By Ian Adams Wasaga Sun There’s been a shake-up at town hall, as the Town of Wasaga Beach and its clerk and manager of planning and development parted ways on Thursday. Clerk Twyla Nicholson had served as the town’s clerk for six years. Manager of planning Ray Kelso had worked for the municipality fo...
By Laurie Watt Barrie Advance Springwater Township Coun. Sandy McConkey wants some straight answers about what transpired in a meeting on the Midhurst Secondary Plan with the municipal affairs minister and her mayor.And she’s not alone. Mayor Bill French and Deputy-mayor Don Allen met with Minister o...
Springwater News August 13 2015 I will open with, “My life is definitely not dull!” MFIPPA (Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act) As mentioned some time ago, there was a Freedom of Information request to have access to my personal email account that contained any communicati...
Report of Tiny Township Council Meeting Monday August 10, 2015 By Vickie Kee AWARE Tiny Mr. Donald Stubbs presented a report to council regarding the proposed Woodland Beach Recreational Park located on Concession Two in Tiny Township. Phase One will consist of fifty seasonal campsites, a comf...
New Tecumseh Free Press Online A hearing seeking a temporary injunction to prevent the clearing of 30 acres of woodlot on the Tecumseth Estates’ property on the 9th Line in Beeton ended today without a decision. Instead, the three parties – AWARE Simcoe, the applicant; and the respondant...
Public meeting set for Thursday night New Tecumseth Free Press Online Adjala-Tosorontio mayor Mary Small Brett has called a special public meeting for Thursday night starting at 6:30 pm to consider an Official Plan and Zoning By-law Amendment at 5556 and 5670 County Road 13 at 5 Sideroad, that would...
By Laurie Watt Barrie Advance Grant Thornton in Orillia is auditing Springwater Mayor Bill French’s election campaign expenses. A joint Springwater – Oro Medonte compliance audit committee decided the mayor’s expenses, which totalled $16,293.36, needed closer examination, even though they are a...
By John Bacher Springwater Park Citizens Coalition In his Encyclical Letter, Laudato si’, (On Care for Our Common Home), the Holy Father Francis has made an urgent call for humanity to reverse the process where, “The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of fi...
Letter to the Barrie Examiner (Re: ‘Park back in business; Springwater’ in the July 10 edition of the Examiner) On April 1, 2013 the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) closed Springwater Park by locking the gates. When the MNR locked these gates, Tracy Mill, the assistant deputy ...
AWARE News Network Simcoe County has come up with a short list of seven possible sites for a composting and waste transfer facility. A staff report explaining the list is on the County Council agenda for Tuesday August 11. Presently, the County sends its organics to Hamilton. Five of the short-listed...
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