Choosing the difficult path
In the pursuit of life on Mars In recent days NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has begun sending data and images from Gale Crater from a planet spinning about 225 million kilometres away—after a precise yet extremely dangerous landing. In the weeks months, and years to come the car-sized rover will climb nearby mountains and examine […]
Granted bail
Convicted sexual predator sentenced to nine years in prison but released hours later pending appeal For the girls at the centre of a foster home abuse scandal, the horror continues to grind on. Even as the 71-year-old man convicted of sexually abusing them, in the most horrifying of ways, was hearing his sentence, his wife […]
Foster parent gets 9 years
A 71 year old man convicted of several charges of sexual abuse against two young children in his care as a foster parent has been sentence to 9 years in a penitentiary this morning in Picton. The man, who cannot be named as it would reveal the identity of his victims, stood in stunned silenced […]
A Wellington Duke
Cam Yuill looks past the team that was his dream When the Wellington Dukes reassemble this weekend to begin another campaign, a fan favourite from the past four years won’t be there. Instead, Cam Yuill is getting ready for school. The rugged and hard-nosed forward is getting ready to suit up for the UOIT Ridgebacks […]
Funny farm
Strong performances, disarming story help reap rich Harvest I wasn’t sure about theatre under a tent— especially with an eight year old taking in the production with me. Too many distractions, I thought. The simple set and the lush vineyards, a brilliant green under the setting sun, only added to my preconceived angst . Yet […]
Bottom?
New homebuilding continues to languish in the County Building in the County seems to have found a bottom—halting, if not reversing, several years of declining home starts in the County. From a high of $46.1 million in new building in the first half of 2008, the County saw just $21.7 million worth of work permitted […]
Radio waves
Community station sets ambitious programming goals Incorporate? Find a frequency? Apply for a licence? Check all that off as having been done. And now the fun begins for “92.3 County FM,” as it will be known, the proposed community radio station to be based in the County. The fun? Develop 120 hours per week of […]
Deep doo doo
Municipality takes control of new Picton sewage plant Nearly a decade after the municipality began planning for a new sewage treatment facility in Picton, local municipal officials joined, MP Daryl Kramp and the head of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities on Tuesday to officially open the new facility. Likely fewer would have predicted in 2003 […]
Every breath you take
County resident medals twice at Canada Transplant Games Garry McNamee was just a month or so from succumbing to pulmonary fibrosis— a disease that robs its victims of breath. In time the scarring and stiffening of breathing passages causes lungs to fail. The Wellington on the Lake resident had been waiting for a lung transplant […]
Our daily bread
Pursuing life in the County—one loaf at a time When he steps out of the 140-year-old barn that now houses an artisan breadmaking facility, Henry Willis pauses to gaze across the wide valley that stretches before him—tidy fertile fields punctuated by woodlands and a few homes and farms. The creek that winds through the farmland […]