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Oct 1st, 2016
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Second update: Oct. 7 date has been confirmed. By Kate Harries AWARE News Network Received through the Ontario Municipal Board process regarding PL111181, which is the number assigned to the Springwater Official Plan Amendment 38, a notice that Simcoe County lawyer Roger Beaman, with the concurrence ...
Sep 29th, 2016
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AWARE Simcoe news release Simcoe County has thumbed its nose at the people of Springwater and made a mockery of democracy with its behind-closed-doors deal to grant a population allocation to the Midhurst developers’ group. The decision, announced today, is a reversal of the position the county...
Sep 29th, 2016
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 Surprise agreement between County and developers okays further population for lands in Midhurst News release from Springwater Township The Township of Springwater is shocked and dismayed at the surprise announcement by the County of Simcoe that it “has reached an agreement with representatives from ...
Sep 29th, 2016
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Simcoe County news release County of Simcoe Council reached an agreement with representatives from the Midhurst developer group for a resolution of the 20,000 Population Allocation program designated under the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe. This program permits the County of Simcoe to ...
Sep 27th, 2016
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  New Tecumseth Free Press Simcoe County council today decided against implementing recommendations from its solid waste management department (SWM) that would have made utilizing a green bin for diversion of organics mandatory to be eligible for weekly curbside collection. Instead, the proposal...
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Sep 26th, 2016
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Simcoe County waste management staff are struggling to find ways to increase waste diversion rates from the current 60% to reach the target of 71% by 2020. The struggle isn’t so much with how to do it as it is to persuade their bosses, County Council, to give them the go ahead. Staff are presenting [...
Sep 23rd, 2016
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News release from AWARE Simcoe Simcoe County should not be acting as an agent for a developer in pursuing a costs award, a spokesperson for AWARE Simcoe says. “AWARE Simcoe believes it is totally inappropriate for County lawyer Marshall Green to be representing both the County and Tecumseth Estates i...
Sep 22nd, 2016
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Simcoe County proposal would see garbage left behind if green bin isn’t curbside CTV Barrie Simcoe County waste management staff is considering an unconventional way of getting people to use their organic bins. Waste management director Rob McCullough says staff is considering not collecting regular ...
Sep 20th, 2016
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By Cheryl Browne, Barrie Examiner It isn’t easy being green. But the lone protestor at the Simcoe County Museum railing at the county’s choice of placement for its new Organics Processing Facility (OPF) and Materials Management Facility (MMF) didn’t mind. “I live on Horseshoe Valley Road near the pro...
Sep 20th, 2016
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  Letter from AWARE Simcoe board member and Beeton resident Stephanie MacLellan to New Tecumseth Free Press Regarding your story that Simcoe County is aggressively pursuing its cost award of $5,000 from AWARE Simcoe, an award County Council decided to give away if collected, we learn now County ...