Category Archives: Local News

Grey County Council has made a commitment to a zero tax increase in 2010. That could mean some tough decisions for councillors in their upcoming budget deliberations. But West Grey Mayor Kevin Eccles ...

Hanover has a water mystery on its hands. Staff suspect the majority of water loss is due to gasket leaks along the main transmission lines. Leaks that Councillor Bob White would like to see fixed. In...

Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Leader was in Kincardine rolling out his new Small Business Jobs Plan. One of the ideas in the plan is to suspend the payroll tax. Hudak says why the McGuinty ...

The Community Improvement Plan for downtown Port Elgin is now complete. The process began back in July 2008 with a series of meeting and open houses. Saugeen Shores Councillor Luke Charbonneau says st...

Canada’s most famous albino groundhog is predicting six more weeks of winter. Wiarton Willie saw his shadow when roused from his slumber this morning. Folklore tells us if groundhog sees his sha...

The first budget public meeting will be held at 6 PM tonight at the municipal office in Teeswater. Council and staff have a surplus of around 200 thousand dollars from last year to help this year̵...

It was a special treat for Hanover Councillors as they toured the construction site of the town’s new Regional Recreational Centre on Monday. Mayor Kathi Maskell says she was overwhelmed by the ...

A new tact is being taken between Arran Elderslie officials and the owner of the Paisley Inn. The new Chief Building Official, Steve Walmsley says a meeting last week with Burke Maidlow was productive...

Saugeen Shores Council is into budget sessions. Councillor Luke Charbonneau says it’s inevitable there will be an increase, even if it’s just one that reflects the inflationary rise over t...

Owen Sound and area residents were brought up to speed about the proposed new regional recreation centre which will be built at Victoria Park. About 150 people attended a public meeting on Monday at t...