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View Comments A criminal defense lawyer is facing possible financial sanctions after walking out of a pre-trial hearing in Westchester County Court Tuesday when the judge would not adjourn it. Paul Gentile, representing Dr. Matthew Bonanno on weapon charges, said he was stilll awaiting records and also could not proceed because COVID-19 restrictions did not let him sit “cheek to jowl” with his client so he could confer with him. "I'm not willing to risk my life or the life of my client for some bureaucratic need to reduce caseloads," he told acting state Supreme Court Justice Robert Near...

Summer food program awarded By Jeff Gilliland - jgilliland@timesgazette.com Hillsboro student Kobie Miles (left) talks at Monday’s board of education meeting while superintendent Tim Davis looks on. Jeff Gilliland | The Times-Gazette On a night when the Hillsboro City Schools Summer Meals Program received an award for its outstanding service from the Childrens Hunger Alliance, food service director Jessica Walker announced that the program plans to add a second vehicle and nine new stops on its routes this summer. The new vehicle will be a refashioned bus call the Juice Box. “We think w...

Article content An Ontario tribunal has dismissed an appeal of a proposed subdivision previously approved by East Ferris. The Local Planning Appeal Tribunal issued a decision April 23 approving a motion by the municipality to dismiss an appeal by Maggie Preston-Coles without a hearing. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Appeal of East Ferris subdivision dismissed Back to video The appeal is related to an approved draft plan of subdivision for residential lots in the area of Centennial Crescent, MacPherson Drive and One Mile Road. The tribunal’s d...

Article content If you already own a piece of cottage country, it’s OK to feel smug. With professionals still lobbing the word ‘frenzy’ about when describing the real estate market, first-time buyers better be prepared to compromise and steel themselves for multiple-offer situations. “Muskoka, like many smaller communities within a reasonable drive from the Greater Toronto Area, was particularly impacted by the migration out of the GTA and by buyers who accelerated their long-term plans to purchase a second property,” says John O’Rourke, broker, Royal LePage Lakes of Muskoka. We a...

‘May we walk a mile in their shoes’ Published: 4/8/2021 9:06:28 AM John O’Rourke’s recent My Turn “Sixty days” was disturbing on many levels. (For the record, we are not related, nor do we know each other.) There are many things that make him angry about “this globalist/leftist administration” and he expresses that very strongly. I’ll respond to just a few. You say that “Trump voters will not stand for this globalist/leftist takeover of our country any longer …” and you “hope our military acts soon.” I hope you don’t mean what I think you do. The word “enemy”...