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HPEDSB approves draft budget for 2021/22 school year

Staff with the Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board are estimating a bit of a jump in the board's 2021/22 overall budget. At a special meeting on Thursday night, trustees approved an opera...

David Foot Jun 25, 2021 (Photo: David Foot / Quinte News)

UPDATE: Section of Dundas Street East closed due to natural gas leak

UPDATE (5:10 p.m.): Belleville police say the eastbound centre lane on Dundas Street is now open and the eastbound curb lane will remain closed until the construction can be resolved. They also say th...

David Foot Jun 23, 2021

RELEASE: BGHF begins Love Locks campaign

Our healthcare team has been working hard over the past year to care for the community through the pandemic. The Belleville General Hospital Foundation Love Locks installation is a commemorative oppor...

David Foot Jun 23, 2021 (Photo: Submitted / BGHF)

Belleville launches ward boundary survey with decision on changes coming later this summer

The City of Belleville wants residents to have their say on a proposal to change the city's ward boundaries from two, to four. The idea was brought forward by Mayor Mitch Panciuk at the council meetin...

David Foot Jun 23, 2021 Belleville Council will consider starting the process of moving from a two ward electoral system to a four ward system, at its meeting on Monday May 10, 2021. Here is a proposal of what those ward boundaries would look like.

No new cases, thousands more COVID shots given, in HPE

It's now been about a week since a new case of COVID-19 has been reported in Hastings Prince Edward, with no new cases again Wednesday. There are still two active cases in the region, but no patients ...

David Foot Jun 23, 2021

More charges laid against Manitoba murder suspect who was found in PEC

More charges have been laid against a Manitoba man who was wanted on murder charges there and was found in Prince Edward County late last week. Eric Wildman was arrested by Ontario Provincial Police a...

David Foot Jun 22, 2021

Quinte Secondary School redevelopment plan moving forward

Trustees with the Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board have agreed to move forward with the redevelopment of the former Quinte Secondary School. At Monday's meeting, board members gave the...

David Foot Jun 21, 2021 The former Quinte Secondary School. (Photo: HPEDSB)

HPEDSB names new Director of Education

The Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board has named its new Director of Education. Katherine MacIver will take on the role as of July 1, for a five-year term. MacIver brings more than 25 ye...

David Foot Jun 21, 2021 Katherine MacIver. (Photo: submitted)

REPORT: Apsley medical clinic closed after shooting threat

There are reports that a medical clinic in Apsley has been closed after threats were made against a doctor and staff. Global News Peterborough is reporting that the North Kawartha Health Centre is clo...

David Foot Jun 21, 2021

RELEASE: Planting hope in 2021

Ben Clarke is helping Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital show off nature's best shade of yellow. Taking part in the Hope is Growing campaign to help lift spirits during the pandemic, Clarke, a sta...

David Foot Jun 21, 2021 (L-R) Pictured at the Hope Garden at QHC PECMH from left: Shannon Coull, executive director of the PECMH Foundation; Ben Clarke, with the Wentworth Landscapes team; Liam Filjeski with the Wenworth Landscapes team; Nancy Parks, Back the Build campaign co-chair; Ally Davies with the Wentworth Landscapes team; Dennis Grant with the Wentworth Landscapes team and Scott Wentworth, owner of Wentworth Landscapes. (Photo: Submitted / PECMHF)