By Kate Harries AWARE News Network Innisfil Councillor Doug Lougheed has defeated Shelburne Councillor Walter Benotto in an election for the 2015 chair of the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority. The surprise defeat of a Conservation Authority veteran came this morning in a secret ballot of the...
By Ian Adams Wasaga Sun WASAGA BEACH – Down with ties. Municipal councillors will be expected to be dressed in appropriate attire, but they won’t have to don ties, under new procedural rules that will be adopted by council. It was just one of the points in the new bylaw debated by Wasaga ...
By Ian Adams Wasaga Sun WASAGA BEACH — Municipal staff have taken a scalpel to the town’s budget, slicing off another few points. On Tuesday, councillors were presented with a second draft of the 2015 budget. The first draft presented to the previous council showed a tax increase of 1.39%; this lates...
By Michael Gennings, Collingwood Enterprise Bulletin A new era in Wasaga Beach municipal politics started Tuesday night with the swearing in of the town’s council for the 2014-2018 term. Justice Dennis Wilson swore in the new seven-member council. Mayor Brian Smith, who beat incumbent Cal Patterson i...
By Sandy Agnew AWARE News Network Following a deputation by Paul Bonwick (president and CEO of Compenso Communications, representing the Collingwood Airport Industrial Development) complaining about their high plan review fees, the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority (NVCA) board has thrown out...
By Michael Gennings Collingwood Enterprise Bulletin Brian Smith will be Wasaga Beach’s new mayor. Smith beat incumbent Cal Patterson, who was after a fourth term and Deputy Mayor David Foster, who was hoping to move up. Nina Bifolchi, a current councillor, will be the town’s new deputy m...
Across Simcoe County, voters make clear they want change By Kate Harries AWARE News Network Updated October 29, 2014 Anti-sprawl candidates have swept to office in two battleground municipalities in Simcoe County. Not even a message from Premier Kathleen Wynne could save the pro-development incumbent...
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