Ron Awde On Thursday, September 16, with only twelve days before the commencement of the Snowy Ridge Hearing, The Environmental Review Tribunal issued a decision after several weeks of delay, to grant Capstone Infrastructure’s motion to strike key elements of witness statements dealing with noise. As part of the Snowy… Continue reading
Melodie Seto On Tuesday, Sept. 15, the popular Peterborough entrepreneurial social event, E-Connect, featured two successful business women as guest speakers for the evening, one of which created her business from home on a farm in Bailieboro. Leslie Scott, founder of Walton Wood Farm with her husband Peter, shared her… Continue reading
Karen Graham With many years of food experience in his youth, Onafrychuk was interested in launching a business of his own to develop his own style of cooking, but was not prepared to give up his day job and take a flyer. This year he ventured into the food world… Continue reading
Karen Graham Last Tuesday, NDP Candidate Mike Perry was at the Legion offering some insights to the platform his party is proposing in the upcoming federal election. He first outlined the Fair Vote System, a new way of allocating seats in Parliament which is based on proportional representation which was… Continue reading
Leonard Knott Cavan Monaghan Township staff asked Council at its September 14th meeting to begin negotiations with Towerhill Developments Inc. to acquire approximately four hectares (10 acres) of land for the construction of a new community centre and associated amenities. Council members expressed some concern about the need to buy… Continue reading
Karen Graham After absorbing the students from South Monaghan Public School last September, enrolment at Millbrook South Cavan has stabilized and sits this month at 416 students. Principal Sheryl Hunter believes the school day schedule with two 40 minute breaks is very beneficial for students, as it allows the school… Continue reading
Sarah Sobanski Last Sunday was Ontario Heritage Foundation’s second Doors Open tour in the township of Manvers and surrounding area. In partnership with Manvers Historical Society, the tour encouraged history buffs to discover the many historic sites in Bethany, Pontypool and surrounding area. One of the locations in the tour… Continue reading
“This Is Not the Middle East” Leonard Knott Observing that “this is not the Middle East,” Zygmund and Judith Pach of 1260 Tapley ¼ Line, RR1 Fraserville made an impassioned presentation to the Cavan Monaghan Township Council on September 14th to, “Amend the current firearms bylaw to severely restrict target… Continue reading
Ron Awde From September 9th through the 12th, the Environmental Review Tribunal heard the case against the construction of five additional industrial wind turbines on the Oak Ridges Moraine to the west of Pontypool. The Appellant (SLWT Opposition Corp.) presented arguments against the destruction of existing woodland habitat, in order… Continue reading
