New Tecumseth Times

Bouncing Back can be just a phone call away, says Canadian Mental Health Association

By Brock Weir This Wednesday, January 30, thousands of people from across Canada will band together to help erase the stigma surrounding mental health on ...

Stacked Pancake House opens in Alliston with a warm winter welcome

By Wendy Gabrek pan·cake noun 1. a thin, flat cake of batter, usually fried and turned in a pan. Pancakes are usually eaten with syrup ...

“South of Hope” points to success at BVP

By Anne Ritchie The traumas faced by a blue collar amputee, a blind artist, and an immobilized hockey player become a valuable life lesson for ...

New Tecumseth opts in on retail cannabis sales

By Kira Wronska Dorward In the inaugural meeting of 2019, Council carried the motion to allow retail cannabis stores in New Tecumseth. It was a ...

Six-year-old gives back, asking for donations instead of gifts to help babies in hospital

Southlake Regional Health Centre Foundation kicked off the new year with a very special donation. On January 9, six-year-old Jacob dropped in to present a ...

Tottenham Food Bank benefits from Vince’s Community Product Initiative

By Brock Weir Our Town Food Bank will share in over $25,000 raised through 2018 as part of Vince’s Markets’ Community Product Initiative. Representatives from ...

Hallie is first baby of 2019 – three days after New Year

By Wendy Gabrek The first baby of 2019 came a little late, but was, for sure, worth the wait. Baby Hallie, born weighing 8 pounds ...

Lighting up the night sky in the New Year

The Rotary Club of Alliston, Firefighters with the Town of New Tecumseth and The Town of New Tecumseth invited residents of all ages to the ...

Budget talks begin with $81 tax increase for average homeowner

By Brock Weir Council is set to begin budget deliberations this Thursday with a starting point tax increase of 2.58 per cent on the municipal ...

Alliston Legion looking to raise $100K to offset roof repair costs

By Wendy Gabrek The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 171 Alliston needs to raise $100,000 to repair the roof of their building on Dufferin Street by spring 2019. ...

Stop a thief – go to jail

By Brian Lockhart Several years ago, someone I know was woken up at about 3 a.m., by the unmistakable sound of someone in his house ...

How do we boost productivity? Give workers a piece of the action

By Frank Stronach As the former CEO of Magna International, one of Canada’s largest manufacturing companies, my philosophy was always that employees don’t work for ...

Creativity around the house (or home)

By Brock Weir Spring is a time of renewal when it comes to our natural world, but most of us can agree that, as a ...

I’m the tax man

By Brian Lockhart “If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street, If you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat, If you get too ...

Local Community Hospital: A Lifeline for Families

By Kara Harris Row In the heart of our community stands a beacon of hope and healing: our local hospital. For many, it’s more than ...

Yesterdayland, Todayland, and Tomorrowland

By Brock Weir It’s often said that hindsight is 20/20, but sometimes the results can be unexpected. Having kids of one’s own, I hear, can ...

Lighten up!

By Brian Lockhart This is the new age of information, where the world news is brought to you almost as it happens. Unfortunately, not a ...

Is technology accelerating the great divide in income?

By Frank Stronach Back in the 1980s, when Artificial Intelligence (AI) was still the stuff of science fiction and computers and automation were changing the ...

Using what we have while we’ve got it

By Brock Weir It’s often said that you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone. That is indeed true, as anyone with a reasonable ...

Digital Hawaiian pizza

By Brian Lockhart Who doesn’t like pizza? It’s round, easily transported, and has the distinction of being probably the only hand-held food shaped like a ...

January 2019 Archive