BREAKING NEWS: Kip Ward passes away
- March 10, 2019
- William Nichols
UPDATE posted at 3:15 p.m. Feb. 14: The News Guard is gathering community reaction about the sudden death of Lincoln City City Councilor Kip Ward who has passed away from leukemia. Lincoln City City Manager Ron Chandler said he will miss Ward’s friendship. “He was a great friend,” Chandler said. “I thoroughly enjoyed his friendship. …
Wards praying for different issues – Witbank News
- March 7, 2019
- William Nichols
Community members of two wards in eMalahleni took it upon themselves to pray for different issues in the city. Wards 19 and 21 in Tasbet came together to prayer against crime, drug abuse, for fewer accidents on the roads towards December holidays, housing allocation problems at Uthingo, praying for the local municipality, praying for councillors, …
Ontario Municipal Board Tosses Council’s Attempt to Gerrymander Wards, Axes Ward 14, Creates New Ward on Mountain
- March 5, 2019
- William Nichols
The Ontario Municipal Board has overturned Council’s gerrymandered ward boundaries, imposing the Watson and Associations final report Option 2 which creates a new Mountain ward and eliminates the present Ward 14; splitting the existing rural ward between Dundas and Ancaster’s existing Wards 12 and 13. The new ward map (above) creates a fourth ward on …