By Brad Pritchard Alliston Herald November 25 2013 ESSA – Essa council has approved a plan that will fix an erosion problem along a portion of the Nottawasaga River close to homes on Nottawasaga Drive and Brown’s Line in Angus. The decision was made after council received an update on the eros...
Bradford Times November 21 2013 Bradford West Gwillimbury Council received a pep talk from Dr. Frank Clayton, Real Estate and Land Economist, on the value of the Hwy. 400 Employment Lands, and the proposed 5th Line-400 interchange – and heard from two developers, who urged the Town to move forw...
New Tecumseth Free Press November 11, 2013 A Simcoe County governance committee meeting scheduled for last month but cancelled, will try again this week to deal with a proposed Code of Conduct that would augment Municipal Act guidelines for councillors. In this case, a Code of Conduct would be a firs...
New Tecumseth Free Press November 20, 2013 On Monday night, New Tecumseth mayor Mike MacEachern told councillors that he raised the issue of an Integrity Commissioner as a means of dealing with future complaints related to the Code of Conduct. But he would not when pressed via emails today to explain...
New Tecumseth Free Press November 18, 2013 The preferred solution to head-off future hazards to existing properties on Nottawasaga Drive and on Concessions 3 and 4, immediately north on Brown’s line in Angus, is to reconfigure the Nottawasaga River channel and floodplain so it migrates away fr...
A study by the Neptis Foundation finds that Ontario’s policies to stop sprawl are working only in some regions Toronto Star Editorial Nov 11 2013 Governments can sometimes create visionary plans that win international acclaim but make little difference in reality. It’s too bad, but that’s the outcome...
Seven years ago, the Ontario government’s plan to protect dwindling farmland was lauded as visionary. In fact, it’s been a bust By Thomas Walkom Toronto Star Nov 08 2013 Seven years ago, the Ontario Liberal government trumpeted its new law to curb urban sprawl as bold and visionary. “Peo...
New Tecumseth Free Press November 7, 2013Simcoe County is about to become a partner in the Lake Simcoe Regional Airport (LSRA) through a $1.3 million agreement to purchase 20 per cent of the shares from the City of Barrie, which currently owns 80 per cent. Oro Medonte holds the other 20 per cent. ...
By Brad Pritchard Alliston Herald November 7 2013 NEW TECUMSETH - New Tecumseth Coun. Jamie Smith is taking a shot at the deputy mayor’s chair next year. ...
Why Springwater doesn’t need any share of it for Midhurst By Kate Harries and David Strachan AWARE News Network As the county’s amended Official Plan inches its way through the Ontario Municipal Board process, Simcoe County’s lawyers have their eye on one important prize. The county has to have...
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