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February 27, 2025
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February 26, 2025

No Variance Required

Eight Grain Silos Coming to Picton Bay

News
February 26, 2025

The Picton Gazette is a finalist in four categories — Arts, Environment, Photography, and Online Reporting — in the Ontario Community Newspaper Association’s Better Newspapers Competition for 2024

News
February 26, 2025

Cold Creek subdivision approved for Waring’s Creek, averting OLT case

Culture
February 27, 2025

Darkness is visible in Hitchcock’s collaboration with Thornton Wilder, Shadow of a Doubt

News
February 26, 2025

Neighbours oppose plans for high-density affordable housing at the former school site

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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.

Culture
February 19, 2025

Ancient hockey lore and remembering the Macs part of History Night at The Andrew

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Special Collection — Picton Terminals

Keeping an eye on activities on Picton Bay

Reporting, editorials and letters

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News
January 22, 2025

Expansion Lands

MZO would more than double Picton Terminals

News
February 26, 2025

Eight Grain Silos Coming to Picton Bay

Letters
February 19, 2025

Readers on Picton Terminals, building of grain silos on the port, and strategic voting dreams

News
January 29, 2025

Rock quarrying not necessarily compatible with the historic White Chapel

News
January 22, 2025

A private suit has convinced a Justice of the Peace there is enough evidence to proceed with charges for illegal excavations

Special Collection — Base31 Collection

Base31

Keeping an eye on development at Camp Picton

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News
November 13, 2024

Village A

The first of the proposed “constellation” of villages is on the horizon

Editorial
December 4, 2024

That a crew of placemakers, designers, and developers are intent on reviving the old Camp Picton, turning it into the centrepiece of a series of villages offering multiple new ways of living here, is an unprecedented turn of events.

Editorial
October 9, 2024

Until CAFF gets traction and support, as the forum that bridges the Toronto International Film Festival and the International Festival of Authors — in a setting of outstanding natural beauty, resplendent with award-winning wineries, restaurants, and boutique hotels — it’s going to take a village. This village.

Music
August 27, 2024

Base31's Rock the County Music Festival did exactly what it set out to do.

Features
August 21, 2024

Base31’s first village is close to becoming a reality

NOIR

The Gazette's Books on Film series is back — in black and white

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Special Collection — Development Underway

Keeping an eye on new builds

Development Projects Around the County

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News
August 21, 2024

Infrastructure Issues

About 400 concerned residents attend standing-room-only town meeting in Wellington

News
January 22, 2025

Council will seek a legal opinion on 2008 Minutes of Settlement with the WCIA

News
January 15, 2025

Council’s Planning Committee introduces a two-step process — while opportunities for public consultation diminish.

Editorial
December 4, 2024

That a crew of placemakers, designers, and developers are intent on reviving the old Camp Picton, turning it into the centrepiece of a series of villages offering multiple new ways of living here, is an unprecedented turn of events.

News
February 12, 2025
<p>An apartment complex proposed for Nicholas Street. (SVN Architects)</p>

Affordable Housing Incentives

Council waives taxes at affordable housing properties

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Obituaries

Gone, but not forgotten

August 16, 1924 - February 7, 2025
July 8, 1923 - February 7, 2025
August 21, 1941 - February 1, 2025

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