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By Maija Hoggett Simcoe.com March 2 2010NEW TECUMSETH – It just got more expensive to put up a sign in New Tecumseth.In a special meeting Monday night, New Tecumseth council approved changes to the town’s sign bylaw. Along with being more specific about freedom of speech and inflatable si...
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By Bruce Hain Simcoe.com March 2 2010A man well known in Alcona has entered his name to run in Ward 3 in this year’s municipal election. Rick Ellis, owner of the Adam & Eve Tanning Salon and Tattoo Emporium in the Crossroads Plaza, will be promoting job creation, especially for area youth, as th...
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Simcoe.com – February 23 2010 –  Keith Hull is the eighth person to declare his candidacy for Collingwood council for the 2010 municipal election.Hull, 38, has lived in Collingwood since 1996 and has served on the heritage committee, Vision 2020 committee and the Affordable Housing Task F...
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Bruce Hain Simcoe.com February 19 2010 It’s time for a culture change within the Town of Innisfil, according to the municipality’s new top bureaucrat. John Skorobohacz, the Town of Innisfil’s recently hired chief administrative officer (CAO), spoke to members of the Greater Innisfil Chamber of Commer...
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Simcoe.com February 12 2010 – It seems with every passing week, one or two more candidates enter the race for the New Tecumseth municipal election this fall. This week is no exception.Corine Dol and Wayne Noye have added their names to New Tecumseth’s election ballot.Dol is a real estate ...
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By Maija Hoggett Simcoe.com February 9 2010TOWN OF NEW TECUMSETH – New Tecumseth’s election ballot is filling up, and there’s still seven months to file for one of 10 seats at the town council table. Last week, three candidates filed their nominations.Rick Milne, the current deputy ...
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By Trina Berlo Simcoe.com February 2 2010Wasaga Beach residents will be using touch-screen voting machines again when they go to the polls Oct. 25.  Council approved the use of the machines for the upcoming municipal election at its Jan. 26 meeting. Similar machines were first used in Wasaga Beach in...
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By Joanne Saunders Simcoe.com March 16 2010Many of us have fond memories of the call of loons echoing across our waterways. Now, it seems, that haunting sound, so definitive of the Canadian wild, is seldom heard unless one travels much further north.Wasaga Beach resident David Featherstone, in his jo...
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By Chris Simon Innisfil Scope April 21 2010Implementing a town-wide water conservation program would be too costly to the municipality, according to a report released by Innisfil’s wastewater superintendent.Over the last few months, town staff have been investigating the feasibility of creating...
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New Tec council pay and expenses climbed 32 per cent in four yearsNEW TECUMSETH – April 6 2010 Simcoe,com – New Tecumseth council members received $286,991 in payouts last year for their salary, benefits, mileage and other expenses. The expenses were made public at a recent council meetin...