Tag: Bruce County

Bruce County its offering $4,000 bursaries to eligible, first-year early childhood education students attending Fanshawe or Georgian colleges. “The key objectives of this partnership are to sustain, enhance, grow, and attract an increasingly diverse early childhood education workforce,” Tina Metcalfe, Bruce County’s manager of children’s services, is quoted saying in a news release. “This bursary […]

Work to replace a nearly 87-year-old bridge in Paisley begins Monday. The Teeswater River Bridge Replacement project on Bruce Road 3 in Paisley will begin Monday with the construction of a temporary bridge over the Teeswater River to connect Goldie Street with Church Street and serve as a connecting detour for motorists and pedestrians. The […]

Bruce County’s first of 13 household hazardous waste drop-off days is May 7 in Southampton. People are encouraged to drop off materials including paints, stains, used oil, aerosols, batteries, antifreeze, oil filters, solvents, household cleaners, fluorescent lights, fertilizers, fuel, pharmaceuticals, fire extinguishers, pesticides and pool chemicals. See www.brucecounty.on.ca/hazardouswaste for a full list of materials eligible […]

A former chief administrative officer for the City of Guelph and Town of Minto has been appointed to the role of CAO for Bruce County effective April 18, the county announced Monday. Derrick Thomson comes to the county with more than 30 years of experience in “community-building, change management, budget administration, strategic planning and innovation,” […]

A Bruce County Public Library bookmobile should be rolling down county roads again soon. Bookmobiles are an old idea which some libraries are using to increase access to library materials and services. There used to be a Bruce County library bookmobile into at least the 1950s. The new one will be a modern version, serving […]

Bruce County Warden Janice Jackson said in a statement Friday the county agrees it made mistakes, after a court found the county breached terms of a bequest by purchasing a former rectory property in Southampton. She said the county purchased the property “to expand the archival services of the museum. Our goal has always been […]

Bruce County breached terms of the Krug trust by improperly using its funds to buy a former Anglican rectory in Southampton, for purposes other than solely for a new county archives building, a judge has found. Superior Court Justice G. D. Lemon’s Jan. 31 decision also said the county failed to provide “proper and transparent […]