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Staff - October 24, 2024. Editorial. GBPH’s Report on Food Affordability Highlights What Many Already Know. Stephen Vance, Editor - October 24, 2024. Community News. Brightshores Health System Brought Awareness to National Disability Employment Awareness Month. Staff - October 23, 2024. Crimes & Misdemeanors.
News - The Meaford Independent
Staff - October 28, 2024. The Ontario government is investing $15,274,632 to help renew and rehabilitate critical infrastructure in Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound. The funding will be delivered in 2025 through the Ontario Community Infrastructure Fund (OCIF) and is part of the government’s $190 billion capital plan to build and expand more homes ...
Obituaries - The Meaford Independent
Obituary: Zwering-Button, Bonnie. September 20, 2024. Bonnie Zwering-Button passed away peacefully with her partner of 32 years, Jackie P. Curtis, and family by her side at the age of 61, on September 13, 2024, at Brightshores Hospital in Meaford. Bonnie Zwering was born in Sarnia, Ontario, on September 30, 1962, along with her twin sister ...
Community News - The Meaford Independent
Staff - November 4, 2024. Grey Bruce Public Health has issued its 24th Opioid Alert of 2024 after receiving notification of a suspected fatal opioid-related poisoning. The suspected overdose occurred in Owen Sound on Monday, October 28. Fentanyl is the substance believed to be responsible for the overdose. “On behalf of Grey Bruce Public ...
Editorial - The Meaford Independent
Stephen Vance, Editor - August 1, 2024. If you have been on local social media pages in recent months, you are no doubt aware of the spike in property crimes that has been experienced in the Municipality of Meaford, particularly since the summer weather arrived. Among the most reported items stolen from residential properties in recent months ...
Municipal Budget Season Has Begun | The Meaford Independent
Jan 18, 2024 · True, the Blue Mountains managed to reduce their required increase from 9.58 percent to just 2.5 percent, but as was noted during council’s budget discussions on Monday, they did so using one-time funding to balance their budget, a practice that is not recommended.
Council Will Soon Approve a ‘Good News’ Budget
Updated: February 15, 2024. By Stephen Vance, Editor. Meaford’s municipal budgets for 2024 will soon be approved, and this year residents of the Municipality of Meaford will see one of the lowest tax rate increases in all of Grey County. Described from the outset as a ‘lean’ budget, barring any last minute changes prior to final council ...
It’s Time For a Break - The Meaford Independent
Dec 16, 2021 · By Stephen Vance, Editor. It has been a long year, a long two years in fact, and with 2021 winding down, it is time for this scribe, and our Meaford Independent team, to take a little break. On Monday the final council meeting of the year was held at Meaford Hall, an important meeting to close out the year as the draft budgets for 2022 were ...
After Eight Years, Bridges 21 & 22 to be Replaced and Reopened
March 6, 2024. Updated: March 6, 2024. By Stephen Vance. Eight years after their closure, two small boundary road bridges located on the Holland-Sydenham Town Line between Grey Road 29 and the 2nd Concession South have moved closer to being replaced, and an important route for area farmers reopened. During their February 26 meeting, Meaford ...
Mural Mosaic Unveiled at Harbour | The Meaford Independent
October 21, 2024. Updated: October 21, 2024. By Stephen Vance. Dozens of community members gathered at Meaford’s harbour on Sunday, October 20, for the unveiling of the Canada Connects Family National Mural Mosaic, a part of Mural Mosaic’s Global Roots Project. The mural, which is located at the intersection of Nelson and Bayfield Streets ...