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By Galen Simmons Though it hasn’t yet been finalized by the province, St. Marys council has signalled its intent to renew an updated service agreement that will see the relocation of the town’s Service Ontario office to the Municipal Operations Centre (MOC) at 408 James St. S.
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Former driver and new owner bring Stonetown Taxi back to St. Marys By Galen Simmons Anyone who has tried to call a taxi in St. Marys over the last couple of years will be pleased to learn Stonetown Taxi is making its triumphant return to St. Marys under a new owner after it shut down in 2022. Mohit Kamboj, who drove for the previous owner of Stonetown Taxi before health issues led to the company’s shutdown in 2022, officially brought Stonetown Taxi and Delivery Service back to St. Marys with the company’s first full day of service Sept. 9.
“I used to work for Stonetown Taxi but the owner’s health; he was just sick and he moved out of town and that’s why at that time we had to shut it down right away,” Kamboj said. “Then I’d just seen on social media … there was just a huge demand for that and I also know a lot of people in the town who were asking me questions like, ‘Why did (Stonetown Taxi) close?’ Then I decided I would be opening a cab company.
At the Sept. 10 council meeting, director of corporate services André Morin presented a number of changes that will be included in the town’s 2024 service-renewal agreement with the Ontario Ministry of Government and Consumer Services. The current service agreement first designated the town as a service provider in October 2021 after the retirement of St. Marys’ previous Service Ontario franchisee in 2020 led to the office’s closure. Public outcry at the loss of the local provincial-services office led to it reopening in October 2021 under the town’s administration. The town renewed the agreement for one year in October 2023 as staff worked through a plan to move the Service Ontario to a town-owned facility.
“I’m just really excited to serve the town.”
“The idea when we first went into this agreement with Service Ontario was to pilot synergies that Service Ontario and municipalities can have together,” Morin said. “Since then, I believe there’s been a few different partnerships with other municipalities and obviously you’ve heard about the partnerships Service Ontario and Staples has as well. That was kind of the start of those types of relationships Service Ontario was trying to have.
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