Studio Tour
Excellent weekend for 30th annual Studio Tour Afine weekend brought increased traffic through many of the studios participating in this year’s Studio Tour. At its inception in 1993 as an initiative by Peta Hall, the tour comprised just a handful of studios centred in the Bloomfield area, and it has since grown to cover almost […]
Craft beer festival
Base31 brings brewers and distillers to Drill Hall Afine selection of beers, spirits, ciders, and cocktails were on tap at the inaugural Craft Beer Festival at Base31. Although billed as a beer festival, other types of beverages were in the majority, with (on Friday night) only 555 Brewing Company and Common Good Beer offering a […]
Accelerating
Base31 plans endorsed by council Council gave an emphatic thumbs up to Base31 last week. Specifically, it endorsed the developer’s Area Concept Plan in principle and vowed to ask the province for approval for the Community Infrastructure and Housing Accelerator (CIHA). This program is part of the Province’s strategy to streamline building more homes and […]
Milford Fair
Large crowd fills the Milford Fairground A glorious late summer day brought hundreds of people to Milford for the 76th annual Fall Fair. A pipe and drum band from 8 Wing in Trenton led the parade followed by an assortment walkers, cyclists and drivers as the parade made its way to the fairground. Parade watchers […]
Kate’s Rest aquaponics
Demonstration project using twin technologies Kate’s Rest’s first aquaponics project, begun in 2019, was off to a fledgling start when the pandemic struck just as it was up and running. As with much of the rest of the world, everything ground to a halt. However, even though it was operating for a very short time, […]
Overwhelming
Lots of questions, few answers Kaitlin came to Wellington last week. The developer says he already has tens of millions of dollars in sales for a massive subdivision in this village, a scale of development and transformation that more than one commenter described as ‘overwhelming.’ The meeting was ostensibly to consider changes the developer wants […]
Bringing home the gold
County resident wins five gold medals Cheryl Shannon returned home with a veritable king’s ransom in gold medals from the 16th World Dragon Boat Championships, held in Pattaya, Thailand last month. She was the steersperson on Canada’s Senior C team, comprised of members over the age of 60. This is her seventh world championships, and […]
Monarch Point cleanup
Volunteers bash the trash in newly created Reserve About three dozen volunteers donned work gloves and then spent their Saturday morning picking up trash from the newly created Monarch Point Conservation Reserve. This event was a combined effort of the South Shore Joint Initiative (SSJI) and the South Marysburgh Recreation Committee, and is a continuation […]
Underground
Trunk line plans revealed A steady stream of waterworks ratepayers filed through the doors of the Wellington and District Community Centre’s Rotary Room last Thursday evening as the County hosted a Public Consultation Centre for the proposed trunk water main, sanitary sewer, and pumping station to run under the Millennium Trail in Wellington. Residents and […]
No free ice
Council turns down Dukes’ sponsorship deal The Dukes left Shire Hall emptyhanded last week after the Council unanimously declined to accept a naming rights sponsorship deal the team had proposed. Last month, Tealah Clement, COO of the Wellington Dukes, and Kelly Martin, Director of Sales and Marketing, presented a sponsorship opportunity to council that would […]