Boldly going
Shire Hall moves a step closer to building a new long-term care home in Picton Shire Hall is nearly ready to award a construction contract for a new longterm care home near the existing H.J. McFarland Memorial Home. The 126,000 s.f. facility will comprise 160 beds across five wings—approximately double the size of the existing […]
Festival of flight
Radio control airplane flyers host a day of high flying fun Members of the Prince Edward County RC Flyers gave a demonstration of their flying skills at the club’s field on Clarke Road last Saturday. There were model planes of several different kinds, from the classic Cessna-like craft to sleek modern jets. Some were powered […]
Too many questions
Former councillor calls for a pause to waterworks expansion plans A growing number of voices are calling for a pause in expanding Wellington’s waterworks. In the wake of an audit committee revealing massive holes in the planning and financing of the project, of new homebuilding in the County falling to levels unseen in 20 years, […]
Not there yet
Council sends Loyalist Heights plans back to the drawing board During last Wednesday’s planning and development committee meeting, councillors reviewed a zoningc hange for the property that sits along Sandy Hook Road. The Loyalist Heights lands run along the Millennium Trail and are proposed to house 396 units, including 100 single-detached residential lots, 26 semi-detached […]
Crumbling foundation
Consultant confirms massive hole in waterworks plan The story started falling apart early last week. Shire Hall’s audit committee had been tasked with nailing down the assumptions that supported spending hundreds of millions on waterworks in Wellington and beyond. How many people are coming? When will they come? How much commercial development will they generate? […]
Live question
Who says water plants need to be replaced? The audit committee chair was reeling after learning that a key bit of the foundation supporting the Wellington waterworks expansion plan had collapsed under scrutiny. So John Hirsch may be forgiven for presuming he knows the answer to one of the primary questions still outstanding. “There is […]
Drawing lines
CAO says the problem is Wellington’s Secondary Plan It all comes back to lines on a map. The basis for spending $100 million in infrastructure in Wellington is thin lines drawn around the fields north of the village. The audit committee is still waiting for Watson’s population growth person, Jamie Cook, to explain how his […]
Saving Ontario shipwrecks
Preserving marine heritage for future generations The Great Lakes are the graveyard of thousands of sailing vessels, and while some may be of little interest to historians, there is a veritable slice of marine heritage at the bottom of these lakes. The area in Lake Ontario around the County is no exception, and there are […]
Q & A
Shire Hall responds to questions about a regional water plant In April, Shire Hall hosted an information centre unveiling its plans for a new super-regional water plant in Wellington. This mega project will be built in this village, but scaled up to accommodate the rapid population growth Shire Hall expects to inundate Picton and Wellington. […]
Sober outlook
Quinte West expects slow increases in population and new homebuilding Quinte West is expecting modest population growth—15 per cent—over the next 20 years, according to Watson and Associates. The consulting firm is projecting a population growth rate of under one per cent per year in Quinte West for the next 20 years—roughly in line with […]