New Tecumseth Free Press July 3, 2013 Simcoe County councillors beat back a series of recommendations put forward by the waste management department that included considerations for hard caps on bag limits, full user pay, mandatory separation of recyclable and organics, and reallocation of about $38...
By Bruce Hain Innisfil Journal Jul 03, 2013 Getting food to your table fresher and faster. That’s one of the goals driving the Simcoe County Food Distribution Hub feasibility study now underway. ...
Letter to New Tecumseth Free Press June 26, 2013 I am not appraised of who has mandated the formation and subsequent discussions going on under the title of "urban nodes" is it the Provincial government or from County? ...
By Danny Beaton First Nations Drum Newspaper June 2013Ontario has a very large number of tribes, natives, indigenous populations that have survived all forms of deceit so far from non native policies, agendas and activities. Yet the way things are going non natives might not survive from the deceit o...
By Sara Ross, Orillia Packet & Times June 28 2013An eight-foot-tall hogweed towered over Bob Bowles in Orillia’s north ward Thursday afternoon.The poisonous plant was growing along Sundial Creek on a city property off Sundial Drive.“If we watch for it and eradicate it when we see it, I think we can k...
By Meade Helman AWARE News Network June 26 2013After a nearly 2 year process, at the June 25 special meeting of council, Bradford West Gwillimbury council voted to retain the South Simcoe Police Service (SSPS). Council congratulated themselves on a job well done and savings achieved. (Interestingly t...
By Kate Harries AWARE News Network June 21 2013It wasn’t exactly a fun day at the Ontario Municipal Board pre-hearing into the County’s Official Plan. Here’s what happened yesterday: NO to the 150 people whose signed the participant forms AWARE Simcoe collected and tried to present to the board.NO to...
By Kate Harries AWARE News Network June 21 2013If natural justice were the objective, the Ontario Municipal Board will toss out the motion bought by Simcoe County to dismiss the Midhurst Ratepayers Association from the hearing into the County’s Official Plan.The decision was reserved by a two-person ...
By Douglas Glynn Midland Free Press June 20 2013PENETANGUISHENE – Simcoe County has been criticized for trying to road block efforts of a Midhurst ratepayers group to obtain party status at an Ontario Municipal Board hearing into the county’s amended official plan.Penetanguishene Mayor Gerry Marshall...
New Tecumseth Free Press June 20, 2013 Simcoe County is projecting a 2014 tax levy increase of two per cent, as part of its "initial direction and assumptions for the development of the budget draft," which would raise approximately $2.6 million more than the 2013 levy of $131,472,447. ...
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