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 […]
Last of the fishermen
County musician and writer remembers a lost industry It started with a row of five white, wooden crosses behind a chapel in Black Creek. Suzanne Pasternak discovered the chapel when she first moved to the County, over 30 years ago. She began photographing the old, well-tended graves, and she noticed two of the crosses, apparently […]
Last line of defence
Why environmental groups across the province will be closely monitoring the Ostrander Appeal There is a great deal on the line in an appeal hearing set to take place in a Toronto courtroom this December. For many, it is the fate of the Blanding’s turtle, an endangered species, that will be at issue. For others, it is […]
Adventures in LaLaLand
The molten world of Kirei Samuel It is chilly this morning in LaLaLand waiting for the bus to arrive. Artist Kirei Samuel, insulated in a long woollen coat, is keeping busy in her implement shed-turned studio, preparing for a visit by some 65 members of the William Morris Society of Canada. They are late. The […]
Issues on the doorstep
What the candidates heard over the past six weeks Crumbling roads, higher taxes, wind turbines— and the beloved, beleaguered hospital. Certainly, these were the big, meaningful issues in the 2014 municipal election in Prince Edward County. But the hot topic that confronted candidates over and over again as they knocked on doors throughout this long […]