Picton Gazette Express Final 2024

December 27, 2024

The Christmas Issue

Councillor Sam Grosso represents Ameliasburgh

Council’s Planning and Development Committee voted 8-4 to approve Councillor Sam Grosso’s hotly contested application for a live music venue in a converted stable on his Rednersville Road property in Carrying Place.

Sam’s Place has been operating without a permit in the middle of a neighbourhood of 80 residences zoned Rural Residential, where extra uses normally only extend to such things as a bed and breakfast or home daycare. Nearby homes are just 60 or 120 metres away. 37 deputants, most, though not all, opposed, came to Council to ask that the proposal be turned down.

The Regent Theatre appoints film industry veteran John Galway to the role of Executive Director.

Mr. Galway was thrilled to see the job ad in the Gazette last month advertising a full-time leadership position. “That’s the kind of role where you can really dig in deep,” he says. “I am looking forward to helping make The Regent everything it can be over the next few years, building on its clear and important role as a community hub and one of the anchors of Main Street.”

“I see all kinds of ways in which we can grow our audience and have people come to the theatre more often. One of the unique things about The Regent is that it can host a variety of performance forms — live music, theatre, comedy, and, of course, all kinds of film.”

“We are all so dedicated to building community here in the County, collaboration is top of mind for me as it benefits us all. Sharing our audiences, resources, and talent just seems to make sense.”

Celebrated Canadian artist Ian Carr-Harris’s Tracings launches at Oeno Gallery

It is not often that visual artists are also writers. I picked up this volume feeling intense curiosity about its subject: contemporary Canadian art, which can be indecipherable to an outsider. If, like me, you could use a guide, here is one.

If you have a rural mailbox, your Gazette will be delivered by a contracted delivery team. If you live in town, get your Gazette at any of a large number of new boxes out on the streets, including outside every post office.

Op-Ed: A Newfoundland Christmas for one come from away

In which our foreign correspondent, based in Newfoundland, considers what it means to be come from away.

The Weekend Ticket

It’s a quiet week in the County.

Voidfest Saturday 28 December 11-5 on Picton Main Street.

The Regent Theatre presents Wicked beginning 27 December through 2 January.

New Year’s Eve at The Cape. Sold Out!

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