Some questioning if we should become Regional Municipality of Simcoe By Sara Carson Barrie Advance July 24 2015 For the greater good: That’s the County of Simcoe’s motto. But when it comes to funding costly water and wastewater infrastructure, it’s each municipality for itself, said Innisfil’s vetera...
By John Bacher Sierra Club Ontario Ontario’s environmental movement should be celebrating a remarkable victory won by a two year struggle for the re-opening of Springwater Provincial Park in Midhurst, 10 kilometres north of Barrie. Springwater is a 193 hectare forested park, with picnic grounds and 1...
from Beeton residents . Receive the latest updates regarding a grassroots effort by residents to “Save the Beeton woods” . Bring the family! There’s a treasure basket for the kids to choose a toy, T-shirts for sale, Prizes for the first 10 donations received. A family fun and inform...
The last two weeks has been quite busy as we approached the summer season. We speak of Springwater as a community of communities. Canada Day illustrated the uniqueness of some of those communities. Canada Day In Minesing there was a family oriented event with a special competition for those that want...
Springwater’s Allen, Hanna move to safeguard farmland from the Midhurst Ratepayers’ Association Agriculture is one of the largest employers in Springwater. It contributes a significant amount to our local economy and, as such, was deemed an area of opportunity for Springwater in the Econo...
AWARE Simcoe news release AWARE Simcoe is seeking a Judicial Review of Simcoe County’s hearing and decision regarding Beeton Woods. County Councillors voted May 12, 2015 to unconditionally lift a stop-work order that had been issued March 3 to Tecumseth Estates. The hearing was held April 14. Lawyer ...
AWARE News Network A crowd-funding campaign has been launched to save the Beeton Woods. The appeal on the gofundme website states that the funds will be used to retain legal representation to address problems in the permits application and approval process, and to obtain expert assessments of the va...
By Sara Carson Orillia Today Ontario’s ombudsman will soon oversee all of Simcoe County’s councils and their hired integrity commissioners. On May 21, Ontario ombudsman André Marin announced when this oversight, under the Public Sector and MPP Accountability and Transparency Act, will come into force...
Tiny Township Council Meeting Monday May 25, 201 By Vickie Kee AWARE Simcoe A presentation was made by Ms. Cathy Kytayko, Director, Social Housing and Midland Mayor Gord McKay, Chair, Affordable Housing Advisory Committee from the County of Simcoe and Penetanguishene Mayor and County Warden, Gerry Ma...
Council votes against appealing County decision New Tecumseth Fress Press Online New Tecumseth councillors voted last night against launching an appeal of the May 12th decision by Simcoe County council that lifted a stop work order and reinstated a special permit granted to Tecumseth Estates (Rizzard...
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