Celebrating one victory and setting sights on another

This Sunday’s annual NDACT party at the Honeywood Arena is sure to have a celebratory tone, given the recent blockbuster news that the Highland Companies had sold the Melancthon land formerly slated for a mega quarry development to an investment company that...

Family Fun on Mill Street

The village was overrun by kids, parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles during last Saturday’s Creemore Children’s Festival. The event, headed up by volunteer Laurie Copeland, was a resounding success with Clearview Culture and Recreation Department’s Shane Sargant...
Mulmur faces development charge woes

Mulmur faces development charge woes

With $250,000 sitting in the recreation portion of the Development Charges accounts, Mulmur discussed their current quandary at Wednesday’s meeting. To spend the money means there will be little in the way of long-term savings toward major capital projects such as the...
Electoral Review Committee gets to work

Electoral Review Committee gets to work

Clearview Township’s Electoral Review Committee held its first meeting on Tuesday, outlining the four possible recommendations it could eventually make to Council: to reconfigure the municipality’s existing ward system, to decrease the number of wards, to maintain the...
Wind farm opponents ordered to pay costs

Wind farm opponents ordered to pay costs

The 21 neighbours of the proposed Fairview Wind Farm who unsuccessfully sued developer wpd Canada and the two Beattie families who would host the turbines have been ordered to pay legal costs of $107,370.78. The plaintiffs, who had been seeking more than $17 million...

The werewolves among us

A multi-generational pack of werewolves, led by the “Alpha of Creemore.” A fairy pond in the middle of town, home to a door to another realm. While these may not be features on your mental map of Creemore, they feature prominently, believe it or not, in The Trouble...