LETTER: More must be done for healthcare in Ontario
To the Editor: It is no secret that our health-care system is in disarray, due to the severe shortage of doctors. Kudos to the County team for their recruiting efforts…
Week-45-2023
Harry Evans, “’Arry sez” 11 November, 1983
Put the clocks back Oct. 30 and luxuriated in bed the extry hour. Next morning on rising found we’d had the first killing frost of the year. It was a…
POLICE BLOTTER: Nov. 8
• A Belleville man is facing drug trafficking, breach of recognizance and weapons charges after a midday traffic stop in Bloomfield last week. Adam Dunn, 28 from Belleville was charged…
Living History for 8 November 2023
1983: Columnist Harry Evans reflects on the season Put the clocks back Oct. 30 and luxuriated in bed the extra hour. Next morning on rising found we’d had the first…
Senior Life – Nov. 8
Have you started your Christmas shopping? Having trouble deciding what your 90+ year old aunt would like this year? Another knick knack or outfit sometimes just doesn’t seem the right…
INSIDE THE LIBRARY: Nov 8
The expanded Picton Branch Library has meant that we have the capacity to offer more programs than ever before. Some of these are organized by the library and others are…
LETTER: Kudos to Adam Hambly
I would like to pass on kudos to Adam Hambly for the job he is doing to recruit more doctors to PEC. He has accomplished more in this area in…
LETTER: Reader appreciates Halloween night coverage
Having read the Hallowell Howler’s account of the Zombie attack in Hallowell, I rushed over to the Macaulay House graveyard to thankfully find that peace and serenity had returned. With…
LETTER: Fishers respond to CWS
On October 4, 2023 the Picton Gazette reported statements by Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) spokesperson Samantha Bayard regarding the Commercial Fishing Village Heritage Area at Prince Edward Point…
EDITORIAL: In memoriam
In honour of Remembrance Day, I tell the story of a single soldier. It tells of a different kind of war heroism: the difficulty of returning home, and of continuing…