Author Archives: Mary Thomas

Plans are getting underway to mark the role played by the Hastings Prince Edward Regiment in World War Two. The Hasty Ps were part of the Invasion of Sicily, Code Named Operation Husky, in which the a...

The effort to attract doctors to the Quinte area has taken a new turn in the Quinte West - Brighton area. Quinte West, Brighton and the Trenton Memorial Hospital Foundation have teamed up to provide a...

Hastings Prince Edward Board of Heath welcomes the news that Premier Doug Ford has backtracked on budget cuts to public health for 2019. Public Health Board Chair Jo-Anne Albert tells Quinte News "Thi...

Members of the public will have a chance to see what the province has in store for Highway 401 in the Belleville area, and a local bridge as well. The Ministry of Transportation had started an environ...

Belleville is stepping up its doctor recruitment program. Monday night, city council approved extra funding to double the number of doctors it will try to bring to the city this year. Mayor Mitch Panc...

The fate of Belleville's historic Memorial Arena as a hockey facility could be set this summer. The cost of resurrecting Memorial Arena as a viable ice facility comes with a $23.6 million price tag, a...

Hastings County is calling on the federal government to come up with its contribution toward the proposed new Eastern Ontario Regional Network Mobile Broadband project. In its special resolution on Th...

An accident in Belleville turned out alright thanks to a couple of rescuers. The director of Gleaners Food Bank, Susanne Quinlan, is recovering after being rescued from a fall into a cistern near the ...

Hastings County has joined the campaign to keep the local public health unit in an eastern Ontario merger, rather than a western one proposed by the province. In his letter to Minister of Health and L...

Hastings County has settled a two year contract with its full-and-part-time staff members. It covers 160 inside and outside staff who are members of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, Local 4...