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Aurora signs off on Highland Gate redevelopment settlement

Council endorsed a settlement mediated by the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) on the redevelopment of the former Highland Gate golf course in a 6 – 3 vote on Wednesday night. The decision came after lengthy closed door talks with Councillors Wendy Gaertner, Tom Mrakas and Jeff Thom voting against the deal.

Welcoming Arms volunteers mark first decade of service

It’s probably an anniversary they’d have sooner not reached, but Welcoming Arms marked its first decade of helping disadvantaged Aurora residents last week with a salute to the volunteers that make everything happen.

Progressive Conservative platform should be led by grassroots: Hogg

Ontarians might not have to go back to the Provincial Polls until the summer of 2018, but the race to represent the Progressive Conservative party in Newmarket-Aurora heated up last week.

PC nomination candidate Di Muccio encouraged by new party leadership

Only two years may have passed, but even a week is a long time in politics – and in just that time, former Newmarket councillor Maddie di Muccio is seeing significant change in the party she hopes to represent. Ms. di Muccio, who ...

Library needs to “rethink” mission, says cardholder

(Re: Ontario Public Library Week 2016 and the APL) As Ontario Public Library Week comes to a close, the role that libraries play in a ...

FRONT PORCH PERSPECTIVE: Items in the recent news

By Stephen Somerville As you know, I mostly write about local issues; be it politics, public affairs or whatever I find particular interesting or intriguing. ...

BROCK’S BANTER: Lèse-majesté: American Style

By Brock Weir Once upon time, not so long ago, in a community not so far away, there lived a councillor and a reporter. This ...

VIEW FROM QUEEN’S PARK: Housing in York Region

By Chris Ballard, MPP Newmarket-Aurora I was honoured to make an affordable housing announcement recently as the Minister of Housing and the Minister Responsible for ...