Picton Gazette Express: Vol. 2 No. 28

July 24, 2025

County Stage launches County’s first Theatre Festival

Toronto’s Liberty Entertainment Group proposes event venue and hotel at beleaguered Lake on the Mountain site

Writer Maureen Jennings finds inspo in the County

Editorial: Water Worries

If Council waffles on a new regional treatment plant in Wellington, sourcing and treating water from busy Picton Bay will become an environmental nightmare. It’s just a matter of time. Ballast, toxic sediment disruption, and a genuine risk of spills from cargo and container ships at Picton Terminals and Heidelberg Cement. Leachate from the dump and the cemeteries into Marsh Creek and into the Bay. Algae blooms. Invasive species. 

Summer means Culture in the County

Properties in downtown Picton and Wellington feature this week

The Weekend Ticket

County Stage opens Flowers at Mount Tabor Friday 25 July 7:30pm.

Bittergirl: The Musical continues at The Regent.

Comedy Country presents Middle Raged at The Regent Saturday 26 July 7:30pm.

BIGLAKE presents Silent Film in the Barn Saturday 26 July at 9pm. Buster Keaton’s The General screened from film reel with live piano accompaniment by Ilya Polataev. One of a kind experience.

Rick Sheppard’s Drifters are at the Drill Hall Saturday 26 July at 7:30pm. From 1966 To 1970, Rick Sheppard recorded as a Drifter — Rick is the last living member of the 1960’s group who recorded on The Atlantic Records Corporation Label. Songs: “On Broadway,” “Under the Boardwalk,” “Save the Last Dance for Me,” and many more.

Jeff Young presents on the Avro Arrow free flight model tests at Point Petre. Mariners Park Museum, Sunday 27 July 2-3pm.

Wellington Community Market is at the United Church on Wellington Main Street, every Saturday morning 9am-1pm all summer long.

Prince Edward County Markets hosts the Wellington Farmers Market at the Eddie Hotel and Farm Saturday May 17 9-1:30pm.

The Picton Town Hall Farmers Market runs Sundays 9-2 at 2 Ross Street, Picton all summer long, rain or shine.