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COVID-19 vaccinations begin for high priority staff at Quinte Health Care

COVID-19 vaccinations have started for high priority staff at Quinte Health Care hospitals. A clinic has been set up in the education centre at Belleville General Hospital to vaccinate high priority s...

David Foot Feb 25, 2021 Jayla Kirkham, a Registered Nurse who works at QHC Trenton Memorial Hospital, receives her vaccination from Sarah Leitch, a Registered Practical Nurse from Hastings Prince Edward Public Health. (Photo: Submitted / QHC)

Four new cases and a new outbreak reported in HPE, two new cases in Northumberland

Hastings Prince Edward Public Health is reporting four new cases of COVID-19 today, including an outbreak at a workplace in Centre Hastings. No other information on the outbreak has been released, oth...

David Foot Feb 25, 2021

16 businesses apply to run summer pop-up shops in Belleville

The application window for expressions of interest to take part in the Pop-Ups on the Bay initiative this year is closed. Development and Tourism Coordinator Elisha Purchase says they sent out 36 info...

David Foot Feb 25, 2021

Belleville EDDC recommends hiring new staffer in Economic Development Department

Belleville's Economic and Destination Development Committee is recommending that council approve the hiring of another staff member, to take some load off current workers in the Economic Development D...

David Foot Feb 25, 2021 Belleville's Economic and Destination Development Committee meets virtually, on February 25, 2021. (Photo: YouTube / BellevilleCityHall)

Break and enter to Grafton business

On Thursday February 25, 2021 at approximately 1:50 am, members from the Northumberland Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to an alarm at a business located on County R...

David Foot Feb 25, 2021 (Photo: Dominic Owens)

Two suspects charged in another Project Renewal bust

Two people have been charged after another project renewal investigation in Belleville on Wednesday. Members of the joint forces investigation, which includes Belleville Police, OPP and various specia...

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

Impaired driving charges after cars hit snowbanks in Quinte West

Two similiar crashes in Quinte West in recent days have both led to impaired driving charges. The first happened on Monday night around 7:30 p.m., with OPP officers responding to Hollandale Avenue in ...

David Foot Feb 24, 2021

Four new cases in HPE, three new in Northumberland, two in local schools

Hastings Prince Edward Public Health is reporting four new cases of COVID-19 in the area today and three recoveries, for a total of 14 active cases. Three of the new cases were transmitted through clo...

David Foot Feb 24, 2021

Province investing in accelerated PSW program for Ontario colleges

The Ontario Government is trying to address a need for more personal support workers by investing $115 million in training at colleges across the province, including Loyalist. The Accelerated PSW Prog...

David Foot Feb 24, 2021 The main entrance to the Kente Building at Loyalist College in Belleville. (Photo: David Foot / Quinte News)

RELEASE: Local print shop and Rotary Club "back the build" for new PEC hospital

Even though fences are the theme of the Picton Rotary 2021 cash calendar, the decision to support the new hospital campaign wasn't something a local business owner needed to sit on the fence about. He...

David Foot Feb 24, 2021 L-R: Heather VanVlack, owner of Printcraft; Briar Boyce, senior development officer with the PECMH Foundation; Nancy Parks, Back the Build campaign co-chair; Shannon Coull, executive director of the PECMH Foundation; John Clarke, president of the Rotary Club of Picton and Rick Jones, Picton Rotarian. (Photo: Karen Whitfield)