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 […]
Wobbly weekend
Dukes set to open regular season In what might be a portent of the season to come, the Dukes came away from the Woodchuck Tournament on Sunday with just a single overtime victory in four games to show for their weekend of effort. More worrying is that the team lost rugged winger Josh Gervais for […]
Dukes ready
Ill temper on the ice leads to fisticuffs in stands The Wellington Dukes finish off their preseason schedule this weekend with four games at the Woodchuck Classic in Vermont, facing off against squads from Boston and Foxboro, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and New Jersey. Despite a very young and still fluid lineup, the Dukes have mounted […]
Withering wind
Pro and anti-industrial wind forces face off in Picton As protests go, it remained a fairly restrained affair. There were a few noisy confrontations but little disruption of the wind energy developer’s public meeting. The heavy security presence and a smattering of plain-clothes police officers weren’t called upon to do more than observe. The ingredients […]