Author Archives: Amanda Smith

A number of unauthorized items were recently seized at Collins Bay Institution. Correctional Service Canada staff report 456 grams of tobacco, 783 grams of marijuana and 118.5 grams of shatter were se...

H.J. McFarland Memorial Home is taking extra precautions given the rapid increase in COVID-19 cases in the community. Effective 12:01 a.m. on Friday, December 24, the home will only allow essential vi...

Eight inmates at Warkworth Institution have COVID-19. Correctional Service Canada staff say they are closely monitoring the situation and measures are in place to minimize the spread of the virus. To ...

The City of Belleville has been named the newest Bee City by Bee City Canada, an organization created to inspire cities, towns, First Nations, schools, businesses and other organizations to take actio...

The Hastings Prince Edward District School Board is confirming more COVID-19 cases among students. The board states five students at Sir John A. Macdonald Public School and one student each at Trenton...

Due to league COVID-19 protocols affecting the Belleville Senators and Toronto Marlies, the American Hockey League has announced that their game in Toronto, scheduled for Sunday, December 26, 2021 has...

The County is closing all indoor recreation facilities and town halls effective Tuesday, December 21, in response to the increasing number of COVID-19 cases in the region. The municipality will reeval...

Mass COVID-19 vaccination clinics are being held for the next few weeks at Loyalist College. As there is now lab confirmation of the first cases of the highly-transmissible Omicron variant in the regi...

The Prince Edward CountyOPP has recently welcomed two officers to the County. Provincial Constable Ethan Barink has aspired to be a police officer for quite some time. He has worked as a Provincial Pa...

A Deseronto man is $100,000 richer. Keith Sero matched six of seven Encore numbers in order last month. He says he was confused when he first used the ticket checker at the store but then was very sur...