Editorial
Water Worries
Picton’s Water Treatment Plant was built at Chimney Point in 1928 and is scheduled to reach end-of-life in 2031. The plant is so archaic the County is at the point of machining replacement parts as most are no longer available.
CountyFirst: it calls itself the Prince Edward County Residents Association. It's anonymous, artificial, and unaccountable.
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.
It may just be our best kept secret, unknown even to those who live here.
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.
Readers Write: on the MZO request for Picton Terminals, on Bill 5, and on the arts in the County
None of these festivals, launches, lunches, concerts, fundraisers, or celebrations makes any money, but they are the reason many of us are here, and many more are on the way.
It was not a promise to send the Royal navy should the occasion arise, but it was certainly a flex of the possibility.
Readers write: to our MP, about the Resistance, and on development.
Readers respond to the dropping of the charge against Picton Terminals, and Charlie Angus's visit to Picton.
It is essential that all new, large-scale construction in the County be built not to rely on fossil fuels.
Readers write about Ford's sucker punch to municipal development, raising the ships, and hostility to those from Away.
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