Pembroke – A move to spend $2 million of taxpayer funds to finish the Algonquin Trail was a divisive issue at Renfrew County council last week with some mayors decrying the spending of taxpayer dollars on the project with others stating it was a necessary piece of economic and tourism infrastructure.
In the end, based on a weighted voted count, the move to allocate using reserve funds of $2 million over the next four years to finish the trail passed, but by a narrow margin. It did not get approv...