Category: ward one
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Every Vote DOES Count
As many of you are aware, there was a provincial election recently. The campaign seemed to go on forever since Premier Dalton McQuinty closed down Queens Park early this summer and thus the rubber hit the road. During that campaign there was a referendum on our voting system that we, as voters, had to figure…
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Lights at Thompson and Yates Drive
There are a few sources of information available for Milton residents on the internet. If you need a good source of local information and news in a one stop shop, you can go to www.miltonsearch.com where they update almost daily on the happenings around town. One other site that I go to, which I highly…
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Community Road Watch
With the new school term beginning and the almost in synch complaints about peoples “bad driving” running rampant throughout the town this article by Halton Region Chair Gary Carr is quite timely. Many people I spoke with during the last municipal campaign talked very passionately about road safety. In fact it was one of the…
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Hawthorne Village Ranks in the Top 25 in Canada
Yep, you heard it right. Hawthorne Village Public School has been ranked in the top 25 schools in Canada. That is an amazing achievement in itself, but for a school to be at that level in its 2nd year of operation is worth a second look. We are quite familiar with HVPS as its where…
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Look whats coming now
Town council was told recently by the budget department of Milton that an 8 per cent increase in taxes for 2008 and a further increase of 5 per cent in 2009 will be needed in order to sustain existing service levels. 8 %? Thats not a small increase now is it? Back in 2007 taxes…
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Milton Search
For those who are new to Milton, it can be a confusing place. There is a lot of construction going on, roads are closed at times and theres so much to learn about the town, you dont know where to begin. That’s all changed. Back in June, at the 150th Anniversary Street Party in fact,…