Truck volume, road construction, routinely clogging Highway 402
$38 million in new construction in Plympton-Wyoming in 2022
March 6, 2023
$38 million – that’s the value of the new homes and businesses in Plympton-Wyoming in 2022.
That from Tracy Pringle from the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation. She told council the town now has 5,459 properties with about 58 per cent of them homes and 36 per cent farmland. The rest is commercial and industrial.
Pringle says there is about $2 billion worth of property in the municipality.
The rest of Ontario also saw a 2022 growth spurt with 45,000 homes built generating $37 billion in municipal taxes.
MPAC hasn’t reassessed the value of homes since 2016. One was planned in 2020, but was delayed because of the pandemic. Pringle says she has no “inside” knowledge on when the province move ahead suggesting word may come during the provincial budget this spring.
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Truck volume, road construction, routinely clogging Highway 402
August 1, 2025
Cathy Dobson/The Independent Community leaders are pushing for a solution to hours-long backups on Highway 402 this summer as some say congestion approaching the Blue Water Bridge has never been worse. “A lot of drivers are coming in really grumpy after sitting there for a couple of hours,” said Gerry Lee, operations manager at the Blue Water Bridge Duty Free
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One guilty plea in the Grogan classic car case
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Heather Wright/The Independent One of the four people charged in the case which rocked the classic car community has plead guilty to a single charge of uttering a forged document. And the three others facing charges after 200 classic cars were stolen and sold to unwitting car enthusiasts will be on trial sooner than normal. In late 2023, Larry Grogan
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Watermain work starts in three weeks
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OPP looking for man after car wash change machine cracked open
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Lambton OPP are looking for a man they believe broke into a change machine at a Petrolia car wash. OPP say on July 24, around 3 pm, a man with a small build, dark brown and white goatee and carrying a backpack, damaged the change machine at Aqua Shine and then took money from the machine. He left the scene
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