Author Archives: Mary Thomas

The annual Remembrance Poppy campaign, supporting veterans, has had another successful year. Each year The Royal Canadian Legion conducts the Poppy campaign to raise funds in support of veterans and t...

Some good news for the Belleville Firefighters Toy Drive, it will be moving into a new headquarters-warehouse location. Toy Drive spokesman Ryan Turcotte appeared before city council this week to give...

Belleville has taken the first step in the addition and renovations at the Yardmen Arena in the Quinte Sports and Wellness Centre. Director of Recreation Mark Fluhrer told city council Monday night th...

Belleville has reached an agreement that gives it one section of the fairgrounds property. After a lengthy negotiation period, city council has approved the deal at $600,000 that, in part, ends the 99...

Hastings County is being asked to stay on-track with its social housing rebuild plans. The Hastings-Quinte Social services committee will recommend that council approve going ahead with Phase Two of t...

Motorists travelling Belleville's Dundas Street West this week will have noticed a huge crane at the demolition site of the old Bay Bridge/CP Overpass. Deputy Director of Engineering Ray Ford says the...

A Quinte West councillor is calling for a review of how Hastings-Quinte Emergency Services buys its ambulances. The Emergency Services committee had before it a recommendation that it approve $750,000...

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

Canada signing CETA, the trade agreement with Europe, is good news for the Quinte area. That's the opinion of the executive director of the Quinte Economic Development Commission. Chris King told the ...

Loyalist College's new president, the first week on the job, says the quality of the college drew her to the Quinte area. President Ann Marie Vaughan, who stepped into the job following the resignatio...