Council okays financial assistance for YDHR
by Roger Varley
Uxbridge council decided Monday to provide up-front funding to assist the York Durham Heritage Railway (YDHR) in paving an area just north of the railway station to provide for additional parking.
Two reports to council – one from Chief Administrative Officer Ingrid Svelnis and one from treasurer Donna Condon…continue reading…

TOWN HALL -Notes from the July 15 Council Meeting
by Roger Varley
Don’t count your chickens yet: Chief By-law Officer Kristina Bergeron submitted a report to council suggesting that township residents should be surveyed to obtain their views on chickens in residential areas. Currently, Uxbridge allows chickens to be kept only on farms or other rural properties.
Bergeron said public input is important on “a proposal of this magnitude.”…continue reading…

Four at once – we’re not ‘kid’ding!
Late last Thursday evening, Forsythe Family Farms (located just west of Greenbank) experienced an anomaly in the animal world – the birth of quadruplet kids.

Goats often give birth to twins, but the odds of a goat giving birth to quadruplets is about one in 10,000.
According to a birth announcement from Forsythe Family Farms,…continue reading…

100 Men Who Care Uxbridge recently donated $3,400 to the Memorial Sculpture Project at the Uxbridge Public Library.

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