Author Archives: Mary Thomas

Remembrance Day is being marked in Belleville and across the Quinte area on Saturday. Various branches of the Royal Canadian Legion, along with other organizations, will hold ceremonies at cenotaphs t...

Rural areas of Hastings-Quinte are seeing longer ambulance response times and Centre-Hastings is leading the campaign for change. Over the years, Mayor Tom Deline has often expressed concern about amb...

A program to count the homeless in Belleville is now underway and another program is in the works for next spring. The province has a plan to end "chronic homelessness" by 2025, and one of the first s...

Work continues on demolition of a number of older buildings in the city, as Belleville clears up some land it owns. Property manager Joel Carr-Braint says the city is working to demolish a few older b...

Salvation Army volunteers, with the Christmas Kettles, will get a free ride throughout Belleville thanks to a donation made Monday. Veridian Connections presented the Salvation Army with transit passe...

Two special public health clinics are set for Hastings and Prince Edward County this fall, as part of a pilot project. Program manager Bill Sherlock says the two clinics are aimed at communities that ...

Two Hastings County municipalities have received federal funding to assist them with their asset management. For Centre Hastings it means $36,800 . Mayor Tom Deline says his municipality has $2.5 mill...

The Belleville Police Services Board has been asked to take a second look at the legitimacy of a complaint about comments made by Chief Ron Gignac. The Board said no to the first request. Earlier this...

The dogs and cats at the Quinte Humane Society shelter will be receiving a boost from the Quinte West Tim Hortons Smile Cookie campaign this week. Humane Society Executive Director Frank Rocket says t...