A bouquet for Mother's Day by Jodi Shuster
OPP Report makes clear: 2025 was a very safe year to live and work in Prince Edward County
Innovative, engaging festival brings music into the kitchen — and adds storytelling in good measure
Canada is used to being considered small, a marginal player on the world stage — part of the G7, yes, but not one of the members with real heft. And yet. It is now a leader in a global resistance movement.
“Seasonal appeal,” says Visit the County's Executive Director, “means all four seasons.”
The Community Services, Programs and Initiatives department has, together with the County Arts Council and The County Foundation, devised a plan to direct a portion of the municipality’s tourism revenues to fostering the arts. The plan makes perfect sense. Our arts organizations not only make this a flourishing, vibrant and utterly unique place to live, but draw great quantities of high-spending visitors.
Fledgling tourist organization focuses on local initiatives — and gets the word out
Keeping an eye on development at Camp Picton
View collectionThe first of the proposed “constellation” of villages is on the horizon
The 40-year career of Tyendinaga-based David R. Maracle can’t be contained within a single discipline
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.
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.
Development Projects Around the County
View collectionAbout 400 concerned residents attend standing-room-only town meeting in Wellington
Amidst all of this, the non-confidence motion, and the granting of Strong Mayor powers to the beleaguered Mr. Ferguson that followed fast on its heels, the CAO resigned. Suddenly, the popcorn one might have been enjoying tasted stale.
Gone, but not forgotten
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