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Volunteer gardener has dug in for a decade to beautify Picton Main
Prince Edward County Mayor Steve Ferguson presented a bouquet of kind words, and a Civic Award, to Arlene Wright at Tuesday night’s council meeting. Wright was being honoured for her volunteer efforts over a decade to adopt nine municipal and non-municipal gardens, the downtown planters, and the creation and hanging of evergreen boughs throughout Picton […]
County Meals on Wheels marched in well before international program
While March 2024 marks the 24th annual International March for Meals campaign, the Prince Edward Community Care is celebrating 44 years of providing hot Meals on Wheels – delivering since 1980 in the County. “Our amazing volunteers deliver nutritious meals, short and friendly visits and safety checks that enable seniors to live nourished lives in […]
Section of Millennium Trail closed this week
Portions of the Millennium Trail will be intermittently closed for repairs between Monday, March 11 to Friday, March 15. The area affected will include the trail between the Picton LCBO and Bloomfield. The closures are required to allow trail surface repairs. Residents are asked to avoid active work areas.
Emergency watermain repairs on Wellington Main
Emergency watermain repairs are under way on Wellington Main Street between Cleminson and McDonald streets. Repairs began Saturday, March 9 at 9 a.m., with an expected completion time of 6 p.m. same day. Traffic on Wellington Main will be reduced to one lane during construction. Traffic control will be in place. Motorists are asked to […]
Women’s Institute ends 40 years of art and craft shows; moving to new vision
Last year’s 40th anniversary Art and Craft Sale will be the last hosted by the Prince Edward District Women’s Institute. The annual all-day first Thursday in August event drew thousands of visitors – by foot, vehicles and bus loads – to the Picton fairgrounds to peruse wares from more than 150 crafters and artisans. It […]
Bid for the Build Art Auction – tickets now on sale
Join the Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital Foundation (PECMHF) for a special, one-night-only fundraising auction of contemporary and historical fine art – raising funds to purchase a Computerized Tomography (CT) Scanner for the County’s hospital. On Saturday, June 1, art enthusiasts and supporters will ‘Bid for the Build’ viewing more than 75 curated works of […]
County residents ‘totality’ interested in coming solar eclipse
By Sharon Harrison It turns out there are a lot of people interested in learning about the upcoming total solar eclipse, so much so, that folks were turned away from a full house meeting, but quickly a second session was scheduled an hour later – again to full capacity at the Picton library. The friendly […]
First bursary honours hospital employee working toward nursing degree
CHEERS! to Mikayla Williams-Mills, a Demorestville resident who works at Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital as a Registered Practical Nurse. She has received the first $2,500 bursary from a new partnership between the Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital Foundation and County Guys Real Estate Group. The partnership is to provide an annual bursary for Quinte […]
Indigenous artist leads conversation circle in A Path Forward exhibit space
Story and photos by Sharon Harrison In the final instalment of the annual Flashback February event hosted by County Museums, Picton’s Macaulay Church welcomed JP Longboat with ‘Canoe Stories’. Running concurrently at the museum is the A Path Forward exhibit, which Jessica Chase, museums curator, explained is an expansion of the Indigenous History exhibition that […]
Expect construction work on County Road 22 for most of the year
Traffic disruptions and lane restrictions are to be expected for most of the year on County Road 22 between London Avenue and Airport Lane (at Picton Heights) beginning Monday, Feb. 26 to facilitate the installation of water and sanitary infrastructure. The project is expected to be completed by Nov. 30, 2024. Most of the work […]