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Feb 14th, 2013
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New Tecumseth Free Press February 11, 2013New Tecumseth councillors are 1-0 in fighting off allegations of improper in camera meetings, after the Town's Closed Meeting Investigator ruled that they "exercised reasonable discretion" in discussing proposed employee wage increases in private, last month....
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New Tecumseth Free Press February 11, 2013In December 2012, Free Press Online reported that New Tecumseth spent over $5,000 to oppose a Freedom of Information request. Since then, the monthly summary report of expenditures, no longer references what the legal fees incurred were for....
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Feb 11th, 2013
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UPDATE Re: Weber's Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) HearingLetter from Concerned Medonte Residents Group February 11 2013 Dear Residents of Oro-Medonte and Simcoe County,Wednesday February 13 at 10am is now a pre-hearing to deal with preliminary and procedural matters (mainly identifying parties and par...
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Feb 10th, 2013
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By Brad Pritchard Simcoe.com Feb 12, 2013 ADJALA-TOSORONTIO - Adjala-Tosorontio’s planning department says “misinformation” is to blame for New Tecumseth’s lack of support over the township’s growth plans for Everett.At last week’s Adjala-Tosorontio council meeting, director of planning Jacquie Tsche...
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Feb 10th, 2013
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News Release Suzuki Foundation February 7, 2013 TORONTO — A patchwork of remaining farmland and green space in Ontario's rapidly growing Golden Horseshoe region provides millions of dollars in services and benefits, according to a David Suzuki Foundation study. The report examines the Whitebelt Study...
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Feb 10th, 2013
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Simcoe.com February 5 2013COOKSTOWN — Cookstown residents, landlords and business owners are being asked if the village core should be protected by becoming a Heritage Conservation District.The Town of Innisfil is in the first phase of a study to determine the ideas is warranted, desirable and suppor...
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Feb 2nd, 2013
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Midland Free Press January 29, 2013 University of Guelph professor Stefan Bolliger brought 45 landscape architecture students to Penetanguishene Monday and Tuesday to tour the downtown, St. Anne’s Roman Catholic Church, the waterfront and Rotary Park. Bolliger has been a landscape architect for 40 ye...
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Feb 1st, 2013
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The following letter has been sent to Bradford West Gwillimbury media January 30 2012At the last council meeting Councillors Simpson and Lamb expressed concern about the town’s ongoing use of debt. It was said that it currently takes $5 mil a year to service our outstanding debt. Their concerns were ...
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Jan 26th, 2013
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By Brad Pritchard Simcoe.Com Jan 22, 2013 - ESSA - A handful of rooftop solar panel projects being proposed in Essa have gotten the thumb of approval from council....
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Jan 26th, 2013
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Volunteer groups upset by council’s decision not to renew agreements By Mike Dodd Midland Mirror Jan 24, 2013  TINY TOWNSHIP – Parks and recreation associations in Tiny Township are bewildered after municipal council decided not to renew their existing agreements. Christine Patenaude is one of the vo...