May 24, 2016 Subject: Applications for a Portion of t...
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