Brett Glover
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1 week ago |
simcoe.com | Brett Glover
The first thing you’ll notice is how quiet it is. The City of Barrie introduced its first ever electric bus on Tuesday, by taking the mayor, city staff and several members of the media on a short jaunt. The electric vehicle — one of two in the city’s fleet — was whisper-quiet as it roved through the city on its inaugural run, the first trip in a 12-month pilot project to assess the viability of introducing more of these buses to the city’s transit system.
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1 week ago |
simcoe.com | Brett Glover
The upcoming federal election has some LGBTQ2S+ folks worried, especially after seeing a significant shift on trans rights south of the border. Canadians go to the polls April 28, after a campaign overrun by American politics, from tariffs to diversity, equality, and inclusion policy.
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2 weeks ago |
simcoe.com | Brett Glover
A recent ice storm that moved through Barrie, leaving damage and blackouts behind, couldn’t have come at a worse time for some downtown businesses or their employees. Among the many impacted by the recent ice storm was Kennedy’s Lakeside Grocery, a locally-owned business that’s only been in operation in downtown Barrie for five months. Shop owner Adam Kennedy says they were challenged even before the ice storm hit.
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3 weeks ago |
simcoe.com | Brett Glover
A south Barrie extension designed to ease traffic woes has encountered a speed bump as the city awaits someone with an extra $17 million to come along. In 2018, the city launched the Bryne Drive extension project, a two-phase initiative to connect an existing stretch of Bryne Drive off Mapleview Drive, up to Harvie Road/Big Bay Point Road and, eventually, all the way up to Essa Road. First half already complete The first phase, from Mapleview to Harvie, opened this past September.
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3 weeks ago |
simcoe.com | Brett Glover
Clean up continues across the land, following a damaging ice storm that left plenty of downed trees in its wake. But who is responsible for cleaning up all those branches? Depends on where they originated. Municipally-owned treesAccording to the City of Orillia, if a municipally-owned tree — one that’s growing on public property — falls onto private land, the property owner can call city hall’s municipal operations centre at 705-326-4585, and city staff will help co-ordinate cleanup.
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