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Mary Beth Corcoran is a Chatham native, born and raised. She studied Journalism at Humber College in Toronto and landed her first job in Lindsay as general reporter and dark room tech at Lindsay This Week. After eight years, she made the move to politics, joining the staff of then Victoria-Haliburton-Brock MPP Chris Hodgson as constituency assistant, and then press secretary at the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines.
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Jan 15, 20 •
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Tourism is a growth sector of a healthy economy that can sometimes be overlooked when municipalities narrow their new jobs focus to the industrial or commercial sector. Here in Chatham-Kent, we are fortunate enough to be surrounded by Great Lakes, a booming...
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Jan 2, 20 •
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Another year has passed, and looking back on 2019, there are some positive steps towards making our community safer, happier and more prosperous. Do we – meaning council and the voting taxpayers – have work to do? That’s a definite yes. But even the...
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Jan 2, 20 •
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Another academic has joined the search for answers for well owners with sediment and gas issues in Chatham-Kent. University of Windsor Assistant Professor Scott Mundle, PhD, is with the Great Lakes Institute of Environmental Research (GLIER) with expertise in...
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Dec 18, 19 •
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There is good news in the fight against human trafficking in Ontario, including funding for specialized services for survivors. The Ontario government is developing a new strategy to combat human trafficking that will be co-led by Sylvia Jones,...
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Dec 18, 19 •
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There is a running joke that a project or program can be working just fine in the private sector, but give it to government to run and all the profit-making goodness grinds to a halt. The way senior levels of government have handled the roll out of the...
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Dec 17, 19 •
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Chatham is one step closer to the construction of approximately 30 small, affordable homes on Taylor Avenue after council voted in favour of the Opportunity Villages Community Land Trust project. John Norton, General Manager of Community Development for the...
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Dec 11, 19 •
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Not all problems can be solved by throwing money at them, but the current affordable housing crisis in Chatham-Kent would benefit from an influx of cash, be it from private developers or in the form of public tax dollars – or both. With the downloading of...
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Dec 11, 19 •
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With wait times for affordable housing in Chatham-Kent measured in years, the crisis has put increased pressure on the municipality to come up with a workable strategy sooner rather than later. In a recent report to council on the rent-geared-to-income...
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Dec 4, 19 •
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An area resident raised concerns about dozens of dead fish in a municipal drain in Tilbury recently, in fear that there was some kind of toxic spill that killed them. Taking pictures of the dead fish, former Dover Twp. resident Marc St. Pierre said he called...
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Nov 27, 19 •
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The Private Members Bill from MPP Rick Nicholls to lift the ban on ownership of pit bull breed dogs is one that, if done right and properly combined with the Provincial Animal Welfare Services Act, may just keep everyone safer from life-threatening dog...
