Uneasy FIT
Landowner planning waste digester plant and 17-acre solar plant adjacent to Wellington Bob Hunter is a man in a hurry. He manages, farms and does whatever he can to extract value from the 4,000 or so acres he owns in a swath stretching north of Wellington and west toward the Hillier shore on Lake Ontario. […]
Not as it appears
Dukes see a couple slip away It wasn’t a good weekend. But it wasn’t that bad either. The Wellington Dukes returned home from Cobourg on Monday night, winners in just one of their last three games. But neither of the losses was a blowout. Neither was an embarrassment. The Dukes were at least equal through […]
Gripping rural history
Traditional barns fading from Ontario’s landscape Barns. They were once the defining part of Ontario’s rural horizon. The image is still easily conjured in the imagination: the majestic wooden structure soaring over the treeline resting on a stone foundation. A thin silo rises above the barn peak anchoring one end. A drive shed housing the […]
Taste! community grown
Eleven years of gathering and growing Like its new branding, ‘Taste! community grown’ is a reflection of the County experience. In its eleventh year the event has continued to evolve and improve, holding steady as one of Festivals & Events Ontario’s top 100 events. As in years past the focus of Taste! is the produce […]
Spine-tingling
Toronto Welsh Male Voice Choir performs this Saturday It is a sound that comes very much from the heart and the soul.” That is how Garth Manning describes the effect of the approximately 50 men who comprise the Toronto Welsh Male Voice Choir. The Choir is performing at the Regent Theatre this Saturday in a […]
Scary incident
Police looking for a tall older man with a long grey beard and yellow teeth Another child has been approached by a “creepy looking” stranger in Picton. Police are urging anxious parents to let them do their job so they can find the suspect. Last Thursday a 12-year-old boy was building a bicycle ramp on […]
Hard line
Job action threatens school sports and activities About 100 high school students walked out of class on Monday in support of their teachers who are locked in a dispute with the provincial government. Earlier this month the McGuinty government passed legislation that imposed a two-year wage freeze on teachers, restricted the use of sick days […]
Third Annual Gravity Fest Results
Downhill Skateboard Qualifying 1. Switzer Patrick CAN 2. Desmaris Nikolas CAN 3. Finocchio Quin CAN Women Downhill Skateboard Qualifying 1. Zhou Cindy CAN 2. Leslie Andie CAN 3. Poirier Michelle CAN Junior 1 Downhill Skateboard Qualifying (Age 8-13) 1. Whyatt Logan CAN 2. Mulligan Timothy CAN 3. Praposki Greg CAN Junior 2 Downhill Skateboard Qualifying […]
One in five
Steven Page bares his frailties on Picton stage Steven Page doesn’t keep much back. The former lead singer and co-founder of the Barenaked Ladies has been under an intense spotlight for much of the past two decades— ever since the release of The Yellow Tape,the first independent release to reach platinum status in this country. […]
Flying high
Canadian Forces build $16 million gliding school facility at Mountain View Meghan Watts stood silently and rigidly alongside her fellow cadets in front of one of two gliders displayed before the new glider training facility at Canadian Forces Detachment Mountain View—sturdily waiting for the speeches to end and the last photograph to be snapped. She […]