Rising from the ashes: Ralph’s recovering from electrical fire
CHRIS FANNING STAFF WRITER Early in the morning hours of Friday, April 14, Ralph’s Meat Market on Main Street suffered a “heartbreaking” electrical fire. The local butcher shop has been…
May 18, 2023
Gala nets windfall for Picton branch expansion project
KAREN VALIHORA STAFF WRITER Saturday evening’s Swing into the Future Gala celebration raised an extraordinary $52,000 for the Picton Library expansion and renovation project. Tim Jones, CEO of PEC…
Gazette error on 49th Parallel “inexcusable”
Please show a correction in next week’s Gazette. The majority of our mutual boundary is the 49th parallel not the 48th parallel as printed in this week’s paper (A memo…
LETTER: Regent creates workaround for those with cash
It has come to the attention of the board that a number of community members would like to see the return of cash to the Regent Theatre. Believe us, so…
Stories from our past-May 18, 2023
Each week, the Gazette looks back on stories from the past. Here is what happened this week, by year… 1923 The first baseball practice this year resulted in about 15…
EDITORIAL: On buying a newspaper
A couple of years ago, the owner of a small Alaska newspaper said he would give away The Skagway News to a person committed to living in town to run…
Canada’s oldest community newspaper acquires new publishers
JASON PARKS EDITOR The owners of the Picton Gazette, Prince Edward County’s historic community weekly published since 1830, are pleased to announce the sale of the newspaper their family has…