Tag: Municipal election
Bluewater school board fills vacant trustee position
The Bluewater District School Board has appointed Wayne Peeters to a vacant trustee position. Peeters was sworn in as trustee for the Southgate and Grey Highlands at a special meeting of the board on Tuesday, taking over the seat previously held by Janice Kaikkonen. In February the board declared the seat vacant due to absences. […]
If trustees are no longer in charge of the Thames Valley school board, who is?
Ontario education minister Paul Calandra has put the Thames Valley District school board – home to 84,000 students – under Queen’s Park supervision following a controversial three-day Toronto retreat by top officials last summer that cost $38,000. Investigators, auditing the board’s books, found a lack of financial oversight in the budgeting process led to a […]
Grey County proposing road exchanges with lower tiers
Grey County plans to go to the public with a proposal to transfer several county roads running through settlement areas to the lower tiers, along with a handful of exchanges of rural roads between the county and its municipalities. During its committee of the whole meeting on Thursday, county council gave approval in principle to […]
Woodstock voters to elect deputy mayor after council regig
Woodstock residents will have a chance to choose a deputy mayor after the city’s politicians agreed to add the position to council.
London councillor takes leave to run for PCs in London North Centre
As Ontario’s election campaign kicked off Wednesday, a London city councillor announced he’s taking a leave of absence to run for a seat at Queen’s Park. Reporter Jack Moulton goes over the customs and rules in vying for different elected offices. WHO’S TAKING A LEAVE? Ward 5 Coun. Jerry Pribil announced Wednesday he’s taking an […]