Author Archives: Mary Thomas

Canada's oldest Convention and British Empire Cheese Show gets underway in Belleville this week. Secretary of the Central Ontario Cheesemaker Association, Wendy Gibbons, says 31 factories from across ...

Plans are underway to increase the social living in Hastings County's two Long Term Care homes, Hastings Manor in Belleville and Centennial Manor in Bancroft. Director of Long Term Care Debbie Rollins...

The $213 million project to increase cellular service in eastern Ontario, the latest project of the Eastern Ontario Regional Network, is moving ahead. It is a four-way deal, with the the Eastern Ontar...

Hastings County is throwing its support behind a bid by Loyalist College to establish a Technology Access Centre. County CAO and member of the college board of governors, Jim Pine told Hastings County...

The success of Belleville's bus with an app, a North America first, has prompted the Transit Committee to ramp up the service. The bookings on the bus with the app have become "so much so fast" that t...

Belleville Director of Engineering Rod Bovay (File photo: Mary Thomas/Quinte News) Belleville is getting set to demolish four privately-owned buildings. The four buildings are basically abandoned smal...

A bid to restrict parking on one of Belleville's east end streets has failed to make it through the process. Earlier this year city council put restrictions on parking on some streets near Belleville ...

Belleville's campaign to convert its street lights to LED lighting has just brought in a new reward. The city recently converted more than 3,600 street lights to LEDs that consume less energy, have a ...

Belleville's campaign to convert its street lights to LED lighting has just brought in a new reward. The city recently converted more than 3,600 street lights to LEDs that consume less energy, have a ...

Belleville will develop a policy regarding the use of animal traps for fur-bearing animals, including the use of leg holding traps. Council made the decision following a presentation from the Ontario ...