No quick fixes
County on the long journey toward financial sustainability Council is having its first look at the municipality’s proposed 2014 budget this week. The picture it paints is a grim reminder of the challenges of balancing the County’s books. The municipality has too many roads, too many buildings and too many decaying underground pipes. Each category […]
The new math
Fitness equals learning There are an abundance of philosophies, centuries old that link a healthy mind to a healthy body. Today the hiccup in the philosophy comes in the execution, that is, putting the body in motion to foster the healthy mind, especially in modern, first world countries that are seemingly sliding down a path […]
Killer lapses
Dukes soundly defeat Kingston, but stumble momentarily in Milton It is the momentary lapses that have come to trip up the Wellington Dukes this season. Too frequently a strong collective effort for 50 minutes has been extinguished by a couple of bad shifts. In just the second game of the season the Dukes were in […]
End of the road
Municipality changes quiet cul-desac into a thoroughfare The folks on Brickworks Drive believe the municipality has radically diminished their bayside community, and put their children at increased risk. Further, they say council was duped into opening an entrance from their cul-de-sac community onto a nearby private lane based on emergency and safety considerations. Now that […]
Leap of faith
Councillors haltingly take next step toward a new fire hall in Consecon Councillors threw cold water on a plan to build a new firehall in Consecon last week at Shire Hall. The plan would see a pair of aging halls (Consecon and Hillier ) replaced by one new station. Though council agreed in principle more […]
No earth-shattering kaboom
Firefighters quickly extinguish potentially dangerous fire of a propane tanker truck County firefighters managed to avoid a disaster in Wellington on Monday morning. A quick response, good training and some luck helped to ensure that a fire that broke out in a tanker truck delivering propane to a bulk storage yard didn’t escalate into a […]
Getting stronger
Girduckis and McKeown step to the fore The Wellington Dukes won both games on the weekend, yet continue to languish near the bottom of the East—a measure of just how competitive each team is in the division. So close that just two points separate the Dukes in fourth place from Cobourg residing in the top […]
Fire out at propane distributor in Wellington
County firefighters mop up after extinguishing blaze of a propane delivery tanker truck in Wellington on Monday morning. No injuries have been reported. This morning at approximately 10:45 a.m. a delivery tanker truck caught fire at Greer Propane in Wellington, Prince Edward County. According to County officials, emergency responders were on scene within […]
Private beach
Pentecostal Church says it owns shoreline in Hillier Who owns the Hillier beaches? This particularly impressive strip of sandy beach has been the subject of controversy, seemingly, since it was first surveyed more than 200 years ago. Ownership of a stretch of this beach has been called into question again. This time as a result […]
Simply the best
Behind the results of the NRCC study that ranks PECMH as the top performing community hospital in the province. The folks of Prince Edward County have always known their hospital was special—that the care they received there was unlike anywhere else. Now it’s official. Now everyone knows it. According to an authoritative survey conducted by […]