New Tecumseth Free Press Simcoe County Deputy Warden Terry Dowdell led a delegation Tuesday for an audience with Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca and representatives from the Ministry of Transportation (MTO) to press for moving forward on the Hwy 400/404 link – ‘Bradford bypassR...
New Tecumseth Free Press A commissioned review of Adjala-Tosorontio’s organizational structure, performed by BDO, concludes the Township’s public works is in “turmoil.” The 42-page ‘Current State Analysis and Recommendations’ was to be presented to councillors at a...
By Ian McInroy, Barrie Examiner Residents of Centre Vespra are digging the decision by Springwater Township councillors Wednesday night to deny the expansion of a nearby gravel pit. Members of the People vs. Pits in Centre Vespra group, made up of residents of the village located west of Barrie on Su...
By Ian Adams Wasaga Sun The foundation has been set to create a Main Street Market on the beachfront this summer. At council’s Jan. 19 committee of the whole meeting, committee accepted a series of recommendations to hire an architect and contractor to build market kiosks, as well as a beachfront pub...
By Brad Pritchard Alliston Herald New Tecumseth homeowners will pay slightly less on their taxes this year thanks to higher than anticipated growth. When council passed the 2016 budget, the estimated average municipal increase was set at $73.85, a 4.4. per cent increase over last year. The figure was...
By David Paddon, The Canadian Press TORONTO — Progressive Waste Solutions has agreed to a friendly deal that will see the Canadian waste management company merged into a new business that’s controlled by shareholders and management of Texas-based Waste Connections. The deal — a type...
By Ian Burns Midland Mirror MIDLAND – Carolyn Tripp has left her position as CAO for the Town of Midland On Tuesday afternoon, Mayor Gord McKay confirmed Tripp was “no longer with the Town of Midland.” “We would like to thank her for her service,” he said. No reason was given for her leaving. McKay [...
By Dave Dawson, Orillia Packet & Times It’s never easy to acknowledge failure and it can be especially difficult to do so when you operate in the public realm. But that is what Ramara Township did last year when its council sanctioned, supported and paid for an outside review of the municipal ope...
By Ian McInroy, Barrie Examiner Residents of Centre Vespra, located west of Barrie on Sunnidale Road, will be watching the results of a Springwater Township council meeting on Wednesday night. Council will consider a draft bylaw — and potentially amending a zoning bylaw and establishing a holding pro...
By Andrew Philips Orillia Packet & Times ORO-MEDONTE – An Oro-Medonte resident who sounded the alarm over the township’s decision to turn a protected wetland into a parking lot wants the local conservation authority to employ “full, active and transparent justice.” Paul Sanderson said...
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