CR49 rehabilitation project
Working group seeks provincial and federal support Enough is enough,” says Mayor Steve Ferguson. He was speaking about County Road 49, the 1998 gift from the provincial government that keeps on taking. The road is a ribbon of deteriorating concrete that links the County to Highway 401 in the northeast quadrant. It was built in […]
The Mess Hall Sessions
County Stage Company offers musical shows at Base31 The County Stage Company, formerly known as Festival Players, is offering a series of musical shows in the newly renovated Sergeants Mess Hall at Base31. There are four shows on the schedule, each with two performances. The shows have been curated by actor, musician and playwright Beau […]
Library Gala
Celebration as Library meets fundraising goal The sounds of swing music, jazz tunes and romantic ballads from the Forties could once again be heard emanating from the Sergeants Mess Hall at Base31 as the County Library celebrated reaching its fundraising goal for the library expansion project. It has been a sixyear journey to arrive at […]
County Housing Plan
Council supports physical shelter space for those in need At its meeting on Tuesday night, Council unanimously supported a motion put forward by Mayor Steve Ferguson that asked the Affordable Housing Corporation to search for a physical shelter space and the appropriate funding streams to support it. This came after Council reviewed a brand new […]
Surfacing and managing
Council approves $1.8 million in road resurfacing in 2023 It’s a big hole. Two years ago, the County commissioned another comprehensive road needs study. It found that about half of the asphalt roads and nearly 60 per cent of the surface-treated roads, about 482 kilometres in total, require some preservation, rehabilitation, or reconstruction work. It […]
Modern Renaissance
Painter John Lennard exhibition at 2gallery John Lennard said his first foray at painting came when he was a fouryear- old. His mother had purchased a large abstract painting and the next morning she found him painting over the piece. “I’m just trying to make it better,” he explained. It would be a number of […]
Master of the Leanic
Tim McCormack continues a tradition going back five generations For Tim McCormack, life doesn’t get any better than being out on the lake in his fishing boat, the Leanic. He says that it’s his “happy place”. “I’ve been doing this since I was knee-high to a grasshopper,” he said. “My father was a fisherman and […]
Net vandalism
Nets damaged at Prince Edward Point Bird Observatory Last Saturday morning, three people ignored the signs restricting entry to the net area at the Prince Edward Point Bird Observatory (PEPtBO) and began cutting the delicate netting in a misguided attempt to free the birds that had been captured. When confronted by bander- in-charge Phillip Mercier, […]
Maison Depoivre reopens
Art gallery has a new home in renovated space The former Officers’ Quarters at Camp Picton (now Base31) has been renovated to become the new site of the Maison Depoivre Art Gallery. Maison Depoivre co-creators Christophe Doussot and Vincent Depoivre arrived in the County in 2012 and operated a bed and breakfast just outside Bloomfield. […]
Talking
Picton Terminals and County to enter settlement talks Picton Terminals and Prince Edward County were expected to be before a Justice in Ontario’s Superior Court in August, but according to a recent release, the two parties have agreed to engage in discussions that may lead to a negotiated settlement. In October 2020, at a planning […]