Author Archives: Mary Thomas

  The municipality of Stirling-Rawdon is celebrating 2016 as a very successful year. Mayor Rodney Cooney outlines a list of achievements including the long-awaited Ridge Road reconstruction and a...

Belleville reached some major milestones in 2016. Mayor Taso Christopher says the city successfully completed 10 Build Belleville projects "on time and on budget" this year. taso-l-back Mayor Christop...

In a push to get young people working at summer jobs during Canada's 150th anniversary year, Canada Summer Jobs Program is open for business. The program creates jobs for full-time students aged 15 to...

Hastings-Quinte Social Services continues to assist some residents of a Belleville apartment building who had to be evacuated November 4 because of a fire. Thirty-seven people were rescued from the se...

Hastings County council will be asked to increase its funding to Habitat for Humanity and cut its funding to its own public home ownership assistance. At its meeting Wednesday, the Hastings-Quinte soc...

After a year in operation, the Hastings County "situation table" has handled 30 social disorder cases. The officially-named Community Safety and Well Being committee was launched in 2015 following con...

The United Way of Hastings and Prince Edward is "struggling" to reach its goal for 2016. The United Way serves more than 40 agencies in two counties and two cities. It had set its goal at $2.1 million...

Belleville's Sports Hall of Fame, inactive for the past six years, is back on track. President Dave Mills told city council Monday night that the group has been meeting since September and it is selec...

Councillor Egerton Boyce said "We'd be crucified" if it went to Quinte West. Councillor Mike Graham said he felt council was "being held hostage" with the last minute request, and there was no guarant...

                        Justice Richard Byers officiated at the swearing-in ceremony of Hastings County's new warden Thursday. Justice Byers...