Armed robbery in Picton
The Prince Edward County Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police is currently investigating a robbery that took place at a convenience store on Paul Street in the Town of Picton. On November 27, 2015, at 2:11 a.m. officers responded to the store after receiving a report of an armed suspect entering the store and demanding […]
Easing tension
Interim hospice head departs after smoothing things out When Hospice Prince Edward (HPE) held its community meeting last Wednesday, it looked like smooth sailing for the organization. Good news, because when Stephanie MacLaren, executive director of the Prince Edward Family Health Team, stepped up as interim director HPE five months ago, the organization was navigating some […]
Cramming
Industrial wind turbine hearings piling on top of each other Colliding schedules brought out a series of sharp exchanges at the appeal hearing of the White Pines industrial wind project on Friday. On Monday, in a dramatic twist, the appellant, the Alliance to Protect Prince Edward County (APPEC) asked the Tribunal members to step down from […]
Cutting bone
More jobs to be eliminated at PECMH Five people working at Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital (PECMH) will see their positions eliminated in April. The cuts, announced late last week, include two nurses (one full-time team leader and another part-time nurse) as well as a physiotherapist and a hospitality service worker. A part-time patient registration clerk […]
Better than knuckle-cracking
As I pondered what to write about this week, I realized that I had been whistling. And then I realized that the habit of whistling is not as common as it once was. In the same way, you don’t hear much about recreational knuckle- cracking either. At least, that’s my observation: someone has probably already […]
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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 […]