Prince Edward County’s Newspaper of Record
July 10, 2025

On the Cover

Celebrating the Picton Fair Book

News
July 9, 2025

Parrish & Heimbecker grain silos on Picton Bay start to take shape

Art
July 9, 2025

Annual County Arts Council competition offers the largest display of work by local artists

News
July 9, 2025

Big Island resident Terry Sprague recognized by the Government of Ontario.

Features
July 9, 2025

What to do when David Frum comes knocking

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Editorial
July 9, 2025

Even if you are not quite ready to enter an exhibit — a prize yearling calf, a basket of perfect, polished crabapples, or a precious bouquet of carefully tended dahlias — the Fair Book offers something perhaps more important. It’s a guide to how to enjoy the Fair. To appreciate the care that goes into every single competition, by every contestant, in every class and category.

Editorial
June 25, 2025

An MZO, by its very nature, removes municipal jurisdiction. It overrides municipal zoning. If granted, it would establish a Special Economic Zone right on Picton Bay, where the Terminals can do what it likes. Of course, the Terminals has always pretty much done what it likes.

News
July 8, 2025

Mass Timber products from Northern Quebec a key part of new hospital

Living History: 1915 / 1945

1915 / 1945

Wartime Harvests

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Special Collection — Weddings in the County

The Gazette's Special Weddings Issue

Getting Married in the County

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Wedding Wonderland

Prince Edward County is now one of the most sought after wedding locations this side of Martha’s Vineyard

Culture
July 2, 2025

Those dreaming of a European-inspired destination wedding in PEC this summer will have to be flexible

Culture
July 2, 2025

One of the many upsides to getting married in the County is plentiful local, seasonal flowers

Editorial
July 2, 2025

It may just be our best kept secret, unknown even to those who live here.

Special Collection — Picton Terminals

Keeping an eye on activities on Picton Bay

Reporting, editorials and letters

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News
July 9, 2025

Rising from the Surface

Parrish & Heimbecker grain silos on Picton Bay start to take shape

Editorial
June 25, 2025

An MZO, by its very nature, removes municipal jurisdiction. It overrides municipal zoning. If granted, it would establish a Special Economic Zone right on Picton Bay, where the Terminals can do what it likes. Of course, the Terminals has always pretty much done what it likes.

Editorial
May 21, 2025

Crown moves to withdraw the charge against Picton Terminals

News
March 12, 2025

Representatives for Picton residents, ABNA Investments, and the Crown met at Ontario Superior Court March 7 for an initial hearing in Picton Terminals court case

Editorial
February 26, 2025

How does Picton Terminals' rock quarrying relate to the question of a variance for P & H? Perhaps just in the fact that none of the destruction was allowed to enter the consideration of the question at hand. It was, as they say, the elephant in the room.

Patriotic Fervour

Picton cues up Canada Day in style

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Special Collection — Visit the County

Promoting Tourism in Prince Edward County

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News
June 25, 2025

Visit the County presents its 2025 budget

News
June 4, 2025

Council seeks some imaginative ways to spend the hundreds of thousands of dollars sitting in County coffers

Features
May 14, 2025

Regent Theatre to anchor Picton Main from 10am to 10pm every day, all summer long

News
April 16, 2025

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

News
July 9, 2025
<p>From Left Peter Landry, Anne Van Vlack, MP Chris Malette, Terry Sprague, MPP Tyler Allsopp, Mayor Steve Ferguson, Debbie MacDonald Moynes, Barb Procter. (Jason Parks/Gazette Staff)</p>

New County Seniors Centre

Community Care has become a fixture in the everyday lives of County seniors

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Obituaries

Gone, but not forgotten

August 22, 1934 - June 28, 2025
May 6, 1952 - May 29, 2025

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