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 Tax bill cometh as levy bylaw approvedAll factors necessary to calculate 2008 property tax bills have been entered into the equation and the answer is $16,365,882 for local purposes.Click here for story Also ...Simcoe County's first ever Transportation Master Plan recommends lobbying for GO Transit to extend services into New Tecumseth, and more emphasis on connected trail networks. Additionally, it seeks to upload the 5th Line of New Tecumseth from Cty Rd 10 thru Bradford West Gwillimbury to Hwy 400.PMO, Ontario among nominees for CAJ Secrecy AwardPress Release - Prime Minister Stephen Harper's office leads the list of nominees for this year's Code of Silence Award, to be handed out by the Canadian Association of Journalists later this month.Click here for story 
Photo by Megan
Newcombe
Underserviced designation renewal motion tweakedPosted May 13
Councillors modified a motion from last week supporting Stevenson Memorial
Hospital's medically underserviced area request to the Ministry of Health
by including a reference to Beeton "currently without a family doctor."
Town sticks with County growth forecast, Belterra factored inPosted May 13New Tecumseth will abandon for now its preferred local planning horizon
that aimed for a population of 60,000 by 2031 choosing instead to endorse
Simcoe County's growth management target of 49,000 with the option to revise
that number when it's reviewed in five years.
New fire truck for BeetonPosted May 13The Town will debenture $427,500 to purchase a new pumper rescue truck for Station 2 Beeton, sole sourcing it from ResQTech Systems Inc.  Free Press
Online photo by Tony Veltri
Tottenham youth total's friend's car, facing multiple chargesPosted May 12Here's one straight from the real life blooper reel that doesn't have a
funny ending or does the business of friendship any favours.
Movement up in the firefighting chain of commandPosted May 12Seven firefighters have been promoted within the ranks of the New Tecumseth
Fire Service.
RBC to push forward with new bank plan on King StreetPosted May 9
As reported here last October, RBC is seeking to open its first bank branch
in Alliston and that proposal will be the subject of a public meeting Wednesday
night.
In other business news, SmartCentres is working on a site plan deal with the Town and aiming for a fall construction start for its 170,000 sq. ft. anchor, Wal-Mart, which is pushing back its OMB approved opening date from January 2009, to the spring of 2009. The Nottawasaga Foundation keeps on giving to Stevenson Memorial Hospital, this time it's a $120,000 donation to support the dialysis program. This follow's last week's pledge by the Biffis family's foundation of $160,000 to the re-established birthing unit. |
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