Plenty to see and do
Prepping for Canada Day in Wellington It had been a long and hard-fought debate over much of the year before, but on July 1, 1965, a new flag at last flew over Canada. Fifty years later this is the flag most Canadians have ever known. We wear the red maple leaf proudly—to honour sacrifice, courage […]
Fatal crash claims two lives
Two men are dead, and a woman and two other men are in hospital with serious to life-threatening injuries after a car driven by an 83-year old male left his lane colliding head-on with three of eight motorcycles. The collision happened on Loyalist Parkway, just west of Hillier near Stapleton Road just after 2 on […]
Dividing sign
Council accepts Rotary sponsorship, looking for more to help fund replacement of display sign at fairgrounds in Picton It took the better part of 90 minutes and a handful of procedural motions for a council committee last week to decide it will wait and see what to do to replace a broken roadside display sign at the entrance […]
Creek wins
Either the buildings or the creek had to move. The buildings lost. Wellington’s main intersection, at Main and Wharf Streets, is about to change—dramatically so. The buildings and property on the northwest corner of the intersection, currently housing a convenience store and, until recently, a pizza shop, have been purchased by the municipality and will soon […]
Torch bearer
Nurse and physical fitness advocate will carry Pan Am torch On July 3, Jennifer Ronan will check in with Pan Am security in Belleville. She can’t carry anything with her. She’ll be handed shorts, a T-shirt and an armband—the official uniform—and be shuttled to her starting point along a very long route. There she’ll wait, surrounded […]
Cider rules
Cider makers seek a level playing field Our landscape is rich with the flora brought in by the French and British who colonized Canada. Some of those plants were so useful and took to the climate and soil so well they became part of Canadian culture. In the glorious late spring air of Waupoos, on one […]
Vital
Community working groups find some solutions to food problems For two years, the County Community Foundation has been organizing and facilitating three groups to examine the state of food insecurity in Prince Edward County. The Vital Signs working groups have looked at the state of transportation, education and food accessibility. was to find ways to […]
Next stop: downtown
Business associations consider shuttle service to and from provincial park It is expected that more than 600,000 people will visit Sandbanks provincial park this year. Each summer, their arrival, en masse, provokes a range of predictable responses—from happiness from those eager to provide goods and services, to dismay from those accustomed to unfettered access to parking […]
Up in the air
No one knows what will become of Picton’s town hall As the County gears up to cut the ribbon on a brand new fire station in Consecon, a tender is being put out for another station in Picton, this one farther from the centre of town. The station that now houses the office for the […]
Sitting out
Council, interim CAO, nip micromanagement plot in the bud When County council severed ties with former Chief Administrative Officer Merlin Dewing, one of their sticking points was an inability to access staff. The former CAO argued it was his job to act as the middleman between staff and council, taking direction from the elected body to […]