News release from Sierra Club Ontario December 17 2010Sierra Club Ontario is pleased to announce the creation of the Great Lakes Section of SCO. Led by veteran Great Lakes advocate Mary Muter and comprised of Sierra Club members with specific experience and focus on Great Lakes issues, the new sectio...
AWARE Simcoe December 17 2010Thanks to diligent voting by hundreds of supporters, Utopia’s Bell’s Gristmill is one of 30 finalists in the Aviva Community Fund competition. It will now be evaluated by a panel of judges who will choose the winners, to be announced January 25. Congratulation...
By Kate Harries AWARE Simcoe December 16 2010Oops.Orillia Mayor Angelo Orsi used the “D” word.“I know that there’s a need for a future dump site or some sort of waste management solution,” Orsi told Simcoe County Council's inaugural meeting this afternoon. “We really want to be part of that, I think ...
By Frank Matys Simcoe.com Dec 16, 2010 ORILLIA - A staff skit that made light of single mothers, the homeless and people with mental illnesses had no place at a city Christmas party, Mayor Angelo Orsi says. ...
New Tecumseth Free Press Online December 13, 2010 On the eve of a new round of appointments to the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority (NVCA) board of directors comes a request to the municipal partners with two representatives to scale that back to one. ...
Enforcement failures by an environment ministry dedicated to business, with no care for dwindling water supplies By Sharon Yovanoff AWARE Simcoe December 15 2010 The Places To Grow legislation and its proposed Amendments are in my opinion not a bad piece of work. Keeping growth to areas capable of ab...
Krystyn Tully, Waterkeeper Weekly December 13 2010The Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development released his annual report on December 7, and the information is pretty grim for Canadian waterways....
By Laurie Watt Simcoe.com Dec 11, 2010BARRIE – Barrie has more time to put the finishing touches on tens of millions in infrastructure projects – from creek culverts to roads to an arena upgrade to a new fire station and a new theatre.Dec. 2, Prime Minister Stephen Harper gave municipalities ac...
By Jay Gutteridge Simcoe.com Dec 09, 2010The Town of Bradford West Gwillimbury leisure services department is busy working on the second step: developing activities that take full advantage of the new facilities.The new leisure centre is scheduled to open early in 2012.The leisure services department...
Rick Vanderlinde Simcoe.com Dec 10, 2010INNISFIL — Former deputy mayor Gord Wauchope and his wife, Brenda, do not want their Innisfil Beach Road home placed on the town’s heritage registry. ...