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Article content Perth County councillors have approved a series of consultant recommendations, including the potential use of living snow hedges to reduce drifting snow on county roads, aimed at both modernizing and unifying winter maintenance across the county and in St. Marys. At Thursday’s council meeting, public works director John McClelland presented a review by area public works managers of recommendations by consultants CIMA Canada Inc. aimed at improving winter-maintenance efficiency...

Author of the article: Andy Bader Publishing date: Feb 16, 2021  •  February 16, 2021  •  3 minute read  •  Article content The possibility of attracting large industry is always in play for West Perth, but the municipality is focusing more on smaller, “incubator” type business, especially at their 59-acre Heron Business Park at the southern end of Mitchell ward. That didn’t stop the West Perth Economic Development Committee, during their November meeting, from briefly disc...

Article content Presented with a bare-bones list of complete or near-complete tasks, Perth County councillors have deferred a decision on whether to extend the contract for the county’s climate-change co-ordinator until they can review a more detailed report on the contractor’s efforts over the past two years to develop a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions locally. Hired by the Municipality of North Perth on a two-year contract through a $110,400 climate change staff grant from the Fed...