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Oct 12th, 2015
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Please attend tomorrow’s council meeting! 9 am, Midhurst AWARE News Network Tomorrow, Simcoe County Councillors will decide whether to continue with a bid to recover legal costs from AWARE Simcoe, relating to the citizens’ group’s application for a judicial review of the county’s decision to li...
Oct 12th, 2015
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AWARE Simcoe letter  — October 8 2015 Dear Members and Supporters: AWARE Simcoe, a group of taxpaying residents, is in danger of being sued for approximately $50,000 in legal costs, some from a developer and some from Simcoe County. This is because we asked for an injunction to stop the clear-c...
Oct 9th, 2015
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News release from Oro-Medonte Township Oro-Medonte Council had a Special Council meeting scheduled for October 21st to receive the staff report regarding the 2015 Temporary Use By-law application for Burl’s Creek Event Grounds. The Township has now received an appeal filed by Burl’s Creek for the Ont...
Oct 7th, 2015
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New Tecumseth Free Press Online As reported here first on Monday, Simcoe County met a court imposed deadline of October 5 to submit its reasons for seeking recovery of all or part of its approximate $23,485 legal bill defending against Aware-Simcoe’s motion for a temporary injunction of a speci...
Sep 30th, 2015
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New Tecumseth Free Press Online Tecumseth Estates will be seeking a court-ordered award for cost reimbursements from AWARE Simcoe related to the August 19 motion hearing for a temporary injunction of a tree cutting permit pending a judicial review application of the process that issued it last winter...
Sep 29th, 2015
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Opponents of project planning Ontario Municipal Board appeal By Jenni Dunning Midland Mirror MIDLAND – Tears were shed on both sides of a Midland council decision to build a health hub in Edgehill Park. Deputy Mayor Mike Ross choked back tears as he explained his reasoning for voting in favour of the...
In Barrie
Sep 15th, 2015
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By Laurie Watt Barrie Advance The Simcoe County District School Board should go re-read the city’s development rules before it revises its south high school plans. That’s the message Mayor Jeff Lehman and councillors told senior school board officials Monday night, officials who left the room quietly...
Sep 15th, 2015
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By Laura Finney Innisfil Journal The marina at Friday Harbour is finally full of water. A dam was put in place at the mouth of the marina and last week water from Lake Simcoe started flowing in slowly and naturally said Shauna Dudding, Geranium Corp. chief engineer and vice-president of land developm...
Sep 14th, 2015
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From Jack Gibbons, North Gwillimbury Forest Alliance DG Group’s bid to cut down close to 32,000 trees and destroy more than 100 acres of wetland and woodlands on its Maple Lake Estates property to build a mobile home park clearly cannot pass any reasonable test of ecological stewardship. The La...
Sep 13th, 2015
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Springwater News September 10 2015 Simcoe County Waste Management To avoid the development of more landfill sites, the County has been exploring various ways of keeping materials out of the waste stream and at the same time reduce the cost of waste management. They have undertaken studies and have ha...