Editor: I could feel the floor shaking when I read Helen Blackburn’s account of Leonard Hall in the March 3 edition of The Creemore Echo. Maybe Gerry Blackburn was shaking so hard before and [...]
Editor: For two Saturdays in February, Susan and I gave up self-inflicted torture sessions of watching the Toronto Maple Leafs lose to NHL powerhouse teams. Instead, after reading an [...]
Editor: In a pre-COVID study, the CMHC (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation) found that short- term rentals (STRs), such as AirBnB and VRBO, have disrupted housing markets across Canada, as [...]
Editor: It was interesting to see so much on local housing in last week’s Creemore Echo. It’s sad that this has become an issue. Yet Creemore is not idiosyncratic in the dynamic at play here. [...]
Editor: As a 15-year operator of a multi award winning tourism business in Clearview, I would like to provide some input on what is missing from Clearview Tourism Plan. (Re: “Something missing [...]
Editor: I would like to thank Helen Blackburn for her “Garden brings health and happiness” letter in the last week’s Echo. For those in the community who do not know Helen, she is well known for [...]
Editor: There are two questions that I cannot seem to get an answer for. 1. What was Ford’s reason for removing 7400 acres of Greenbelt protected land when there already existed many thousands of [...]
Editor: People don’t need me to tell them that inflation is a current problem and that buying food for the family takes a shocking amount of money. Here is a suggestion which will help a little [...]
Editor: Austerity is a set of political-economic policies that aim to reduce government budget deficits through spending cuts, tax increases, or a combination. As one of four attendees to the [...]
Editor: On Dec. 28, the Ontario Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks formally notified Clearview Township that Sideroad 26/27 (26/27) is now classified as a Schedule C Municipal Class [...]