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No exams for local high school students this year
High school students in both the local public and Catholic school boards will not be writing exams. Both the Hastings Prince Edward and Algonquin and Lakeshore Catholic District School Boards say they...
David Foot Apr 30, 2020 Assia Takkal / CC
RELEASE: ALCDSB Director of Education pens letter to graduating students
Dear Grade 12 students and Parent/Guardians, When we began the 2019/2020 school year, we could not have imagined your graduating year to be this challenging. On behalf of everyone at the Algonquin and...
David Foot Apr 30, 2020
Three arrested after drug busts in Belleville and Stirling
Police have seized cocaine, cash, a prohibited weapon and other drug-related items, after raiding two homes in Belleville and Stirling. Members of the Belleville Police and OPP Emergency Response Team...
David Foot Apr 30, 2020
SIU: Belleville Police not responsible for woman's broken wrist
Ontario's Special Investigations Unit says there are no grounds for charges against Belleville Police after a woman broke her wrist during a shoplifting incident this past March. The woman had been he...
David Foot Apr 30, 2020
Elexicon Energy suspends planned distribution rate increase due to COVID-19
The company that provides hydro to the City of Belleville says it is postponing a planned 1.7% distribution rate increase until at least November 1 of this year. Elexicon Energy says the move is to he...
David Foot Apr 30, 2020
PEC Council to hold special meeting with request to limit incoming travellers and yard sales
Prince Edward County Council will hold a special virtual meeting tomorrow to address two pandemic-related issues. Council will look at one resolution to ask the province to discourage people from trav...
David Foot Apr 29, 2020
Quinte West committee wants to move forward with RFP for tourism strategy
Even with all of the uncertainty due to COVID-19, Quinte West's Economic Development and Tourism Committee is still directing staff to start putting together a request for proposals, for a new tourism...
David Foot Apr 29, 2020 Downtown Trenton (File photo: Tim Durkin/Quinte News)
Committee recommends raising land prices in two Quinte West industrial parks
The cost of buying land in two of Quinte West's industrial parks is going up. The Economic Development and Tourism Advisory Committee decided on Wednesday to increase the cost of buying land in both t...
David Foot Apr 29, 2020
HPE Public Health reports no new confirmed COVID-19 cases, but one more death
While there are no new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in our area today, Hastings Prince Edward Public Health says there has been one more death due to the virus, bringing the total to three. Health Unit...
David Foot Apr 29, 2020
Lake Ontario water levels expected to peak below 2017 and 2019 highs
There is some good news when it comes to water levels and the potential for serious flooding on Lake Ontario. The International Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Board says the latest models show that w...
David Foot Apr 28, 2020