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Fallout

Posted: September 18, 2015 at 8:58 am   /   County News

What to expect next It’s hard to gauge what the fallout will be from the Environmental Review Tribunal, which was put on hold over a week ago while managers and technical support at the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) dig through their paperwork to find any documents related to the proposed wind project […]

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Smith Challenges Minister’s Double Standard

Posted: September 16, 2015 at 2:10 pm   /   County News

Two weeks after a Ministry of Natural Resources expert’s testimony made waves at the ERT hearing in Demorestville, the ripples finally made it to Queen’s Park.

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Redesigner

Posted: September 11, 2015 at 9:25 am   /   County News

County man finds diamonds in the ruins Alexandre Fida learned to read English using The Settler’s Dream. In his family, it became a common joke to call his tattered copy—now missing a dust jacket, its pages tattered and spine torn—Alex’s bible. It makes sense. When his family moved to the County from Switzerland, his parents bought […]

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Accidental whistleblower

Posted: September 9, 2015 at 11:57 am   /   County News

Ministry expert warned that Ostrander Point wind project posed a high risk to Blanding’s turtles before it issued permit to developer to “harm, harass and kill” the endangered species It was three days into eye-wateringly dull expert testimony, technical language and lawyer-speak. Three days in a hot, humid room with three ineffectual fans lazily turning above a wilting crowd, with […]

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Chain divas

Posted: September 4, 2015 at 9:36 am   /   County News

An evening of opera… and bicycles Bicycles and operas are an unlikely match. Which is just as well, since everything about the Bicycle Opera Project seems unlikely. The company of musicians, opera singers and a stage designer filled the Baxter Centre with beautiful operatic music on Sunday evening, along with a cacophony of bicycle bells. This […]

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Not looking away

Posted: September 4, 2015 at 9:30 am   /   County News

Public meeting to consider sponsorship of Syrian refugee families to the County More than half the population has either died, been displaced from their homes or fled their country in the past four and half years. About four million, about the population of Toronto, have fled as refugees. With no place to go, and few welcoming nations […]

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Gas leak

Posted: September 2, 2015 at 11:50 am   /   County News

Update: The Loyalist Parkway was reopened at the east of Wellington at 4:30 Wednesday afternoon. OPP have determined that the gas leak has been controlled and the area deemed safe. 11:50 Wednesday morning: Workers hit and ruptured a gas line in Wellington this morning a little after 9 a.m. in the vicinity of a new […]

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Making waves

Posted: August 28, 2015 at 9:19 am   /   County News

Fall music festival grows When Ryan Noth first came across the amphitheatre at Sandbanks provincial park, he could imagine what a great venue it would be for a music festival. When he discovered how seldom the space was used, that festival became a mission. “First year, the idea was just to try and make use […]

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Shifting landscape

Posted: August 28, 2015 at 9:14 am   /   County News

Wellington development comes under fire at planning meeting Many of the folks who have purchased and built homes near a Wellington property known as Twelve Trees don’t want to see it developed as apartment and townhouse residences. They enjoy their view. They like the fact their property backs onto a large green space. The want it […]

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Times Ticket Giveaway

Posted: August 21, 2015 at 9:40 am   /   County News

Enter to win

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