For 2013, there were some 20 Ontario municipalities that achieved a residential waste diversion rate of at least 50 per cent, meaning they diverted more materials than they sent to landfill From Solid Waste & Recycling Magazine Waste Diversion Ontario (WDO) has released residential waste diversio...
Two sessions set for Monday April 20 will include question and answer sessions By Kate Harries AWARE News Network It’s taken three years, but the public will finally get some explanations about the 2008 Simcoe County Official Plan that was spurned by the provincial government, rewritten in 2012, appr...
Orillia Packet & Times Simcoe County councillors have established a time and place for area residents interested in learning more about the ongoing official plan process. Two public information sessions are slated for April 20 at the Simcoe County Museum on Highway 26. The first meeting will tak...
Etobicoke MPP Peter Milczyn lauds bill for changes he called for in his career as councillor By Tamara Shephard Etobicoke Guardian The Ontario government is proposing reforms it argued would give residents more say in how their communities grow and restore local decision-making to municipalities. Bi...
Remember how the local Oro-Medonte residents banded together to fight the Weber’s hamburger outlet on Highway 400 proposal? The Township wisely supported the residents, went to the Ontario Municipal Board and won. Now two more groups of residents have formed to fight unwelcome proposals in their neig...
By Ian McInroy, Barrie Examiner A Simcoe County committee project looking at ways to get area residents into the workforce is being considered by county councillors. The Simcoe County 2015-19 Labour Market Strategy is a project by the county’s Ontario Works, the economic development department ...
By Brad Pritchard Alliston Herald BEETON – A stop worker order will remain in place while Simcoe County reviews the application process that led to a Beeton landowner obtaining a special permit to clear 30 acres of mature trees. For the duration of the order, Simcoe County Forester Graeme Davis...
New Tecumseth Free Press Online Tecumseth Estates (Rizzardo) has appealed last week’s stop work order issued by Simcoe County that temporarily suspended the special permit the upper tier granted to allow the clearing of approximately 30 acres of woodlot on their 9th Line property in Beeton. The...
New Tecumseth Free Press Online New Tecumseth mayor Rick Milne spent $15,400, of which $12,262.84 was subject to the spending limit of $27,269, to win the October 2014 municipal elections, according to his financial return posted on the Town’s web site. Mr. Milne reported contributions totalli...
Released by County of Simcoe Official Statement: Please attribute to Graeme Davis, County Forester, County of Simcoe: In 2012, the County of Simcoe issued a Stop Work Order to Maria Rizzardo (Tecumseth Estates Inc) under the County of Simcoe Forest Conservation By-law as it was brought to the County’...
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