Having Green Development Standards can help municipalities secure healthy, well-designed communities that have integrated greenspace and wildlife habitat, provide attractive pedestrian and cycle [...]
Editor: The traditional small town social life is alive and well in Creemore. Neighbours get together in common public spaces to meet, get to know each other, laugh, spread news, and make sure [...]
Editor: Re: Climbing access in ‘protection areas’ granted without explanation, The Creemore Echo, Friday, Feb. 23, page 6, and We should all be concerned about lack of transparency, process, The [...]
Dear Money Lady, I don’t have a question but rather a comment. I know you write about millennials a lot and I just wanted to add to that. We recently hired 12 new staff to our growing [...]
My husband and I recently had the time of our lives hiking the Simcoe County Forest Louden Tract adjacent to Airport Road. What made our hike so memorable was the discovery of multiple frozen [...]
Editor: The wall of shame that is being built in Creemore is nearly complete. We have an opportunity to poke some holes in it now but it will take some doing. In this town we talk to our friends, [...]
Editor: I was sad to read another anti- climbing piece in The Creemore Echo. I applaud the reopening of Ontario Parks for climbing and look forward to a better managed future where climbing is an [...]
To say that last week’s article about Devil’s Glen Provincial Park is anti rock climbing is reductive. The claim is an over simplification of a story that is more about a lack of transparency, [...]
Today we are thankful for the truck drivers who bring mail to Creemore and for the rural mail deliverers who brave storms, snowbanks and muddy roads to leave mail in our mailboxes. In the early [...]
Editor: The snow is snowing and the wind is blowing but even if it is, it is time to think about springtime and a garden. If you don’t have a vegetable garden this is my suggestion: start one [...]