Picton Gazette

09/26/2024

06/18/2024

Fall Fair Cover Contest is 28 June!

06/18/2024

The Picton Gazette celebrates Frank and Arlene Wright. https://www.bing.com/search?q=https://pictongazette.ca/post/change-of-hands-at-w-h-williamson-co&count=1

06/17/2024

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06/12/2024

Prince Edward County Chamber Music Festival announces its 23rd season, which includes free tickets for those under 25 https://pictongazette.ca/post/musical-chairs

06/12/2024

A celebration of the Hospital Foundation's intense fundraising for the new build https://pictongazette.ca/post/an-enchanted-evening

06/12/2024

1954: R.C.A.F. Pilot Killed, Second Rescued As Plane Crashes, Burns

[First report: 9 June 1954] A pilot was killed and second occupant badly hurt yesterday when an R.C.A.F. plane crashed and burned, four miles north of Wellington at 20 after 3 yesterday. Aircraft landed within 20 yards of King Terry’s home and burst into flames. R.C.A.F. fire trucks and ambulances...

06/12/2024

Reviewed: Orlando. Screens at The Regent on Monday 17 June at 7pm.

Before her adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel Orlando: A Biography, Sally Potter was known as a choreographer, musician, performance artist, and maker of experimental short films. She brought the full array of her talents to this, her first feature film, not only as director, but as co-writ...

06/12/2024

Why worry about a few pesky charges of attempted murder?

There’s just something funny about life in the South, says Cheryl Singer, director of Prince Edward Community Theatre’s latest comedy, The Red Velvet Cake War, which opens at Mount Tabor this weekend. She might be talking about South Marysburgh. Some of the characters in this play, which is set ...

06/12/2024

The Picton Gazette is proud to be publishing the Agricultural Society Fair Book on July 10. We are celebrating with a Cover Contest. Details below. All kids up to and including Grade 6 -- please submit your best ideas!

06/12/2024

Bloomfield Mill Pond is in for some much needed attention https://pictongazette.ca/post/fish-free

06/12/2024

Remembering County farming legend Clifford Foster

A legendary figure in Prince Edward County agriculture has died. Clifford Foster, of East Lake Road’s Fosterholm Farms, passed away at his home on Monday, June 3. He was 93. Clifford and his late wife Margaret Foster, who passed away in 2002, were well known in the local farming community as hard ...

06/11/2024

Council to consider 15-minute parking spaces

15-minute parking is on the agenda for Picton Main Street. The Traffic Advisory Committee is recommending three spots. The problem is not a lack of Main Street parking spots. It’s people hogging them all day. County Drugstore owner and pharmacist Karl Sitarski, along with Scotiabank’s branch man...

06/06/2024

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06/06/2024

EDITORIAL: The IESO predicts that by 2030, 25 per cent of Ontario’s electricity will be generated by natural gas. In 2017 this figure was only 4 per cent.

In January, the Gazette reported that the Greater Napanee Council had approved another gas plant, proposed by Ontario Power Generation (OPG) to expand operations at the Lennox and Napanee stations. That Council also approved proposals for three new Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS). Last month,....

06/06/2024

The Gazette awarded three medals at Ontario Community Newspaper Association 2023 Better Newspapers Competition

The Gazette team made good on several nominations earlier this year at the Ontario Community Newspaper Association 2023 Better Newspapers Competition. The new publishers, who took over in May of last year, netted three medals for the paper in their first foray into provincial competition, and two ho...

06/06/2024

The Normandy Landings in the Picton Gazette, 80 years ago.

Under cover of darkness, Allied forces landed on shore at Normandy Beach in a long planned invasion of France, beginning with a midnight airborne assault against German guns and mines. British, American and Canadian divisions worked together to orchestrate the attack. Guy Black, recipient of the Min...