Our Town and Its Business

So, Richard Illingworth is gone and his space will not be filled. He was a remnant of a generation that no longer exists. He was what his li...

I've written half a dozen Blogs since and assigned them to the draft file. They will not see the light of day until I deal with t h...

Oftentimes I know if I linger longer I will cease to be civil. I usually manage to stay until the hour of adjournment. If town business is b...

The Mayor proclaimed "most of Council" present. The missing one? C'etais moi. I chose not to be there. I was elected to Cou...

The computer age will make a huge difference. Politicians will no longer be able to mislead people with inaccurate statements. Fact-checking...

There were thirty on the Agenda of Tuesday's General Committee Meeting of Council. Item 7 was in response to a request from Councillor...

A letter appeared taking the Town of Newmarket to task for having no evening recreation programs for children. The Town of Aurora on the oth...

I heard that phrase years ago from the altar at a Sunday Mass. The sermon is a blank. It was undoubtedly a warning about the dangers of...

Tuesday would have been a good night for the Integrity Commissioner to attend a council meeting. At the end of our education workshop in the...

The Community Centre has a roof span equal to the ice surface plus a bank of seven rows of seats on all sides. The roof is arched. Under th...

A few issues have jumped out at people during the budget deliberations. One was the proposed new baseball field, another an additional lib...

Conflict of Interest legislation is not straightforward . Only a councillor can decide whether or where there is personal conflict. If a...

The building is commercial on the first floor, parking on a second and condos above. It's a beautiful building and the fifth time a desi...

The following memo explains better than I can why a librarian needs to be added this year. Page 1 Page 2 Council has authority to cut the...

It's one o'clock .in the morning. I came home from the Town Hall at eleven-thirty p.m. I had been there since 6 pm.The first hour w...

I have no filing system. Every time I need something I have to turn over a pile of pages one by one. I was looking this morning for stuff ...

Thank You Robert the Bruce. I intended to acknowledge a flurry of messages from friends and family that schools do have libraries. Your i...

A reader recently noted the increase in number of comments and, in contrast to the Aurora Citizen" which is going downhill" they a...

The Library Board came to Council's budget meeting on Saturday.Their budget includes an increase for an additional librarian for child...

Anonymous said... Rumors are rumors and as such they are always orphans. That is why I made it clear that it was a rumor. But you're ri...