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Ward system as-is
Local company tries to ride industry buzz FireRein Inc. hoping to make big impact on market with environmentally-friendly firefighting gel ...............Page 2.
Local Masons to mark Order’s 300th year
BY ADAM PRUDHOMME
Napanee lodge and museum will be open to visitors for anniversary celebration on June 3.......................Page 5.
Staff Reporter
Girls Rugby Hawks capture KASSAA title
municipal water infrastructure investments. Greater Napanee Mayor Gord Schermerhorn said the additional funding is appreciated, although he noted ongoing infrastructure requirements for the town’s water and sewer system amount to $30 million.
Greater Napanee’s voting system will remain unchanged, leaving residents to vote for just one councillor to represent the ward they live in as well as the mayor and deputymayor. Mayor Gord Schermerhorn was the deciding vote in Tuesday’s meeting, which saw councillors Roger Cole, Mike Schenk and Max Kaiser vote to keep it the same while councillors Shaune Lucas and Carol Harvey voted to do away with the ward system, as did deputy mayor Marg Isbester. The vote followed over a year’s worth of discussion, which saw two public meetings and a handful of deputations on the matter with citizens voicing support for both sides of the issue. Before casting the tiebreaking vote in a recorded vote, Schermerhorn voiced displeasure that his third option of shrinking to three wards didn’t receive any support.
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LaSalle gives Napanee side all it can handle in final before Hawks seal deal in overtime .................Page 21.
Hastings-Lennox and Addington MP Mike Bossio announces infrastructure funding at the Greater Napanee wastewater pollution control plant on Wednesday morning.
Town wastewater plant gets boost BY SETH DUCHENE
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Wednesday’s announcement by local MP Mike Bossio at the Greater Editor Napanee wastewater pollution control plant will mean an additional Yesterday, Greater Napanee got $447,983 in federal funding to supan injection of funding for its port upgrades at the plant. The wastewater pollution control plant announcement also including addi— although when it comes to tional funding for water-and-sewer municipal infrastructure needs in projects in Bancroft and Marmora Greater Napanee, there’s a long Lake. The allocations were made as part of a broader federal-provincialway to go.
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