Coming Home

A County boy who started a website design company in Texas, is opening an office in Picton.
Bruce Crowe has opened a small sales and project management office for his firm, Cypress Interactive. The technology company, started in 2003, has built over 200 websites, and employs 12 full-time designers and programmers.
Bruce Crowe is the son of well-known County farmer Lloyd Crowe.

Ontario PC Leader Visits Belleville

Tim Hudak is promising improvements to health care and shorter wait times for people in Quinte looking for space at a long term care home. The PC leader is in Belleville to speak to the Rotary Club but stopped by for a visit on the Lorne Brooker Show on CJBQ. He says they need to make sure those who are in long term care homes and those who need the spots get them. Hudak adds the root of the problem is while there is plenty of money going into health care it isn’t going to front line services or long term care.
Hudak says too much money is being wasted on the Local Health Integration Networks which are anything but local and a new layer of fat middle management. Hudak says as premier he would scrap the LHIN’s and put every penny into front line health care.

Rock 107 Noon News – Jan 31, 2011

Rock107 Noon News – Jan 31, 2011 by Nooozman

Turn down the music

The love of loud music has resulted in criminal charges against a Madoc man.

Central Hastings O-P-P responded last evening to a complaint about a neighbours’ dispute and blaring music at an apartment building on Seymour Street West. Police arrested a man for mischief, but he was uncooperative, and resisted, assaulting an officer. Forty-seven-year-old Dartt Macpherson was then charged with assault with intent to resist arrest and mischief, and will appear in Belleville Provincial Court on February 17th.

Drug and weapon charges west of Marmora

A Warkworth man faces charges following the seizure of a knife and drugs west of Marmora.

Central Hastings O-P-P stopped a vehicle on Terrace Road, and found the weapon and a small amount of marijuana and cannabis resin. Forty-five-year-old Kenneth Yelland was charged with two counts of possession of drugs, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose and unauthorized possession of a weapon. He will appear in Belleville Court on February 17th.

Cramahe CUPE dispute update

The Ontario Labour Relations Board is expected to make a decision next week on how many Cramahe Township municipal employees can join the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

Twenty-five of the 34 non-administrative workers cast ballots on January 19th in a certification vote, with 14 in favour and four opposed, and seven votes not counted because they were challenged by either the union or the township. CUPE official Debbie Oldfield says both sides still haven’t reached an agreement on the seven, so the issue will go to the O-L-R-B on February ninth if it isn’t resolved by then. The workers needed only 50 per cent plus one of the votes cast in favour to become part of the union.

Robberies pretrial date set

A pretrial will be held on February tenth for a Trenton man charged with two armed robberies.

Twenty-three-year-old Christopher Walker was arrested by Quinte West O-P-P on December seventh. The Byron Street Mac’s Milk store had been held up the previous evening, and the Ultramar Gas Station on Trenton-Frankford Road was robbed early that morning. Walker was charged with two counts each of robbery, breach of probation and wearing a face mask while committing an indictable offence. The pretrial date was set at Walker’s video remand appearance in court last Thursday.

Highway 62 reopens near Foxboro

Highway-62 near Foxboro has reopened at the scene of a house fire believed to have been deliberately set..

The Fire Marshall’s Office and Belleville City Police are investigating the blaze in the two-storey home near the Dugout North sports bar just south of Foxboro. Our newsroom has learned a man suspected of starting the blaze is in custody with minor injuries in hospital…but, police aren’t commenting further.. The home was destroyed, resulting in a loss of two-to-three-hundred-thousand dollars, but no fire cause has yet been released. The highway was shut down for about eight hours, until shortly after nine o’clock this morning.

Man charged with impaired near Colborne

The O-P-P knew there was something wrong when they got a report about a vehicle headed the wrong way on a Highway 4-0-1 ramp near Colborne.

An officer responded early yesterday morning after getting a complaint about the wayward car at the Percy Street exit. The driver, a 50-year-old Courtice man, was taken to the detachment for a breath test, and charged impaired driving and driving with more than the legal amount of alcohol in his blood.

Eastern Ontario Mayors meet in Kingston

About 20 Eastern Ontario Mayors, including John Williams of Quinte West and Peter Mertens of Prince Edward County, have met in Kingston, their first gathering since last fall’s municipal election..

Quinte West mayor John Williams chaired the morning summit at city hall, as part of a meeting to bring strength in numbers when it comes to lobbying senior governments for more funding. The mayor says there are common challenges they’re going to face over the next four years in office. Williams also said there has been a lot of support from the provincial and federal governments for the infrastructure issues they face together, but there are still challenges in making sure the two senior levels of government remain aware of local needs.