Author Archives: Mary Thomas

Resident Chris Prud'homme told the committee there needed to be an acoustical study and a privacy fence if the project goes ahead. Staff members reported to the committee that when Deerfield Park was ...

A Veridian Connections crew made its way into the United States on the weekend to help restore electrical power after last Friday's storm in Connecticut. Veridian's contingent of seven experienced lin...

A two day conference of the National Farmers Union opens in Belleville on Thursday. Members of the Farmers Union have some good news as the conference gets underway. The federal government's budget th...

Belleville's lawyer Harry Dahme told the hearing session there was additional sampling on a number of residences, including indoor air sampling and vapour sampling beneath several residences. All part...

A new dispatch pilot project for ambulances could get underway in the Hastings-Quinte and Northumberland-Peterborough area in about a month. Paramedic Chief Doug Socha says it's designed to develop a ...

A Toronto company is planning to establish an educational centre for medical marijuana in Belleville. The project is proposed by Toronto Capital which owns the former Nortel building on Sidney Street....

The move is on to get thousands of Quinte area school children immunized so that they aren't barred from school in a few weeks. In January the Hastings Prince Edward Health Unit sent out notices to 4,...

The outbreak of influenza this winter has still not yet cleared out of the Quinte area. The Quinte area flu season has been a relatively mild one, but a number of cases showed up in Long Term Care and...

A special Algonquin Child and Family Centre will be established in the north of Hastings County as part of Ontario's commitment to Reconciliation with Indigenous People. Hastings County has received f...

Hastings County council is joining the fight against a provincial government pilot project that would increase firefighter response to medical calls. The province is proposing to fund two pilot projec...