Council puts off going to the market for insurance coverage for another year The County spends a lot of money on insurance—$834,610 last year—up 12 per cent over the year before. Three per cent of every dollar raised in taxes goes to pay the County’s insurance bill. Last year, facing its third major increase in [...]
Prince Edward County Birding Festival took flight on Saturday; runs until May 21 This rose-breasted grosbeak likely flew across Lake Ontario Friday night on its way north before it was ensnared in nets at Prince Edward Point Bird Observatory. It was later released to continue its journey. Tweet
Last Saturday, Robb Bagg dropped by Mary Ann Sills Park in Belleville to watch a little football. His cousin, Matthew Mead, is the quarterback for the Bancroft entry in the Belleville Minor Football League. As he was leaving the grounds at the end of the third quarter, Bagg quietly suggested to Mead’s father that he [...]
County Jazz Festival unveils 2012 headliners It may be the best lineup for the County’s Jazz Festival ever. That was the prevailing view among volunteers, sponsors and well-wishers on hand to kick off the annual week-long celebration of jazz held amid the bustling tasting room of Huff Estates Winery on Friday afternoon. Perhaps the highest [...]
Council still learning how to balance rights of property owners and the community’s interest Is your home on the list? If so your rights as a homeowner are set to be diminished just a bit at the next meeting of council. Or looked at another way—the community just won 60 days to talk you out [...]
LOML’s aunt used to say there weren’t too many reasons for old folks to get together unless it was to attend a funeral or a grandchild’s wedding. Every time she said something to that effect, I thought it must be H E double uppers and lowers to get old. She might have been about my [...]
This time of the year wonderful things happen in the vineyards of the northern hemisphere. The vines begin their yearly majestic journey toward a bountiful harvest, subject to detours created by Mother Nature. The vines awaken from their dormant winter state when the soil reaches the right temperature. In an effect known as “weeping,” the [...]
After a monster is convicted and sentenced, there is precious little left but to search for lessons learned. So it was this week after a jury found Michael Rafferty guilty of murder. Now the nation is asking: how can we keep our children safe? The media assure us that stranger abductions are extremely rare, and [...]
Among the myriad economic perversions created by Ontario’s Green Energy Act one of the more intriguing, and possibly treacherous, is the creation of a financial marketplace for municipal favours. The McGuinty government was noisily criticized when it laid low government regulations and environmental protections that enable intermittent electricity generators to move their wind and solar [...]
