Category Archives: Local News

Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop is looking for a few good men and women. He wants candidates for the Ontario Volunteer Service Awards and encourages people in the riding to nominate someone who has d...

It's a brand new year and new councils and boards are looking forward to working together in Orillia. On behalf of the new City of Orillia Council Mayor Angelo Orsi says they're putting the past behin...

Its an annual event that has gone on for 11 years. Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop is holding his annual New Years Levee Sunday January 9th. It will run from 1 until 4 tomorrow afternoon at the Royal...

The Dean of Community Studies, at the Orillia Campus of Georgian College Mary O Farrell-Bowers, will be the guest speaker at the January meeting of the Orillia Business Womens Association. OFarrell-Bo...

The new year brings news that two new family physicians will be hanging out their shingle in the community by the summer. Pat Thor the Project Coordinator for the Orillia and area Physician Recruitmen...

Orillia's Richard Smith has won a trip is to Mexico -- just for taking the time to shop locally. In a fun new initiative, the Downtown Orillia Management Board gave away a trip for two to the Mayan Ri...

People in the Orillia and Midland areas will get a chance to put in their two cents worth dealing with the upcoming Federal Budget. Bruce Stanton, M.P. for Simcoe North says there will be two separate...

Priorities are being set by the new City Council of Orillia, and they're not sure if scooping up new property should be at the top of their list. Up for grabs is the Huronia Regional Centre property, ...

The Simcoe County District School Board has made a major effort in reducing vandalism as its schools. The board has managed to reduce by a quarter of a million dollars the damage done by vandals at it...

When Orillia City Council comes back to meet for the first time of this new year, Councillor Andrew Hill from Ward 4 wants them to address the current bylaw dealing with plastic bags. Hill wants counc...