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Letters | Mar 12

Reader questions motive of township’s marina purchase

On Thursday, March 4, at 7 p.m. we attended a very public and “open” meeting at the Foley Activity Centre  for the purpose of numerous concerns and questions to be addressed  concerning the sale of Holiday Cove Marina to the Township of The Archipelago.  The invitation stated, and I...

Letters | Mar 12

Questioning merits of mail-in voting

Re: McKellar council mail-in vote
The McKellar council has decided to again bring a motion at the next council meeting regarding the mail-in vote. This method of voting was defeated earlier this year. I am sure that the council had a lot of pressure to repeal that motion by the cottage...

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Letters | Mar 11

Kearney deserves better than mail-in vote decision

To the Editor:

In a 5-2 vote, with councillors Tomlinson and Wadsworth voting for the people, Kearney Council voted to rescind the mail-in–vote for the 2010 elections.

Just when most municipalities are trying to get a larger percentage of the population to vote, the Kearney...

Letters | Mar 11

Learning fathers' history makes reader weep

To the Editor:


Re: ‘Are you the descendant of a Home Child?’ Almaguin News, Feb. 25.

It was only on discovering that my late father Robert McNay, a resident in Armour Township and a former municipal clerk in Burk’s Falls, was a British Home Child (BHC), that I...

Letters | Mar 11

Waste is crippling local health services

To the Editor:


Many years ago “assisted housing” in Ontario was run by Ontario Housing Corp. and was directly responsible to the Ministry of Housing. Housing was and always will be a touchy subject and the government did not like answering all the questions in the house, as most...

Letters | Mar 10

Amalgamation bad for permanent residents

There have been many letters on the merits of amalgamation and how it would cure the ills of the area. However, none of the pro-amalgamation writers seem to be looking past their interests, which always seem to require immediate priority. Did any writers of the pro-amalgamation letters question in...

Letters | Mar 10

Reader questions Conservative promises

Here we go again.
We have a solid budget where no one suffers and the deficit will almost disappear in five years. Congratulations to the Conservative party. The same party that passed legislation to have elections every four years, then called the last election more than a year earlier, hoping...

Letters | Mar 10

Bring high-speed Internet to rural Ontario, reader

For over a decade now, I have bored my friends and family to death with frequent complaints about the lack of availability of high-speed Internet where we live, that being Melissa, Ont.
During this period, many exciting new technological developments have occurred, both on the consumer end as...

Letters | Mar 10

Friends of Norway Point seek mayor's apology

Friends of Norway Point Park have asked, on Feb. 8, for a written public apology from Lake of Bays mayor Janet Peake and Mike Wilmon, bylaw enforcement officer, and we have not received that apology to date.

Firstly, in the Feb. 3 Huntsville Forester article by Pamela Steel entitled...

Letters | Mar 10

Latest federal budget is more of the same story from the Conservatives

Here we go again.

We have a solid budget where no one suffers and the deficit will almost disappear in five years.

Congratulations to the Conservative party.

The same party that passed legislation to have elections every four years, then called the last election...

Letters | Mar 10

Town needs more staff like Terziano

Editor’s note: This is a copy of a letter that was forwarded to the Town of Huntsville.

 I have known Karin Terziano both in a volunteer and professional capacity over the last 25 years.

She was my son’s first hockey coach when we moved from Toronto and she...

Letters | Mar 10

‘Sons’ in Canada’s national anthem has never meant ‘daughters,’ says reader

Dear Huntsville Canadians:

As a Canadian girl, woman, wife, mother and grandmother I am completely and totally in support of making changes to the words of our national anthem to include all our daughters, our amazing female athletes, and needless to say, all the great human beings like...

Letters | Mar 04
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Baby boomers just tried to pave way for next generation

To the Editor:

I take umbrage to Mark Mike’s column concerning the baby boomers (Almaguin News, Feb. 25, “The Greediest Generation: Baby boomers and their public debt”). I definitely do not believe that the majority of us are to blame for the public debt that now surrounds us.

Letters | Mar 03
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Town should have a little class: reader

Once again another town employee has been terminated.

After 23 years Karin Terziano joins former employees who did not seem to fit into the plans our mayor has for Huntsville.

As in previous firings, Karin will be offered a package and we the taxpayers will pick up the...

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