Picton Gazette Express: Vol. 3 No. 20

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Council resolves to press the issue — but the province must draft the legislation

The Gazette sits down with the County’s Federal Liberal MP, Chris Malette, to discuss his first year in office.

2026 PEC Jazz Fest launches at the Waring House

The Crap Shooters at the PEC Jazz Festival launch. (Photo: Brian Legere)

Four years of complaints have done little to move the councillor to acknowledge the competing claims of his positions: at once newspaper publisher and elected representative

We’re multimedial! Print, digital, and on video, with links posted below.

Stunning properties across the County open for viewing Saturday and Sunday

The Weekend Ticket

Inaugural PEC Wedding Show at Compass Rose Suites. Saturday 23 May 11-3pm. Tickets $20.

Oeno Gallery features Jennifer Hornyak, Gathering Colour.

The Regent presents Shakespeare in Love, Monday May 25 at 7pm.

Artist Julie Seddon’s exhibition County: The Way Home continues in the County Arts Lab in the Armoury, Unit 2E, 206 Picton Main Street. To June 17th.

A Path Forward exhibit at Macaulay Museum features Angela Wiggins. To 10 June. Angela Wiggins is a contemporary Anishinaabe visual artist working between symbolic tradition and contemporary abstraction to explore Indigenous continuity, intergenerational memory, and the politics of visibility.

Base31: The Commissary is open this weekend. Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

It’s Market Season. Wellington Community Market is 10-4 on Saturday. The Eddie Farm Market Saturdays 9-1:30. Picton Farmers Market is 9-2 every Sunday.

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