New Tecumseth Times

Flu outbreak at SMH declared over

By Brian Lockhart In collaboration with the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit, Stevenson Memorial Hospital is announcing that the influenza outbreak on the hospital’s Medical ...

Building Up Simcoe County: Community blueprint for affordable housing, homelessness

By Brian Lockhart Simcoe County council has approved and released its new 10-year affordable housing and homelessness prevention strategy, titled “Building Up Simcoe County – ...

Don’t sweat the small stuff

By Brian Lockhart Years ago, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the Mormons, ran a series of public service-type commercials ...

Strategy to stay out of jail

By Gwynne Dyer Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu, has just asked the country’s president, Isaac Herzog, to “fully pardon” him of all three charges ...

Monthly Message: The price of convenience is too expensive for the environment

We pay more, think less, and live on auto-play. Convenience has become a way of life. From pre-cut vegetables to next-day delivery, society is creating ...

Simcoe County council approves over $1 billion budget for 2026

By Brian Lockhart Simcoe County council approved a $1.042 billion budget on Nov. 25, 2025. The budget was designed to maintain existing service levels while ...

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Don’t worry – it’s paid for

By Brian Lockhart Throughout history, Western societies have always understood that sometimes people experience hardships beyond their control. A person could become sick and unable ...

Town proposed massive growth

After reading last week’s proposed growth plan from our elected officials, I was left shaking my head at the proposal’s lunacy. I understand “some” growth ...

Speaking English badly

By Gwynne Dyer It is a matter of chronic surprise that politicians, otherwise well-trained in saying just the right thing for the audience they are ...

Rumours

By Brian Lockhart There was a time when the year 2000 was considered a futuristic date. For some reason, that number represented a time when ...

Monthly Message: Plant a tree, shelter a life with annual campaign through My Sister’s Place

Every year at My Sister’s Place, we run our annual Trees for Shelter campaign. For this fundraising campaign, we sell potted trees. The program began ...

A story still being written

By Brock Weir I don’t know what it says about me that one of the most exciting days of my life took place when I ...

Demystifying public health food safety inspections

By Dr. Michelle Quaye, Public Health Physician Health inspections take place in many different settings, but they all have the same goal: making sure that ...