Water access
Unless you watched to the very end of the hour-and-half-long Committee of Council meeting, you would have missed a key bit of news last week. Wellington is getting a new boat launch. Good news for boaters, fishers, and beachgoers. Better yet, it sets up a range of fresh opportunities for Wellington Rotary beach. A group […]
Allies
It’s not a fair fight. Residential builders will make many millions selling homes in Wellington. They will play rough. They are keenly motivated to maximize their return. They are experienced at working municipal rules in their favour. They will dedicate resources to find the shortest path to profitability and to widen margins. It is what […]
Bystanders
Billboards have sprouted on Consecon Street and Belleville Road, proclaiming the coming Cork and Vine housing development across the top of Wellington. One thousand, three hundred and seventy-one new homes. One developer. It is not the story we were told. It’s not what we agreed to. Once there were four developers competing to build out […]
Unintended consequences
It’s a good village. Walkable. Hugging a Great Lake that stretches to the horizon. Majestic tree-lined streets. Most of the goods and services one needs in life. The Millennium Trail. The Dukes. A spacious and welcoming waterside park. Beach and boardwalk. A dock offering access to two lakes. A noble library. A great many terrific […]
Data in the waste
The holiday weekend is behind us—the first in a couple of years in which we weren’t constrained by government restrictions aimed at reducing the spread of Covid-19. While some worry long-delayed family gatherings could produce another spike, others suggest the wake of fractured families and relationships risks another type of slow-burning toll on our well-being. […]
Secure the knowledge
Correction: The print version of this story said the DMO Interim board terminated the County’s tourism marketing staff. They did not. Sorry. Hints of spring are colouring a landscape grayed by the residue of winter. Fragile shoots poke out of dirt frozen and snow-covered just weeks ago. And the light of a longer day ushers […]
Perhaps again
Last week the Hospital Foundation recognized Leo Finnegan’s tireless advocacy of the Picton hospital. Many readers will remember his unrelenting defence of the capacity and purpose of our community hospital. He rallied the community, filling community halls and buses, taking the fight to save Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital to Queen’s Park. Finnegan wielded Alan […]
Locals only
We know it’s wrong. We know that discriminating against our fellow humans is a failing—likely rooted in our primitive evolutionary wiring. We know that it is unfair, unjust, and destructive to our social well-being—that it runs counter to our fundamental ideas of a civilized society. We know, too, that generalizing about someone based on age, […]
Unravelling
If you are a waterworks customer in Prince Edward County, you need to know what-in-the-fresh-hell is going on in Wellington. The waterworks utility has just taken the first few steps toward the realization of a $100 million megaproject in this village, and already costs are ballooning. Meanwhile, one of the key funding sources has just […]
Can we talk?
Too much. Way too soon. The County wants to rewrite Wellington’s Secondary Plan in the next nine weeks. That’s wildly ambitious. But that’s not all; it also wants to overlay a Heritage Conservation District Plan (HCD)—a sweeping array of new rules, guidelines, appeal mechanisms and such—on the village in the same nine weeks. Even if […]