By Roberta Bell Orillia Packet & Times COLDWATER – Bolstering economic development in the region is going to be a challenge, but it’s one municipal politicians and their supporters hope to work with the provincial government on this year. Simcoe County is large and the concerns of constitu...
By Roberta Bell, Orillia Packet & Times The Ministry of the Environment is keeping an eye on Ramara Township after staff authorized potentially contaminated waste to be dumped at a decommissioned municipal quarry. After the drainage catch basins under the trucks in the bays at Ramara works yards ...
By John Edwards Collingwood Connection Brian Saunderson is hoping council opts for a different direction for the Town of Collingwood in 2015. After nearly two years of advocating for change away from the council table through the Better Together Collingwood initiative, Saunderson was elected in with...
By Ian Adams Wasaga Sun The developer of a proposed wind turbine project north of County Road 91 hopes for answers in 2015. WPD Canada’s proposal to erect eight 450-foot-tall wind turbines west of Stayner was presented to the public in 2010. This past summer, the company reached the point when ...
By Dominik Kurek Bradford West Gwillimbury Topic There’s a new sheriff in town and he wants to hear from you. New Bradford West Gwillimbury Mayor Rob Keffer says he’s looking forward to creating a more inclusive council that will inspire community engagement in the town’s decision-making process. “Th...
By Dominik Kurek Bradford West Gwillimbury Topic The new members of Bradford West Gwillimbury council are eager to do the work that is needed to get the job done for you. Council was sworn in Dec. 2 and had its first regular meeting Dec. 16, but the nine members spent time together well before that, ...
By Suzanne Carlaw, Chair, Horseshoe Valley Road Project Committee Simcoe County has proposed a project to spend millions of dollars to build truck lanes on Horseshoe Valley Road/County Road 22 within 4 kilometres, between 3rd Line and 4th Line, through the densely-populated residential, recreational ...
By Ian Adams Wasaga Sun WASAGA BEACH – Down with ties. Municipal councillors will be expected to be dressed in appropriate attire, but they won’t have to don ties, under new procedural rules that will be adopted by council. It was just one of the points in the new bylaw debated by Wasaga ...
Long-delayed project still within $28-million budget, says official By Jenni Dunning Midland Mirror PENETANGUISHENE – The long-awaited sewage treatment plant in Penetanguishene is expected to be fully completed in May or June, according to town staff. Discussion about the plant, the plans for which h...
Barrie Advance At its meeting on Dec.15, Springwater council made appointments to various committees and boards for the 2014-2018 term. The township committees and boards meet at scheduled times throughout the year and provide guidance and resources to council on a variety of topics. The public is we...
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