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Editor: I am writing in response to Suzanne Wesetvik’s recent column which shared the idea of “co-voting” in order to consider the perspective and concerns of our youth within our voting choices. [...]

Editor: Hats off to the CLEAN group for their brilliant installation. What better way to illustrate the gravity of the plastic problem than to put it where we live. For those who were offended by [...]

Editor: With the federal election approaching, I write this letter not as a means of persuading people how to vote, but as reminder to think agriculture when at the polls. In the past year we [...]

Editor: Thank you for including Basil Guinane’s letter last week letting us know of his experience at the Collingwood Climate Strike which many Creemore and Clearview children and adults [...]

Plastics are the cornerstone of our way of life from the clothes we wear to our furniture, toys, cell phones, storage containers, wrapping, eyeglasses, medical devices and car parts. Of late [...]

Editor: Last Friday I attended the climate strike in Collingwood. I was impressed and moved to see a large number of students from CCI and other youth take part in this demonstration. They [...]

Home dedications are the frosting on the Habitat cake, so to speak. They are the sweet celebration of the community, volunteers, donors, sponsors’ contributions and welcome another Habitat [...]

Editor: Thank you to all of you at The Echo keeping this great little newspaper alive – all of us here are lucky to have such a rare community resource, a bona fide local paper. To wit, a [...]

Editor: Most of us are aware of the emotionally charged exchange between Walker Aggregates and residents bordering the quarry on Duntroon Road 91 concerning the expansion of the quarry. It wasn’t [...]

Editor: My name is Helen Prager (neé Carr) born in Glencairn in 1932, daughter of Billy (William) Carr, son of Percy Carr. (My father died of TB in 1937 but grew up on the 7th line of Tosorontio [...]