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Comment: Procedural fiasco at Collingwood council wrong on so many levels By Morgan Ian Adams Collingwood Enterprise Bulletin May 12 2011 Perhaps it was the appearance of being ‘rammed through’ council that elicited such a visceral reaction. It was also that it was former Leisure Services...
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By Morgan Ian Adams Collingwood Enterprise Bulletin May 13 2011 COLLINGWOOD — An industry in the town’s east end has given fire chief Trent Elyea 50,000 reasons to smile. On Friday afternoon, Elyea — and the Town of Collingwood — were presented with a $50,000 cheque from Amaizeingly Green that ...
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May 15th, 2011
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2011’s capital plan not out of the ordinary By Sara Ross The Packet & Times May 14 2011 They’re not reinventing the wheel. But city officials have tabled a capital budget that continues to address Orillia’s infrastructure deficit which has built up over the past two decades, Co...
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By Bruce Hain Simcoe.com May 12, 2011  INNISFIL — An environmentally friendly idea started last year by a Lefroy resident is picking up steam with the addition of two new locations. John Hurd of Electronic Waste Recycling started out with a single blue container at Daisy Mart on Killarney Beach Road ...
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By Miriam King Bradford Times May 12 2011 The Board of Trustees for the Gilford Community Hall, after years of volunteering their time and money to operate and maintain the community facility, located at Bell’s Lane just off the Gilford Rd., resigned en masse. But first, they oversaw an Annual ...
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By Miriam King Bradford Times March 12 2011 A Class Environmental Assessment is currently underway, looking at the potential widening of Simcoe County Rd. 4 (Yonge St.) to 4 lanes, from the 8th Line of Bradford West Gwillimbury to Hwy. 89. The widening is being proposed to address growth and traffic ...
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Change proposed to address province’s lack of respect By Miriam King Bradford Times March 12 2011 Calling it a “monumental night in the Town of Innisfil,” Mayor Barb Baguley opened the special meeting of Council on May 11, to present a plan for implementing Inspiring Innisfil 2020, ...
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New Tecumseth Free Press Online May 11, 2011 New Tecumseth has a $3.92 billion assessment base which it will tap to raise $19.2 million in property taxes for 2011 municipal purposes, plus $1.7 million to pay for waste management services from the County. Simcoe County will levy $10.1 million from New...
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Levels exceed limit for discharge into watercourse – but not detected in the drinking water New Tecumseth Free Press Online May 12, 2011 A hydrogeological study as part of the process to expand the Parson Road Reservoir in Alliston has turned up “elevated levels of Trichloroethlene (TCE) ...
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May 15th, 2011
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Agnew hopes Barrie works with  neighbours By Janis Ramsay Simcoe.com May 12, 2011  Learning from the lessons of the Site 41 controversy, Barrie is doing its homework on a new trash system. At a public meeting May 4, residents heard the system is part of a bigger waste management strategy to plan for ...