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Connective tissue
For filmmaker Ryan Noth, everything is connected Ryan Noth is on a mission. He’s finding places in the County he refers to as “criminally underused,” and bringing music to them. And that mission seems to be connecting itself to everything else in his life. It’s how he got started with Sandbanks: New Waves, a sophomore music […]
Wishing for trees
County will review tree replacement policy Around the County, where trees once stood, there are now empty spaces. Every year this happens: County staff identify trees that must be removed because of their condition or location. And while a tree removal policy, written more than a decade ago, encourages planting new trees in their place, it […]
Topsy turvy
Wind approval process puts responsibility on citizens, not the developer, to protect the County The thing that troubles Henri Garand about the Green Energy Act is the fact that regular citizens are held to a higher burden of proof than the companies they’re fighting against. Garand, a member of the Alliance to Protect Prince Edward County (APPEC) […]
Out of the frying pan…
Councillors make a decision out of fear, but mayor doubts it will work After 18 years of talking about the size of council and how the County should be represented, council has at last shifted—albeit slightly. The result is a compromise no one is happy with. The pressure to exit the stalemate in which council […]
Love in wartime
He was missing for months, she was determined to find him Marjorie Drechsler was shocked to see herself on the cover of the Times last week. She had never seen the photograph before. Yet there she was—her 21-year-old self—marching with determination with fellow members of the Canadian Women’s Army Corps on the front page. The image […]
Rule of law
Judicial review team challenging ‘oppressive’ Green Energy Act When government and the interests of big business align, it is often individual rights and freedoms that get trampled upon, according to the Osgoode Law School students working with a group of County residents and lawyers seeking a judicial review of the Green Energy Act (GEA). “When that happens, […]
New kids on the block
Settling in at school On Wednesday morning, six kids, all a little shy and nervous, all a little excited, headed to Bloomfield with their father and a host of volunteers to tour Pinecrest Memorial elementary school and enroll in classes. The tour itself is nothing out of the ordinary— it’s the tour principal Kim Myderwyk […]
Weak shift
Councillors make a decision, but mayor says it won’t stick After 18 years of static, council has shifted, slightly. The result is a compromise no one is happy with. The pressure to make some decision about the size of council led to a council meeting Tuesday evening with an actual decision, if a weak one. […]
OPP investigating suspicious person incident
On November 5, 2015 the Ontario Provincial Police Prince Edward County detachment received a report of a suspicious male. The incident occurred shortly after 6 p.m. in the vicinity of Main and Consecon streets in the Town of Wellington. A teenaged male was walking on the sidewalk when he was approached by the suspect who […]