We are a week away from a provincial election, an election that we weren't expecting until June of next year, however Premier Doug Ford opted to call an early election for the end of what has been a stormy February.
While many of us would have been quite happy to have left the next provincial election until next year, here...
Centreville Beach is a lovely, tranquil spot that many of us have enjoyed from time to time over the years. The small beach area is perfect to enjoy with a morning coffee, or on a hot summer afternoon with the kids. For many years most of us assumed that the property was owned by the municipality as there was...
Over the past few weeks we have all been bombarded with news story after news story focused on newly inaugurated President Donald Trump and his threats to impose hefty tariffs on Canadian goods. Because apparently Canada is a bad neighbour which takes advantage of the mighty USA. All I can say is poppycock.
I must give credit to President Trump,...
Meaford's council will be busy as we head into February. With a second attempt to develop a municipal budget for 2025 now underway, councillors will be busy scouring the new budget documents in hopes of finding opportunities for cost savings in order to shape a budget that will both meet the needs of the municipality and the pocketbooks of...
Like many, I was somewhat surprised upon hearing the news of the bold and brazen theft from Meaford's LCBO outlet earlier this month.
The fact that someone can walk into a tiny small town liquor store and walk out with $1,000 worth of product without paying for it, nor meeting any resistance, is shocking indeed, though not exactly uncommon in...
As I have written a time or two over the years, few things make me happier than seeing residents engage in the process of municipal governance, and that is exactly what we saw at Monday's council meeting, as residents attended council to make presentations and to participate in the public question portion of the meeting. The focus of concern...
Welcome back, dear readers, and Happy New Year. I hope that all had a joy-filled, relaxing holiday season. Here at The Independent, we are back to work after taking a semi-break over the past two weeks, and our first newspaper of 2025 has now been published.
So a new year begins, often a time of resolutions and goal setting for...
It has been a long year, and after this week's newspaper hits newsstands, the Meaford Independent team is taking its annual break.
For a small rural community newspaper, opportunities to take a break are few, so for the past decade the Meaford Independent team has taken advantage of the late December holiday season to shut down for two weeks to...
On Monday, council held their final regular meeting of 2024, and while the delayed budget process for 2025 might be the top issue currently occupying the minds of council and ratepayers, one of the major issues facing council in the years to come will be the cost of water and wastewater services, which are forecast to increase significantly over...
There was no easing into winter weather this year, as the significantly milder than typical autumn that we had been experiencing allowed us to head outdoors wearing little more than a lightweight windbreaker all the way until the very end of November. And then winter weather was thrust upon us over the weekend with a significant amount of snowfall,...
