By Roberta Bell, Orillia Packet & Times A plan to manage the massive influx of traffic expected to go through the entrances of Burl’s Creek Event Grounds this summer is not yet in place. “It’s still in the raft states,” said Jerry Ball, Oro-Medonte Township’s director of transportation and enviro...
Paying for the last stand of trees: Club targeted by developer at OMB for defence of Dunlap Observatory From the Richmond Hill Naturalists Dear Fellow Concerned Citizens: “Help one another; there’s no time like the present and no present like the time.” – James Durst, songwriter The Richmond Hill N...
By Laurie Watt Barrie Advance The first generation of wood ducks that nested in boxes installed last year are returning from their southern U.S. winter homes. At the first few sites in the Oro-Medonte hills, wood ducks are beginning to nest again. “What’s really neat is waterfowl, when they come back...
UPDATE – scroll down for link to LSRCA open letter From Jack Gibbons North Gwillimbury Forest Alliance Today, the board members of the Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority (LSRCA) refused to close the door to development in provincially significant wetlands. The board’s actions have...
Human Beings are the Voice for all Life Forms Letter to the Alliston Herald from Danny Beaton, Tiny Township BEETON – A little forest on a hill is threatened by a developer who owns lots of property in Simcoe County. I was there to witness many intelligent people present their case to stop the ...
New Tecumseth Free Press Online Simcoe County is now accepting Requests for Expressions of Interest from any land owner interested in selling their land to the upper tier for a proposed organics processing facility. The deadline to apply for consideration is May 22nd. Any site(s) shortlisted will be ...
New Tecumseth Free Press Online A memorandum of understanding (MOU) has been reached between Simcoe County and the Town of Bradford West Gwillimbury that will split the $37 million local share of the estimated $54 million cost to build a new interchange at Highway 400 at the 5th Line. The provincial ...
By Brent Preston Huffington Post April 21 2015 You could be forgiven for thinking that the shine has come off the small farm movement in the recent past. Last summer, an op-ed piece in the New York Times titled Don’t Let Your Children Grow Up To Be Farmers kicked off the debate, warning that &#...
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