Student’s voice
Pinecrest student to help guide big changes When the Hastings-Prince Edward District School Board (HPEDSB) put the Accommodation Review Committee (ARC) process into motion, schools affected by a plan to either close, merge or rebuild were asked to contribute members in the form of the principal, one teacher, one non-teaching faculty member and one student. […]
Room to grow
Waterworks utility is an underused asset There is no shortage of capacity to grow in the County—no obvious structural constraint anchoring residential development. So why does the County continue to lag Quinte West and Belleville in the race to grow our tax bases? New home building jumped nicely in the last quarter of 2016, pushing […]
Town Hall Meeting
Tuesday, January 17 7 – 9 p.m. Sophiasburgh Town Hall, Demorestville
ATV death
A 61- year old Sophiasburgh woman is dead following an ATV collision on Black Road. At about 5:50 p.m. ON Saturday afternoon, Kathryn Richards was found laying unconscious with head injuries on the road. Her ATV was idling nearby. She was transported to Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital and then transferred to Kingston General where […]
Freeze
Council buys a year to figure out how to reconcile Secondary Plan with existing uses At its final sitting in 2016, County council passed a bylaw that, in effect, freezes for a year, any building or development on five clusters of properties on the northern edge of the village of Wellington. Each of these properties […]
Re(con)naissance
Keeping loved ones up to date with scams prevents fraudsters from winning Confidence artists have been around as long as there has been anything to steal. They rely on our instincts to get their way, and put us in positions of confusion, shame, love or fear so we will act without thinking. As communications technology […]
Resistance
Still some fight left in Amherst Island residents They cling fiercely to the last strands of hope. Amherst Island residents opposed to industrial wind development still believe they can stop 29 massive (50 – storey) machines from permanently scarring their pastoral skyline from end to end of this tiny (20-km long) island. They believe they […]
Rollover
A 75-year-old Hallowell woman was heading home just after midnight on January 1 on County Road 49 near Green Point Road. The driver was headed south when she lost control of her vehicle on icy roads. The vehicle rolled over into the ditch trapping the driver inside. No one saw the car leave the roadway, […]
Terminal saga
County considers its options now that Picton Terminals has backed away from rezoning process Tension continues to build between Picton Terminals (PT) and the port’s neighbours. The company, situated on Picton Bay below White Chapel Road east of Picton, has been slowly working toward expanding the port’s operation from a small port shipping road salt […]
Plenty to learn
School closure process to unfold quickly The December 22 deadline to apply to become a member of the Accommodation Review Committee (ARC) looms. And still, many parents, community members, even school staff, are a little murky on the details. The committees, which the board is developing to help figure out a plan for schools affected […]