No time to mess around on garbage issueBy Kate Harries AWARE Simcoe January 15 2010Simcoe County councillors, meeting in committee, have shaved a half percentage point off the 2011 cost to local taxpayers. The revised $355 million budget, comprising a 1.5 per cent levy increase compared to the 2 per ...
Council meal break gets the axe By MORGAN IAN ADAMS Collignwood Enterprise Bulletin January 14 2011COLLINGWOOD -- Councillors made their first budget cut, Monday night, chopping the pre-meeting meal that ate up $10,000 on an annual basis. ...
By NATHAN TAYLOR Orillia Packet and Times January 14 2011ORO-MEDONTE TWP. -- Environmental authorities have made their pitch for cash to Oro-Medonte Township.During a meeting Wednesday, council heard from the Severn Sound Environmental Association (SSEA), Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority (LS...
By Miriam King Bradford Times January 13 2011Bradford West Gwillimbury Council received an update from consultant Graeme Burt, of PlanningAlliance, regarding the Downtown Revitalization Strategy now in the works....
Deputy mayor becomes latest council member to criticize province’s growth plan By Chris Simon Innisfil Scope Jnaury 12 2011Despite a new approach to doing municipal business, Innisfil is still being treated unfairly by the provincial government, says the town's deputy mayor....
Proposed expansion would be costly and inefficient, says Environmental Defence By Chris Simon Innisfil Scope January 12 2011A well-known lobbyist group, and a member of an advisory committee overseeing the environmental assessment for the proposed expansion of the Lakeshore Water Pollution Control Pl...
Several proposed road projects getting a second glance By Chris Simon Innisfil Scope January 12 2011Nearly $7.3 million in proposed funding for Precinct 2A of the Innisfil Beach Road reconstruction should be chopped from the town's 2011 Capital Budget, according to councillor Ken Simpson. ...
By Miriam King editorial Bradford Times January 13 2011Bradford West Gwillimbury has been going through growing pains – in particular, the pain of road construction.Even though painful, the construction has been needed.Do we support the widening of Dissette and the 8th Line? Absolutely – ...
By Miriam King Bradford Times January 13 2011There was good news for the Town of Bradford West Gwillimbury, on January 11. Both the new Public Library/Cultural Centre and Leisure Centre are on budget – and likely, on time.Andrew Gordon, of MHPM Project Managers, described the 42,000 sq. ft. Lib...
By MORGAN IAN ADAMS Collingwood Enterprise Bulletin January 14 2011COLLINGWOOD — Town councillors will be given the “next steps” on the future of recreational facilities — including the municipality’s commitment to the Collingwood YMCA — in another week-and-a-half....