'Tales of the Penetanguishene Road' event shines light on local history

'Tales of the Penetanguishene Road' event shines light on local history

http://bit.ly/11v6Frn Barrie Examiner

Sounds interesting

Simcoe County OKs $403M budget for 2014

Simcoe County OKs $403M budget for 2014

http://bit.ly/18nNbag Barrie Examiner

Aprox 2% on the county portion of our cottage tax bills

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It could be much worse

The Trent-Severn Waterway may be open for business, but area boaters aren't sure how much it's going to be getting.

The Trent-Severn Waterway may be open for business, but area boaters aren't sure how much it's going to be getting.
http://bit.ly/1884UOr Barrie Examiner 


Effective this season, the waterway's 44 locks are opened two-and-a-half hours less each day.

Parks Canada, tasked with cutting $3 million from the waterway's budget, had originally proposed ending the season — which runs from Victoria Day to Thanksgiving long weekends — two weeks earlier and increasing both moorage and lockage fees, much to the outrage of recreational boaters, commercial operators and municipalities.

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Not a good thing. Between the low water levels for Lake Huron & Georgian Bay, and what the government is  doing to Trent-Severn, the fun is going out of boating.