Today is Long Branch Fest, the first one in fact, where we celebrate our community. I saw these buskers on my way to Nite Owl for a swanky haircut this afternoon. The buskers were playing The Man in Me by Bob Dylan, a song I… Read More
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Do not feed the coyotes….
The City has finally put up some signs letting people know there are coyotes in Sam Smith Park. They have been around as long as we’ve lived here, but it seems that there have been increased sightings over the past couple years. At least I… Read More
On this walk with George in Long Branch….
TUFFY P posting : lemme see.. the after dinner walk tonight included a new admirer on Lake Promenade, finding a tennis ball in Sam Smith Park, carrying the ball, self-tossing the ball, catching the ball, carrying the ball, peeing, meeting a young girl named Georgia,… Read More
Long Branch challenges – an update at Preserved Stories
Check out the Preserved Stories blog for an update on the challenges our community has been facing with aggressive development. This post features a recent email from Jennifer Keesmaat, Chief Planner & Executive Director, City Planning Division, City of Toronto to David Godley of Long… Read More
Public meeting on Long Branch severances
Ward 6 Councillor Mark Grimes and the City planning group held a public meeting last night at the Assembly Hall to address the growing frustration of Long Branch residents who have been coping with an explosion of applications from developers to chop up 50 foot… Read More
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More tree removal activity – lower Twenty Seventh Street #longbranchto
Yesterday there was continued activity over at 2 Twenty Seventh. Contractors were removing tree trunks and debris, and loading it into dump trucks. At one point in the afternoon someone from the City parked out front and watched what was going on for an hour… Read More
Aftermath – healthy trees needlessly destroyed in Long Branch
Several healthy mature trees at 2 Twenty Seventh St, rendered unsafe during excavation on the property, were removed yesterday. Initially, tops were cut off them to mitigate immediate hazard. Now they are all gone. The developer applied to remove these trees prior to excavation but… Read More
Where exactly DO we live? #longbranchto
Twenty Seventh Street is in Toronto, or at least it has been since 1998 when the former City of Etobicoke and other municipalities were amalgamated into the greater City. Anyone around here would never say Etobicoke though, but rather South Etobicoke. Some people would call… Read More
Trouble on 27th Street
The first problem occurred Saturday afternoon, when the work crew at what was 2 Twenty Seventh Street knocked out power to part of our street for hours by hitting power lines with their equipment. In the past few days they also dug up the roots… Read More