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Skating turns 60 in Prince Edward County

Prince Edward County Skating Club celebrates 60 years of skating

News
April 16, 2025

Prince Edward is on the list of municipalities Premier Ford has designated for a Strong Mayor

News
April 16, 2025

Frustrations in Wellington over Main Street detour erupt in a Non-Confidence motion directed at the Mayor

Provincial
April 16, 2025

Chris Malette, Liberal candidate for the Bay of Quinte, drops by the Gazette office to discuss the issues

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Editorial
April 16, 2025

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Pierre Poilievre shows he’s Trump-loyal by being a Trompe-l’œil.

Editorial
April 16, 2025

Alison Kelly on the non confidence motion and Chris Spavins on strategic voting.

News
April 16, 2025

County Library Authors Festival offers a full weekend of Literary Life

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Special Collection — Visit the County

Promoting Tourism in Prince Edward County

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News
April 16, 2025

“Seasonal appeal,” says Visit the County's Executive Director, “means all four seasons.”

Editorial
November 20, 2024

The Community Services, Programs and Initiatives department has, together with the County Arts Council and The County Foundation, devised a plan to direct a portion of the municipality’s tourism revenues to fostering the arts. The plan makes perfect sense. Our arts organizations not only make this a flourishing, vibrant and utterly unique place to live, but draw great quantities of high-spending visitors.

News
July 17, 2024

Fledgling tourist organization focuses on local initiatives — and gets the word out

Special Collection — Base31 Collection

Base31

Keeping an eye on development at Camp Picton

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News
November 13, 2024

Village A

The first of the proposed “constellation” of villages is on the horizon

Culture
March 12, 2025

The 40-year career of Tyendinaga-based David R. Maracle can’t be contained within a single discipline

Editorial
December 4, 2024

That a crew of placemakers, designers, and developers are intent on reviving the old Camp Picton, turning it into the centrepiece of a series of villages offering multiple new ways of living here, is an unprecedented turn of events.

Editorial
October 9, 2024

Until CAFF gets traction and support, as the forum that bridges the Toronto International Film Festival and the International Festival of Authors — in a setting of outstanding natural beauty, resplendent with award-winning wineries, restaurants, and boutique hotels — it’s going to take a village. This village.

Music
August 27, 2024

Base31's Rock the County Music Festival did exactly what it set out to do.

News
April 16, 2025

Year Round Destination

“Seasonal appeal,” says Visit the County's Executive Director, “means all four seasons.”

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Special Collection — Development Underway

Keeping an eye on new builds

Development Projects Around the County

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News
August 21, 2024

Infrastructure Issues

About 400 concerned residents attend standing-room-only town meeting in Wellington

Editorial
March 26, 2025

Readers write about threats to the CBC, and the right kind of development.

News
January 22, 2025

Council will seek a legal opinion on 2008 Minutes of Settlement with the WCIA

News
January 15, 2025

Council’s Planning Committee introduces a two-step process — while opportunities for public consultation diminish.

Obituaries

Gone, but not forgotten

January 18, 1942 - March 31, 2025
December 10, 1937 - January 26, 2025

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Skating turns 60 in Prince Edward County

Prince Edward County Skating Club celebrates 60 years of skating

News
April 16, 2025

Prince Edward is on the list of municipalities Premier Ford has designated for a Strong Mayor

News
April 16, 2025

Frustrations in Wellington over Main Street detour erupt in a Non-Confidence motion directed at the Mayor

Provincial
April 16, 2025

Chris Malette, Liberal candidate for the Bay of Quinte, drops by the Gazette office to discuss the issues

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