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October 31, 2007
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Getting spooky at the library
Sometimes, the library can be a scary place. That was never more evident than on Saturday. Several children braved the creepy costumes of staff and the dark lighting at the Innisfil Public Library's Churchill and Alcona branches, during annual Spookfest celebrations. More...
Road repairs coming

Nearly $5.2 million in road repairs were approved by Innisfil council last week. In total, funding for 21 projects was passed, as part of the town's 2008 Roads and Related Infrastructure capital budget. Construction for the South Innisfil Drain was given $3 million in funding, while Gilford's Eve... More...

Capital budget takes shape

From computers and walkways to vehicles and a new police station, over $15 million in projects are one step away from becoming reality. An Innisfil committee passed the town's 2008 capital budget, which would allocate over $15. More...

 News
•Library closer to construction
Cookstown residents are one step closer to getting their new library and community centre. An Innisfil capital budget committee recommended about $1.5 million in new funding for the complex, which is scheduled to be built on the current Cookstown Fairgrounds site near Highway 89, during a meeting... More...
•Fundraiser for the dogs
•County sends ambulance up north
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 Editorial
•New library necessary for Cookstown
Innisfil council needs to push ahead and grant the people of Cookstown their library and community centre. Last week, a town committee recommended almost $1.5 million in funding for the proposed Cookstown library and community centre. More...
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 Letters
•Time for Barrie to play Simcoe County's game
The boundary and servicing dispute between Barrie and Innisfil has dragged on long enough that our neighbours are rightly starting to voice their concern. More...
•Seniors are being taken to the cleaners
•Garbage gnomes are raising town taxes
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 Business & Real Estate
•Living the Light Up Night life
Laurie Munroe and her colleagues will be getting lit up Nov. 9. But the Cookstown business owner doesn't mind, as long as it draws a crowd. Munroe's Will Silk's General Store, along with many other Cookstown businesses will stay open late that evening, to celebrate the village's annual Light Up ... More...
•Heritage committee member appointed
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 Community
•Remembrance Day and other Legion news
Attention everyone: I am back to my old tricks with dates. Here are the real dates. Maritime Dinner: Friday Nov. 2, Veterans Dinner Sunday December 2. Remembrance Day: We started our Poppy Campaign Oct. 26 with, I am happy to say, great success. Maggie and I went out Saturday and the response wa... More...
•Fall deer hunt begins
•Nantyr families go Japanese for a week
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 Churchill News
•Some Halloween tidbits for Churchill residents
Did you know Halloween is the second most commercially successful holiday, with Christmas being the first? People spend as much as over $2.5 billion during Halloween on candies, costumes, decorations and parties; the ancient Celts thought that spirits and ghosts roamed the countryside on Halloween... More...
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 South Simcoe Police
•Police News
Woman charged under new racing legislation A 45-year-old Barrie woman was arrested after allegedly driving at nearly double the posted speed limit. Recently, Nottawasaga OPP officers conducted radar surveillance along the 5th Concession of Essa Township. More...
•Drugs and mischief guilty pleas in Bradford court
•Equipment taken from 7th Line construction site
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 Sports & Leisure
•Hawker eyeing figure skating gold
Lesley Hawker Doherty, last year's bronze medal winner, will represent Canada at the International Figure Skating Championships, held in Quebec City on Nov. 2 and 3 (please check your TV guide for the corret time and channel). More...
•Winterhawks battle through weekend campaign
•Full Story
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 Out and About
•Cinderella trying on Cookstown theatre's magic glass slipper
The Onstage Performance Group, which had staged several productions in Barrie at the Park Place Theatre, has moved its latest production of Cinderella to the South Simcoe Theatre in Cookstown, to take advantage of the larger space and ambiance of the 100- year-old historical building. More...
•Royal Winter Fair Horse Show starts Friday
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 Health & Lifestyle
•Cookstown's cancer fight contribution
Many of Shawna McLachlan's customers have fought breast cancer. It's a disease that affects thousands of people across the region each year, and patrons of McLachlan's Cookstown floral design shop are no different. That's one of the reasons she, along with the owners of three other Cookstown bus... More...
•November spaghetti supper fit for a king
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 Home & Garden
•The Gardener's Corner
Winter for a garden is just another season that it passes through; it is still alive with the microbial activity of healthy soil that has had compost, manure and leaves added in the fall and many animals and birds stay busy foraging for seeds and other forms of food. More...
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 Schools
•Local students hear Jean Vanier speak
Eighty-one students from the Simcoe Muskoka Catholic District School Board's nine high schools met Jean Vanier at a special youth forum in Toronto last week. More...
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