Bridge's character to be kept

Simcoe County says it will bridge the gap between the old and the new when they make public designs for the new Collingwood Street bridge next spring. Last month, Clearview Township accepted a motion to rebuild the Collingwood Street bridge, which spans the Mad River...

Viewscape protected

Clearview Council has voted to protect one of the area’s impressive views from the sight of wind turbines before it’s too late. At the Monday, October 21 Council meeting, Councillors decided to adopt a heritage conservation project that will preserve the viewscape...

Medical marijuana history

A Clearview company has become the first in Canada to receive Health Canada’s new licence to grow marijuana commercially for medical use. The new licence will allow Peace Naturals Project Inc. to supply about 1,000 clients. It will make its first shipment of medical...

Long-overdue award

When David Allister MacDonald (pictured above, left) opened his mail last month at home in Stayner, he got a start. There, among the bills and notices was a long-overdue award for service in World War II: a Bomber Command Clasp. “I was surprised,” said MacDonald, who...

Remembrance Day

These days, it can be hard for veteran Warren Gale to remember what it was like to land on Juno Beach in Normandy a few days after D-Day in June 1944. Sometimes it can be difficult to separate his own memories from images he has seen on television since then. “It was...

Peace at school

At Hummingbird Montessori School in Creemore, students practise peace every day. The goal, school owner Sherri Jackson (pictured above, left) says, it to create peaceful citizens through Montessori education. Montessori is an educational approach developed by a...