Author Archives: Mary Thomas

People have begun to take advantage of a new service from Belleville Public Library. Late last fall, the library decided to reach out to the public by placing a return bin at the Quinte Sports and Wel...

  A major road construction project in Belleville's east end has now gone out to tender. The project is to connect Haig Road with Station Street, creating a major through roadway in the east end....

Belleville city council has received an update on the Rogers Hometown Hockey event coming to the city next month.. At Monday night's council meeting, Belleville Chamber of Commerce CEO Jill Raycroft o...

Belleville has decided to hold the police services tax rate for Ward 2 at the present rate, but not without some opposition at Monday night's city council meeting. Council made the decision on a recor...

Police Chief Ron Gignac told council the new facility is needed to allow his officers to work at provincial standards. "I look at things with this building vital to making Belleville the safest commun...

Residents of Northumberland County, within the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge health unit, have the chance to vote on health initiatives the Ontario government might include in its next budget. Thes...

Quinte Health Care will lose its chief of staff this spring. QHC acting board chair Stuart Wright has announced that Dr. Dick Zoutman has taken a position with the newly-amalgamated Scarborough Rouge ...

Hastings County Warden Rodney Cooney says improved internet service will be the main focus of Eastern Ontario municipalities at the Rural Ontario Municipalities Association conference beginning Monday...

Local resident Cecile Flynn, who joined the MPPs at Hastings Manor, says her husband is now a "resident not a patient" at Belleville General Hospital, awaiting a long term care bed, because there is n...

The Eastern Ontario Wardens Caucus has set two major priorities for 2018. At its 2018 inaugural meeting, two priorities were established for the coming year, the first being the cellular and public sa...