Our Town and Its Business

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...

Another odd thing happened at Council recently. Councillor Gaertner applied for and received $1 thousand grant for the Hot Spot Club. The ...

The purpose of this Blog is to informally inform. A daily journal would be a lugubrious read. I don't keep a checklist. of events. Most ...

The Document on file at the court is Application for Judicial Review 499-07 . The case will be heard next month at the Divisional Court by O...

Anonymous said: If this can be verified - that Councillor MacEachern sent information to the lawyers of people who had a beef with the Town ...

I referred in Bits and Pieces to a Councillor in Vaughan having declared a conflict of interest and the report that it may cost the municip...

On Monday, Family Day, at the Town's Arctic Adventure , among other exciting and fun events, a Chili Cook Off will be held in the Tow...

The City of Oakville had a headline in the Star for putting Council Meetings online. I understood it was included in our budget last year. ...

The Blog has so much flexibility I thought I could post and go back in repeatedly to make little changes. Just keep fixing it up until ...

A respondent thinks that for someone who "loves the old days"I seem to have a" bug-bear about Heritage." You are partly ...

Let me count the ways. Council met in a handsome large room at the back of a former bank building in the middle of the main block on the eas...

….a rotting structure. The Petch House, has been perched on cement blocks on the east side of Leslie just south of Wellington for five years...