Author Archives: Mary Thomas

The last winter blast of 2017 didn't blow out Belleville's snowplowing budget. Over the past few years Belleville has maintained a snow clearing budget of $2.1 million. General Manager of Transportati...

The Quinte Economic Development Commission will be working to try to attract more businesses to the Quinte area in 2018. Executive Director Chris King says the aim is also to get people ready to enter...

When the new year rolls around, Belleville will be looking toward its waterfront with development ideas. Mayor Taso Christopher says he expects some design work to go ahead for improvements in two are...

The town of Deseronto is looking back on a successful year with some development happening in 2017. Mayor Norm Clark says about 20 residential houses have been built during the year. Clark says the to...

2017 was a busy year for Marmora and Lake as the municipality completed a number of infrastructure projects. Mayor Terry Clemens says the municipality had its biggest year yet in 2017 with its buildin...

The Quinte Economic Development Commission is looking back on 2017 as a very good year. Executive Director Chris King says the numbers look good for job numbers. LOOK BACK QEDC King did say the Sears ...

The Hastings-Quinte area is sitting above the provincial average in terms of the number of people on Ontario Works benefits who earn some money from employment. The number of people on unemployment be...

Belleville Mayor Taso Christopher listed a number of projects the city completed as he looked back on 2017, which marks the city's 200th birthday. He mentioned The Casino providing money that goes to ...

It's another step in the fight against the use of throw away plastic water bottles, at events in the City of Belleville. This week, city council decided to become a little more environmentally friendl...

Hastings County is taking part in a paramedic services science research program on paramedic services along with NASA and Canadian National Defence. Recently, Chief of Hastings-Quinte Paramedic Servic...