Council approves appointments despite concerns from some residents who wanted a byelection By Nathan Taylor Orillia Matters Oro-Medonte’s council is about to become whole again. At a special meeting this week, council approved the appointments of Ralph Hough as deputy mayor and Tammy DeSousa as Ward ...
Springwater Mayor Don Allen The charges against the mayor are related to a June, 2019, incident By Erika Engel Collingwood Today Springwater’s mayor will be in court next fall for a two-day trial surrounding charges of impaired and dangerous driving stemming from a June incident. Don Allen’s case wil...
Donna McCaw and Jan Beveridge, shown by the Grand River in Elora, are members of Save Our Water, which is fighting Nestle Canada’s plan to draw 1.6 million litres of water a day from a nearby well. COLE BURSTON / FOR THE TORONTO STAR The water supply in this small Ontario town faces ‘significant’ ris...
The late John Pitts by Frank Matys Orillia Today Momentum is building as the Couchiching Conservancy forges ahead with efforts to safeguard ecologically important lands for generations to come. The charitable land trust announced that a 185-acre tract of forest, grassland and wetland inside the Black...
The Reynolds Creek Wildland Fire burns in Glacier National Park, Montana in this photo taken July 21, 2015. The new U.S. study counted seedlings at 1,500 forest sites in the Rocky Mountains affected by 52 wildfires in five states in the U.S. Rockies between 1985 and 2015. Reuters photo Climate change...
From left, Ward 1 Councillor Ian Veitch, Ward 5 Councillor Randy Greenlaw, Mayor Harry Hughes, Ward 3 Councillor Cathy Keane and Ward 4 Councillor Shawn Scott. The electorate is weary, says Hughes AWARE News Network Citing fiscal responsibility, three of Oro-Medonte’s five members of council voted to...
News release from Simcoe County Starting February 3, 2020, households will receive garbage and recycling collection on alternating weeks, while green bin collection will continue every week. Your curbside waste collection is changing To bring consistency and predictability back to your weekly waste c...
Oro-Medonte near Mount St. Louis – Wikipedia Creative Commons AWARE Simcoe The following statement has been released by the AWARE Simcoe board of directors: Having transparency and accountability in government as the first item in its mission statement, AWARE Simcoe shares the growing concern o...
Growth never pays for itself and the cost is even worse in rural areas like Springwater, as everything starts from scratch By Bill French I attended the Public Statutory Meeting on the new Official Plan being developed by the Township of Springwater to gather further information as the Township moves...
Ramara Township wants to be able to opt out of conservation authority services; ‘Quite frankly, most of what (they do) we have the staff to do it’ By: Jessica Owen Orillia Today Ramara Township is looking to opt out of the services the Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority provides an...
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