Author Archives: Bayshore News Team

Another 900 Ontario schools will offer full day kindergarten in 2012. The McGuinty government announced the full list of school's on Wednesday. The government estimates about 120 thousand will be in s...

The Highway 11 Laclie St exit ramp remians closed this morning. Orillia OPP say the ramp is closed for a criminal investigation there following an early morning chase. Reports say officers had been co...

Protests today at Lakehead University over proposed tuition hikes. The student union says next year's increase represents the fourth consecutive year the school has increased tuition by the maximum ra...

A 26 year old Severn Township man faces numerous charges today following an early morning police chase. The Laclie St ramp is now open again following the chase, which resulted in the male crashing in...

A few unexplained switches being reported from the City of Orillia offices today, Thursday March 3rd. A late afternoon announcement reported that Ian Brown, the cities Manager would no longer be worki...

Lakehead University received two business achievement awards from the Orillia District Chamber of Commerce at the Chambers annual awards event. The Orillia campus won the Green Award, for making a not...

Orillia Council is moving quickly to try and find an answer to just where the Orillia Farmers Market will be located. The Farmers Market Committee passed a motion not to move back to the new Library M...

The Simcoe Muskoka County District Health Unit is moving from its current home by Georgian Bay General Hospital to Midland Secondary School. They re-locate to the school on March 25, and the new locat...

Orillia Council were all ears this past week when a presentation was made about planting hundreds of sugar maple trees in the city and surrounding townships. The presentation was made by the Huronia W...

Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop has introduced a private members bill at the Legislature today, Wednesday March 2, to make it safer for tow truck operators to do their jobs by the side of busy highwa...