Author Archives: Mary Thomas

Income security was the number one issue at a Seniors Town Hall in Belleville Tuesday featuring the federal Minister for Seniors. More than 100 people packed the venue at the Quinte Sports and Wellnes...

Hastings-Quinte Emergency Services is moving ahead with keeping its drone in the air and operating with license. Hastings County has been operating its drone as part of a federal research initiative. ...

Quinte area public health officials are concerned about cuts being made to provincial funding of public health services, beginning this year. The Progressive Conservative government is set to cut 35 h...

A 24-hour run, in support of people in the Quinte area with acquired brain injury, is set to go ahead rain or shine this weekend. About 70 people in the Quinte area attend programs through the Brain I...

A program to encourage the planting of native trees on urban and rural properties gets underway next weekend in Belleville and Hastings County. Seedlings for a variety of species, paid for by each mun...

Ontario's Progressive conservative government says it is looking at merging ambulance services, and that's a surprise to the local Quinte area ambulance service. The government says it plans to stream...

Hastings County, which is Service Manager for the provincial child care programs locally, has concerns about some Ontario government recommendations regarding child care. In a letter to the Minister o...

Latest statistics indicate the Hastings County Employment Connection has been filling jobs from the Ontario Works caseload. Comparisons with January 2018 to February of this year show a drop of about ...

There is some good news for a Belleville housing project that includes affordable housing. Director Erin Rivers told the Hastings County Community and Human Services on Wednesday that the county had r...

The results are in from an ambulance dispatch research project in the Hastings-Quinte and Northumberland-Peterborough area. They were presented to a meeting of the Hastings-Quinte Emergency Services c...