Letters | Mar 11
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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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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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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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