By Bill Tremblay Orangeville Banner All votes will now be recorded votes in Orangeville’s council chambers. Traditionally, a councillor would call a recorded vote if they perceived the issue as particularly import to municipal business. On Monday (Jan. 20), council decided to record every vote they c...
New Tecumseth Free Press Online Simcoe County council’s direction to its senior staff to keep the 2015 levy increase to one per cent over last year, has resulted in $1.389 million worth of adjustments to the draft. The impact will lower the previously projected two per cent average property t...
By Brad Pritchard Alliston Herald NEW TECUMSETH – New Tecumseth’s trail troubles are far from over, but the town has committed to moving forward with the Trans Canada Trail. After much debate Monday, council voted in favour of starting the second phase of the project along the abandoned rail c...
By Rick Vanderlinde Innisfil Journal Last spring, Innisfil’s previous council set a ceiling of 2.5 per cent for this year’s property tax increase. But one of the town’s newest councillors says annual tax hikes coupled with higher water and sewer rates are too much for some property owners to bear. “I...
Ontario’s 1st Zero Waste Conference was held at Orillia’s Lakehead University last summer. One of the outcomes from the Conference was a list of action items that attendees requested be forwarded to the province to encourage policy changes that will help reduce waste in Ontario. Gord Joy...
‘Rare’ for maximum amount to be awarded by Department of Canadian Heritage By Jenni Dunning Midland Mirror PENETANGUISHENE – In a “rare” move, the federal government is giving Penetanguishene $500,000 for its Champlain celebrations – the maximum it can dole out for a historical legacy project. “It’...
From Peter Anderson Tiny Township Tiny Township is considering an official plan and zoning amendment to allow Beamish Construction limited to expand its existing aggregate operation on part lot 79 and 80 (40 Darby Road ) North to 2 Darby Road. To my knowledge no one has involved the Severn Sound Envi...
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