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PRESS RELEASE – City Assists As Brutal Winter Takes Toll on Pipes

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For may home and business owners, this has been a winter of discontent as they’ve dealt with burst and frozen pipes thanks to the record low temperatures. As we head out the other side of of the season, it seems that the situation is dire for nearly 150 households that have no access to water, and there’s an emergency bit of construction that has to be performed downtown tomorrow. So it’s not over yet! Winter that is. The City of Guelph wants to put you notice that even though its March, we still have a long way to go. Continue reading “PRESS RELEASE – City Assists As Brutal Winter Takes Toll on Pipes” →

PRESS RELEASE – Negotiations Begin Again with Local Firefighters

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If you’re thinking to yourself, “Wait a minute, didn’t we just secure a new contract with firefighters a year ago?” you’re wrong. It was actually 10 months ago. But since the agreement was backdated to January 2013, that means that by the time the agreement was reached it was about 60 per cent over. So the time has come to arrange a new contract, and the City of Guelph and the Mayor’s Office has outlined the process. Continue reading “PRESS RELEASE – Negotiations Begin Again with Local Firefighters” →

PRESS RELEASE – City Announces New Water Rates for 2015

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As per the recently approved changes by Guelph City Council, there will be changes to the water rates begining on March 1. The bad news is, it’s going up; the good news though is that the increase is only coming to come out to less than $3 per month. Continue reading “PRESS RELEASE – City Announces New Water Rates for 2015” →

PRESS RELEASE – Public Invited to Discuss the Capital Budget

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The city council has had budget pre-occupations since the beginning of the year, but now we’re getting down into the meat of the matter with public delegations and hard decisions as Mayor Cam Guthrie and the new council look to pass their first capital and operating budgets. If you have strong thoughts about the city finances, this is your chance to make them known. Continue reading “PRESS RELEASE – Public Invited to Discuss the Capital Budget” →

PRESS RELEASE – DeRuyter Promoted to Police Chief

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He’s been doing the job on a temporary basis since the fall, but the Guelph Police Services Board has made the promotion permanent for Acting Chief of Police Jeffrey DeRuyter. As of March 1, we can just start calling him Chief DeRuyter. Continue reading “PRESS RELEASE – DeRuyter Promoted to Police Chief” →

PRESS RELEASE – City Plows to the Rescue After Storm

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How are you coping with our first official snow day of the winter? Well, the City of Guelph wants you to know that it’s coping okay and that city plows are out, in force, to keep the city going in the midst of the bitter cold and the foot of snow we received here in the Royal City overnight. Continue reading “PRESS RELEASE – City Plows to the Rescue After Storm” →

PRESS RELEASE – Neighbourhood Gets to Keep Skating Rink

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It’s like David versus Goliath, only this time, David won! Earlier today, the City of Guelph’s Chief Administrative Officer Ann Pappert announced that an agreement has been reached with a group neighbours in Pine Ridge to keep a less than officially sanctioned local skating rink. The rink is technically on city land between two subdivisions in the south end, but all that kids having fun and enjoying exercise got on someone’s nerve, and they made some noise about it to city hall. Reacting the quickly, the city has announced that they’ve reach a short term solution that should make everyone in the area happy, allowing the kids to keep skating as the city keeps working toward some new permanent rules regarding the situation. Continue reading “PRESS RELEASE – Neighbourhood Gets to Keep Skating Rink” →

Budget 2015 Update – Opening Moves

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The year started off with council already contentious about the budget process. Mayor Guthrie had announced his intention to bring a motion to the January 19 council meeting that would state that the city government should set itself the goal of not raising taxes anymore than the rate of inflation for the coming fiscal year. Of the seven councillors out of 12 that responded to the Guelph Tribune‘s request for comment, four were against the motion and three were against. Although the motion has since been delayed, some feel as though the mayor was going too far too soon. Continue reading “Budget 2015 Update – Opening Moves” →

PRESS RELEASE – Target Calls it Quits in Canada

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Well that didn’t last long (relatively speaking). Not even two years after Target arrived in Canada with the fanfare of a conquering hero, the U.S.-based chain announced this morning in a sudden and surprising move that they were wrapping up their Canadian operations and closing all 133 stores in this country. The Guelph store, the manager of which got the news of the closure – I’m told – from the news itself, was one of the first Targets to open in Canada, complete with frenzied line-up of eager shoppers as pictured above. Almost immediately those same shoppers were underwhelmed with what they saw, and that underwhelmed feeling seeemed to never wore off, and now, over 17,000 people nationw-wide will be out of a job sometime over the next several months. Continue reading “PRESS RELEASE – Target Calls it Quits in Canada” →