Carrot and stick
LHIN spending $1.5 million to reduce wait times The wait list for some basic hospital services remains unacceptably long, according to the head of the SouthEast Local Healthcare Integration Network (LHIN). Paul Huras wants hospitals in the region to clean up the wait lists for knee and hip surgeries as well as some diagnostic imaging, […]
Green light
Ministry gives new hospital the go-ahead Northumberland-Quinte West MPP Lou Rinaldi got right to the point during an announcement at the Prince Edward Community Centre yesterday morning. The politician visited the County, along with his counterpart Todd Smith, bearing good news from provincial health minister Eric Hoskins: the project to build a new hospital in […]
Persistent worries
Dozens of Picton Bay residents urge council to retract support for Picton Terminals. For the most part, the County’s committee of the whole meetings go unnoticed by the general public, the nave of Shire Hall’s council chambers mostly empty, save for reporters and the odd concerned citizen. That wasn’t the case last Thursday, as dozens […]
Redistribution
Council increases homeowners taxes to pay for reduction to farmland owners Andrew Stronach, heir to the Magna auto parts empire, owns several thousand acres of farmland in South Marysburgh. He and other wealthy landholders are the big winners in council’s decision last week to reduce his property tax bill and raise those of County homeowners. […]
The year ahead
Mayor Quaiff and CAO James Hepburn offer a roadmap for the year ahead Once the holiday season has wound down, and everyone is finished celebrating the new year, it’s tradition for mayors to host a new year’s levee. The meeting, held with other regional politicians, the press and the public, is a chance for the […]
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 […]