By Ian McInroy, Barrie Examiner Simcoe County is looking at its future recycling and waste-disposal options, and it’s looking for input from county residents. The county’s Solid Waste Management Strategy has recommended the potential development of two infrastructure projects — an o...
The October 27th municipal election resulted in another huge turnover in the membership of County Council, more than 50%. In some municipalities none of the incumbents on council survived. One of the biggest issues almost everywhere is transparency. People want easy access to information, not to be s...
From Simcoe County website The County will be hosting a public information session to provide further details on this project and outline the proposed siting methodology. The public is invited to attend one of the two sessions on December 2: Tuesday, December 2, 2014 Simcoe County Museum Meeting Room...
Notes from final meeting of current term By Noelle Rancourt AWARE News Network Collins/Hough Item 15. CCW 14-397 Annual Report Summaries for Various Closed landfill Sites Midland Deputy Mayor Stephan Kramp raised concerns at the November 10 meeting of Simcoe County Council about a closed landfill s...
New Tecumseth Free Press Online Simcoe County council on Monday approved a bigger draw from development charges and reserve account to fund the estimated $794,000 additional costs to build new paramedic stations in Alliston and Beeton as scheduled in 2015. However, because the recommendation is rela...
By Cheryl Browne, Barrie Examiner Small home-grown organizations that have sprung up in response to town councils’ development decisions are organizing their efforts to affect the winds of change in municipal politics. “We’re not against development, we’re just for better planning,”...
New Tecumseth Free Press Online Simcoe County is discovering its new property on Industrial Parkway was more amenable to farming than construction of a new paramedic station, whose costs are the only thing currently growing on site. In his update report to County councillors included on the Nov. 10th...
By Ian McInroy, Barrie Examiner ORO-MEDONTE TWP. — A group of Horseshoe Valley residents continue to fight a proposal by Simcoe County to make changes to a stretch of County Road 22 (Horseshoe Valley Road) between Line 3 and Line 4. The county is proposing to improve intersections along the stretch, ...
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