Impact Study hits Tiny Residents hard! By John Grant – Addison Beach Predicted results became fact as the Impact Study for Simcoe County’s Market Value Reassessment (1992 base) was released August 15th, 1995. Residential property owners learned that their taxes would skyrocket under the proposed system, if adopted, while farms, [more]
Disgusting Behavior by TRWT Wins No Friends Why do some think that rude and crude behaviour in place of civility is the way to dissuade or persuade others to a specific point of view. The fact is such actions simply insult the intelligence of all decent and reasonable people. A [more]
Council Snubbed Perkinsfield Parks and Recreation Committee held a dance under the “new roof” on Saturday, August 12, 1995 to celebrate the opening. In a letter to one of the local media, Gail Barrie complained: “not one member of council made an appearance”. She neglected to tell you why. The [more]
Council in Action [By various Federation members] Council meets on the 2nd and last Mondays of each month at 7:00 p.m. to deal with Regular Council business. Council meets as Planning Board on the 3rd Monday of each month to deal with planning matters. Council meets as Committee of the [more]
Blair Hampton Estates – a lengthy OMB appeal expected By Patricia O’Driscoll The last undeveloped stretch of shoreline in Tiny Township lies along the northwestern shore of Tiny, in Concessions 20W and 21W. Over the last 4 years, Blair Hampton Estates has presented a development proposal to Tiny Council and [more]
150 ACRE PURCHASE PLANNED FOR INDUSTRIAL/COMMERCIAL USE By Patricia O’Driscoll As a first step in fulfilling its election promise to reestablish Tiny’s economic growth and commercial tax base, lost in the re-structuring fiasco by the previous Hastings-led Council, the incumbent Council acted quickly to secure ownership of a significant parcel [more]
Your Council At Work By Frank Hughes and Patricia O’Driscoll Council meets on the second and last Mondays of each month at 7:00 p.m. at the municipal offices on the Balm Beach Road, Perkinsfield, to deal with regular Council business. All residents are encouraged to attend, be part of the [more]
Trickle Down . . . . . or Down Loading? By Paul Masterson No matter what you call it, Municipal governments that are at the end of the transfer payment “buck passing” will be receiving less assistance from senior governments. As Tiny’s Mayor Lancia said: “It’s not that the senior [more]
Tiny Water Systems Meet Provincial Guidelines By Patricia O’Driscoll There are 17 Municipally operated water systems within the Township of Tiny, the largest number in any municipality in Simcoe County. Nearly 3,000 lots are within the service areas of these water systems with approximately 1,700 units connected to the water [more]
Tiny Gets a Little Singed By Paul Masterson An 18 hectare (40 acre) area of Tiny’s lot 19/20, concession 21 was successfully treated to a prescribed burning in an April/May period this spring. Carried out by trained fire crews of the Ministry of Natural Resources (Midhurst), this proven silvicultural treatment [more]
The Federation of Tiny Township Shoreline Associations