Wartime heroes
Two great stories collide through one friendship When Bob Stock and Rick Byce met via their pets at the Picton dog park a year and a half ago, neither of them knew how close a connection they were making. It wasn’t until further along in their friendship that they realized some amazing similarities about their […]
Trees in the park to come down
The County of Prince Edward will remove two Norway maple trees located in Wellington Park and grind the stumps below grade on Wednesday, November 8. County Arborists, the tree removal contractor, will be working between the hours of 8:30 am and 5 pm, on Nov. 8. The trees are located adjacent to the Wellington Park […]
Danforth Road closed November 9
Danforth Road between Baitleys Road and Chase Road will be closed to through traffic on Thursday, November 9 The road will be closed between the hours of 7 am and 5:30 pm on Thursday, Nov. 9. During the road closure, Coco Paving will replace a culvert located between 642 Danforth Rd. and Karlo Estates Winery. […]
Rehearsal
Drama class stages play about child soldier at Vimy Students in teacher Matthew Sheahan’s senior drama class at PECI have been spending their morning class rehearsing for a stage adaptation of Suzanne Pasternak’s play Vimy and the Boy Soldier from Hillier to be performed at Hillier Hall on November 9. Producer Conrad Beaubien approached Sheahan […]
TASTE change
A new direction for PECWA and its calendar of events This season, TASTE returned with a makeover and a newly defined vision from Prince Edward County Winegrowers Association (PECWA) not only for TASTE, but for all of their marquee events. PECWA has also gone through its own transition, with the appointment of Duarte Da Silva […]
Old hospital blues
Picton hospital has to come down The hospital development in Picton is still years away from breaking ground. But it doesn’t seem that way from the number of people expounding on what it will look like and where it will be located. Theories aside, there is one certainty in this equation. The current hospital building […]
Salt in the wound
Picton Terminals has large section of salt uncovered and open to the elements Picton Terminals is stockpiling a massive mound of salt and Picton Bay neighbours worry that it is not being cared for properly. Recently, a portion of the tarp that was covering the pile had blown off, leaving a significant section of salt […]
Worn out
Wellington Rec Committee disbands. New volunteers needed. The Wellington Recreation Committee (WRC) has disbanded. It was a closeknit team of volunteers in our community that were able to pull off some pretty spectacular events during their tenure. Not only the obvious ones like Canada Day, but new activities like pickle ball and line dancing were […]
Local share
Plan to increase HST to fund local roads and bridges gets council’s support Council was squeamish about advocating for a hike in the sales tax to support infrastructure renewal. Some were leery that the province might turn off its funding spigot if municipalities won a new funding source. Others worried that their own colleagues or […]
“Not going to happen”
Still some fight left in Prince Edward County The fight isn’t over.” That was the message from hundreds of County residents, health experts, biologists, a wine maker and politicians at a rally on Sunday afternoon to stop the development and construction of industrial wind turbines near Milford. wpd Canada does not have a Notice to […]