The Beautiful Joe Heritage Society has been actively fundraising for a pedestrian bridge to make Beautiful Joe Park accessible for all to enjoy.

Canada is hosting the 2025 Invictus Games from February 8 - 16 in Vancouver and Whistler, British Columbia. For the first time the games with be a hybrid of winter and summer sports featuring Alpine Skiing, Snowboarding, Nordic Skiing, Biathlon, Skeleton, and Wheelchair curling, along with indoor rowing, sitting volleyball, swimming, wheelchair rugby and basketball.

Wally left us suddenly on the morning of January 24, 2025, in his 73rd year. He was the beloved husband of Nancy for almost 51 years. Predeceased by his parents Wallace and Marion Ward, and by his sister Shirley Anne.

Jan 11, 2024 · The shadows following Meaford’s council into the new year include the proposed pumped storage facility, which has cast a shadow on this municipality for the past four years, a continued wave of new development proposals, and the reality that there are never enough resources to meet everyone’s needs and wants.

Jan 9, 2025 · Welcome back, dear readers, and Happy New Year. I hope that all had a joy-filled, relaxing holiday season. Here at The Independent, we are back to work after taking a semi-break over the past two weeks, and our first newspaper of 2025 has now been published. So a new year begins, often a time of ...

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Nov 7, 2024 · Among those 49 ‘elective services’ is policing, which, at a cost of more than $2.5 million, would add 14.48 percent to the required levy in 2025 that is not currently included in the core budget, and would add to the required rate increase for property owners next year.

Dec 11, 2024 · When the first draft of the 2025 municipal budget was presented to council on November 4, council had expected to have approved the 2025 budgets during their December 9 meeting.

Nov 28, 2024 · As I mentioned in last week’s editorial, I had nearly completely written an editorial for this week, chronicling my months’ long quest to obtain a public document from the municipality, that document being the municipal hiring policy.

Nov 6, 2024 · Staff’s November 4 report to council suggested that the implementation of a short-term accommodations bylaw and regulatory framework would be costly, with staff estimating that such a program would cost Meaford ratepayers roughly $500,000 per year.