December

The new King Township council was sworn in in a ceremony at The Kingbridge Centre by Rev. Nicola Skinner of All Saints' Anglican Church.

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There wasn't much snow on the ground, but that didn't stop people from having a great time at the annual Main Street Christmas in Schomberg.

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York Region officials told residents attending a public consultation session that they were seriously looking at piping water from Lake Ontario into King City

Deborah Ross, vice-president of KMK Consultants Limited, told the audience they looked at using ground water, but also considered the fact that York has a lake-based water supply to serve Aurora and Newmarket, and those pipes pass close to the village.

She also said they did extensive investigation into groundwater, with test wells going into four candidate sites. Only one of them showed much promise, and Ross said it would still fall about 17 per cent short of meeting the anticipated needs.

Ross told one of the people at the meeting the plan is to have the village entirely on lake water, although the time frame for getting there had not yet been spelled out. The existing municipal wells would eventually be closed down.

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Trustee Elizabeth Crowe was returned to her ninth year as chair of the York Catholic district School Board.

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Councillor Cober was elected deputy mayor of King for the coming year by his colleagues.

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Councillor Mortelliti asked Township staff to report on the possibility of giving King City residents more time to connect their homes to the new sewers in the hopes of relieving some of the feared financial burdens.

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OPP credited information they received in November to conclude the remains found almost 40 years ago in a Schomberg-area field were those of 17-year-old Richard "Dickie" Hovey, of Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Hovey had moved to Toronto in 1966 or '67, and was reportedly a musician in clubs in the Yorkville area. He disappeared sometime in the late spring or early summer of '67.

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The federal government directed Canada Post to come up with a plan to restore rural mail delivery.

Transport, Infrastructure and Communities Minister Lawrence Cannon announced the crown corporation was directed to develop and implement an operational plan to restore and maintain mail delivery to rural roadside mailboxes within the next 18 months.