Author Archives: Mary Thomas

Belleville is partnering with a local developer for the construction of a $1.6 million watermain extension on Sidney Street. The extension would run from Maitland Drive northerly, and easterly to Hamp...

Belleville has approved the first of the city's casino funding to go to social infrasturcture groups. On Monday night, city council had before it the grant committee's recommendations for the grants, ...

A lengthy, sometimes prickly, discussion broke out at Belleville city council Monday night during a businessman's objections to proposed parking restrictions near his business. Richard Courneyea of Si...

Opioid deaths across Ontario are on the increase and Hastings and Prince Edward counties are recording some of those deaths. Last year, there were 976 opioid-related deaths across Ontario, nine of tho...

Public Health Inspector Aptie Sookoo says the ticks are travelling further north. Sookoo told the board that inspectors are checking with summer camp facilities to ensure they know how to deal with th...

And Crowe says, "the winter wheat is growing well and looking really good."

A staff report to the committee indicates the land is designated a city centre significant heritage resource. The property has been declared surplus and is listed for sale by the city. It contains two...

  A proposal to develop a medical marijuana production facility in Belleville's Northeast Industrial Park has passed the first hurdle. Global Citrus Group plans to develop a 200,000 square foot f...

The issue of poverty and how to overcome it was the focus of a Bay of Quinte candidates meeting in Belleville Thursday night. It was sponsored by the Hastings Prince Edward Poverty Roundtable and held...

Belleville is throwing its support behind The Orange Campaign, a United Nations campaign to eliminate violence against women and girls. Jan Sosiak of Grandmother Advocacy Network and Aruna Alexander o...