By Stephen Vance, Editor
I received an email late last week from a reader who had plenty of nasty things to say about our members of council and our CAO.As you can imagine, I get plenty of these messages from Meaford residents who are angry about everything from stray cats, to pot-holes, to concerns about municipal expenditures.
This particular email was...
By Stephen Vance, Editor
I can't say that I was overly surprised as I watched Meaford's council decide to do away with a bylaw that has been on the books since 2007 which requires the municipality to appoint an integrity commissioner to investigate complaints lodged against members of council.
After all, we haven't had an integrity commissioner in more than three...
By Stephen Vance, Editor
The beach bags have been traded in for backpacks as the children head back to school this week after a summer filled with fun and freedom.
This is a week that is always filled with mixed emotions for both parents and students.
While some students will be less than thrilled to shift from leisurely days of skateboarding or...
By Stephen Vance, Editor
We've taken some heat recently at The Meaford Independent for our series of articles profiling municipal employees.
“What's with the apologist crap in The Independent?” one reader wrote in a message in reference to a profile of Meaford Treasurer David Kennedy.
Some others have written to inform us that our municipal staff are nothing but a bunch of...
By Stephen Vance, Editor
They promised a Canada Day bash to remember, and the collection of community groups who worked tirelessly to put it all together certainly delivered.
Residents and tourists gathered in large numbers in the heart of urban Meaford from the moment that the pancakes hit the grill early in the morning, until the last firework exploded over the...
By Stephen Vance, Editor
As frustrating and unnecessary as it may seem, we really do have to question everything we see and hear. It shouldn't have to be that way, but it is.
When I was much younger I accepted that most people are honest, and I didn't spend a whole lot of time questioning information that was presented to me....
By Stephen Vance, Editor
Last week our Member of Provincial Parliament, Bill Murdoch, bid farewell to Queen's Park after having served in the legislature for nearly 21 years.
It is not often that an MPP from a rural riding like ours is able to generate the kind of profile that Murdoch has.
Some call him a maverick, others call him a rabble-rouser,...
By Stephen Vance, Editor
On behalf of myself and TMI Publisher Susanne Wussow, I would like to thank the more than 70 people who turned out on Saturday June 4 to help The Meaford Independent celebrate the opening of our new office at the corner of Sykes and Boucher Streets in Meaford.
The fantastic turnout was a humbling show of support...
By Stephen Vance, Editor
I love the Meaford Museum. For a community of our size to have such a fantastic facility on our beautiful waterfront for residents and tourists to visit is a wonderful thing. I take my children to the museum a few times each year and they are always asking to go back.
Museums are important to any community....
By Stephen Vance, Editor
I've been so conflicted over the last week not knowing whether I should be preparing for the first long weekend of the warm season or for the end of the world. Not that my packing list would have been much different for either.
Even though my fate according to those that believe such things would have been...
