Author Archives: Mary Thomas

Belleville has awarded the contract for a major expansion of its public transit building. Monday night, city council approved the tender from the only qualified bidder, Gay Company Ltd. out of Courtic...

Belleville is sending to Queens Park a long list of issues it wants the province to address in its plan to widen Highway 401 in this area. In his report to council Monday night, Manager of Engineering...

The recommendation before council was that it approve a $3.5 million tender submission for the extension. During a lengthy debate, Councillor Egerton Boyce said he wouldn't support it, calling it "a b...

The Eastern Ontario Leadership Council, that advances Eastern Ontario economic development opportunities, has received an award from the Economic Developers Council of Ontario. The Leadership Council ...

There will be a chance to celebrate winter this weekend. The 12th annual FrostFest will be held in Batawa on Saturday, Quinte West community engagement officer Hannah Brown says the city will be provi...

A special training session for Ontario police officers, regarding the upcoming change in marijuana legislation in July, will be held in the Quinte area. Public health nurse Kerri Jianopoulos told the ...

Hastings Prince Edward Public Health has approved its 2018 budget which has been frozen by the provincial government for three years. It represents a 1% hike in the levy for participating municipaliti...

Public health officials agree the present influenza vaccine is far from 100% effective, but there may be some good news in the pipeline. Prince Edward Hastings Acting Medical Officer of Health Dr. Ian...

The comments are in and it looks like a hit for the electric bus that ran Belleville streets for a couple of months this winter. Late last year Belleville Transit tested an ebus, a battery-electric ve...

  Trent Port Marina in Quinte West showed a jump in the number of boaters last year, and attracted seasonal boaters from as far away as the Greater Toronto Area. Most of the seasonal boaters were...