Author Archives: Mary Thomas

Belleville has decided that a first step in a bid to recruit nurse practitioners will be to get the provincial government to fund more positions for them. Earlier this year Councillor Paul Carr had as...

Belleville has put its water buggy to good use this week, handing out some water to a neighbouring community in a boil water situation. Belleville is lending a helping hand, in fact, giving hundreds o...

The percentage of people on social assistance in the Hastings-Quinte area who are earning money from a job is higher than the provincial average. A recent report to the Community and Human Services co...

Colton says he looks forward to retirement when he can do "whatever" he wants. You can hear more of the Chris Colton interview by Host Mary Thomas on Newsmaker Sunday, this Sunday at the noon hour, on...

Also at council this week, Susan Sweet was named 2018 Senior of the Year.

A new provincial program will help victims of violence obtain housing under a new Special Priority Program. The program was outlined at a meeting of the Hastings-Quinte Community and Human Services Co...

An apartment building with affordable housing units, proposed for Belleville, may receive some funding through Hastings-Quinte social housing. The Community and Human Services Committee decided Wednes...

Pine says he doesn't know why the private transfer companies, sometimes used by hospitals, can't handle all these transfers. #2 PINE TRANSFER Emergency services officials will meet with the hospitals ...

Belleville could have its first medical marijuana production facility by the end of this year. The proposal to develop a 200,000 square foot facility on University Avenue, in the former Exxon Mobil bu...

TASO The Warden of Hastings County Rodney Cooney says he was depending on his team to win the day since he only played golf occasionally. WARDEN COONEY Last year the charity golf challenge raised abou...