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Memorial donation to Back the Build

A Wellington resident has made a $50,000 memorial donation to the Back the Build campaign for a new Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital. Betsy Sinclair made the donation through the Rotary Club of ...

Alana Cameron Dec 15, 2022 Pictured from left at the Carousel Canada Equine Riding Centre where Betsy keeps her horse in Trenton is Shannon Coull, executive director of the PECMH Foundation; King Arthur, thoroughbred; Betsy Sinclair; Nancy Parks, Back the Build campaign co-chairperson and David Smith, past president of the Rotary Club of Wellington Foundation. (Photo: Briar Boyce)

New Warden, Deputy Warden elected in Northumberland County

Northumberland County has a new warden. Cramahe Township Mayor Mandy Martin was elected at Wednesday's inaugural meeting of Northumberland County Council. Martin is a resident of Colborne, now serving...

Alana Cameron Dec 14, 2022 Northumberland County Warden Mandy Martin. (Photo: submitted)

100 Men Who Care Quinte support Christmas Sharing Program

The Christmas Sharing Program gladly accepted a donation from 100 Men Who Care Quinte Wednesday afternoon. A cheque for $6,800 was presented to program coordinator Hazel Lloyst. With more donations st...

Alana Cameron Dec 14, 2022 Jae Cheyne (l), representing 100 Men Who Care Quinte, presents a cheque to Christmas Sharing Program coordinator Hazel Lloyst, December 14, 2022.

Environment Canada special weather statement; snow starting Thursday

Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement with a snowstorm set to hit the region later this week. A strong low pressure system is expected to affect southern Ontario later this week wi...

Alana Cameron Dec 13, 2022 A snow squall hits Wellington on January 29, 2019. (Photo: Submitted / Susan Butler)

Phone, email services down for PEC

(As of 2:18 p.m. Tuesday, December 13, 2022) The County of Prince Edward says it is currently experiencing an outage of its phone and email services due to damage to critical infrastructure. 911 servi...

Alana Cameron Dec 13, 2022

Bancroft man wins playing ENCORE

A Bancroft resident is $100,000 richer after a lottery win. Terry Young won playing ENCORE in the September 23 LOTTO MAX draw. Young, who works in the logging industry, says he regularly plays the lot...

Alana Cameron Dec 13, 2022 Terry Young of Bancroft won $100,000 in the September 23, 2022 Encore draw. (Photo: OLG)

HPEPH weekly respiratory illness/COVID update

Influenza activity remains high and while COVID-19 cases are down, there have been two more deaths according to Hastings Prince Edward Public Health. In its weekly update, Public Health reports there ...

Alana Cameron Dec 13, 2022

Cash, cocaine seized during traffic stop in Tweed

A 39-year-old man has been charged after police seized drugs and cash during a traffic stop in Tweed. Central Hastings OPP stopped a vehicle Monday afternoon. The driver was known to police and his dr...

Alana Cameron Dec 13, 2022 Central Hastiings OPP seized cash, drugs (including cocaine and crystal methamphetamine) and suspected drug paraphernalia during a traffic stop in Tweed on Monday, December 12, 2022. One person was arrested. (Photo: Central Hastings OPP)

Belleville Council rejects motion to change meeting start time

Belleville City Council will continue to start its meetings at 4 p.m. Councillors rejected a motion from Paul Carr calling for a 5 p.m start to their bi-weekly meetings. Noting that almost all other m...

Alana Cameron Dec 12, 2022

Health and Homelessness Summit coming in 2023

A summit being planned for early 2023 will aim to address the homelessness and mental health crisis in the City of Belleville. Belleville Council voted in favour of a motion by Councillor Carr Monday ...

Alana Cameron Dec 12, 2022