Fatal crash
Sunday morning turned tragic when at 9:30 a.m. a car driven by 70-year-old Leona Bender failed to negotiate a curve on Highway 49 just north of the cement plant. Her car, a 2006 Chevrolet Uplander entered the ditch and struck a tree. Bender, a resident of Tyendinega First Nation, succumbed to injuries from the crash […]
Interconnected
Leaders gather to celebrate the building of a network By the end of the first decade of the third millennium, there was mounting evidence that communities in eastern Ontario were being left behind. Many complained we were on the wrong side of Toronto to compete for trade with U.S. markets. The Internet promised to be the […]
State of the foundation
National head of Community Foundations offers support and partnership It has been nearly five years since the County Community Foundation (CCF) was formed. It has generated impressive achievements—producing a landmark report on the health of the County that pointed to weaknesses in the safety net for those most vulnerable in our community. The CCF has also […]
Never ending nightmare
Heather Walters escaped domestic violence, only to come face-to-face with an unforgiving justice system It was the dead of night. With one of her five-year-old twins on her shoulders and the other clinging to her chest, watching her back, Heather Walters left her home. She had to hurry. The twins’ dad had a gun. She was betting […]
Inside Shire Hall
Peter Mertens looks back on four years in the mayor’s chair Peter Mertens easily summons a list of achievements when asked to look back upon his past four years as mayor: A top-to-bottom restructuring of the municipal organization; a stronger, more responsible financial platform, and a proactive initiative to encourage the development of housing designed […]
Bad science
Former Health Canada advisor offers searing criticism of industrial wind turbine study When Health Canada announced two years ago it would study the health impacts of industrial wind turbines, Dr. Robert McMurtry was skeptical. For some, it seemed an odd stance. McMurtry had worked for years documenting and presenting a growing mountain of data, research and case […]
Precarious perch
No one to take over the last County fishery It’s a cool, cloudy Sunday morning. The Deweys, Kendall and his wife, Joanne, have just returned to their Sophiasburgh home and fishery with their morning haul, sorted into bins. They unload everything into their processing facility—a tiny room that opens into their wooded, rural yard. Here, […]
Leadership disruption
Two managers on leave at McFarland Home According to reports received by the Times, two senior managers were escorted from HJ McFarland Memorial Home in Picton late last week. In a letter sent to residents of the senior’s residence, County manager Merlin Dewing confirmed that Administrator Beth Piper and Director of Care, Lori Kimmett had been […]
Crossroads
Wine bar and gallery set to open in Wellington Gloria grew up in Brooklyn in the ’50s. She came of age at the crossroads of the civil rights struggle in America. She was among thousands of young people her age at North Carolina A&T University to protest segregation, joining a sit-in at a Woolworth’s lunch counter […]
Wassailing into winter
County tradition is vital part of a growing tourism economy In vineyards across the County, growing season is over. The grapes have been collected. The process has begun to make them into wine. The vine leaves have become dry and yellow and have begun to fall. in the vineyards, the work to tuck the vines into […]