Editorial

We Can't Have Our Cake & Eat it Too

Details: Published: Friday, 15 September 2017 08:56; Written by Stephen Vance, Editor

StephenVance 540 I can already hear the complaints of frustration. Four percent? Really? Our taxes are already too high. Ratepayers aren't wrong, even councillors and municipal management acknowledge that we're on the razor's edge of affordability when it comes to all the various levels of taxation we must dig into our pockets for. On the other hand, those same councillors and municipal managers aren't wrong when they say that we're in deep trouble on the infrastructure front, and the money to fund the badly needed repair and rehabilitation of our aging and crumbling roads and bridges has to come from somewhere – or does it?

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Sure, We've Got Our Problems, But Things Could be Worse

Details: Published: Friday, 08 September 2017 09:22; Written by Stephen Vance, Editor

StephenVance 540 The calendar has flipped to the month of September, the kids have returned to school, and scarecrows have begun appearing throughout the downtown this week – all is right in Meaford's world.

While we're concerning ourselves with scarecrow displays, school supplies, and canning some vegetables before winter arrives, the folks in Houston are wading through several feet of water as they try to pick up their lives and move on post-hurricane Harvey. The folks in southern Florida are bracing themselves for hurricane Irma which could be even more devastating than was Harvey.

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Municipal Infrastructure Management Will be a Challenge For Generations to Come

Details: Published: Friday, 01 September 2017 10:01; Written by Stephen Vance, Editor

StephenVance 540 You have to feel for the folks who live on Story Book Park Road, east of Grey Road 11. They have been living the infrastructure nightmare that's been warned about in recent years. The road that provides access to their homes has been a contentious subject for years, with its poor construction and ever-present potholes in the single layer tar and chip hard-top surface. Facing the years of frustration along with the failure to maintain the road to an acceptable level, Meaford's management opted to do what they considered the most cost-efficient thing they could do – they pulverized the 2.2 kilometres of road and returned it to gravel.

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So Long, Summer...

Details: Published: Friday, 25 August 2017 09:53; Written by Stephen Vance, Editor

StephenVance 540 All good things must come to an end, and so the summertime fun and break from school (and this month a break from council) will soon be over and the kids will head back to their classrooms while their parents regain their sanity.

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