Author Archives: Mary Thomas

Belleville's West Zwick's Park is in line for a major retrofit if all goes well with a grant application. West Zwick's Centennial Park was built as a federal government 1967 centennial project. It was...

The QUINTE CRAFT:OKTOBERFEST is getting a second chance to get the city of Belleville on-side for its proposed event in the downtown. President John Alexiou of the Quinte Restaurant Association appear...

Quinte West is experiencing a building boom as it heads into the fall. With still nearly four full months to go in 2016 the city of Quinte West is soaring ahead in building projects throughout the cit...

A new program aimed at preventing opioid drug overdose will be launched in the Quinte area this fall. The Hastings Prince Edward health unit is rolling out a program aimed at addressing what it calls ...

The Hastings and Prince Edward health unit is throwing its weight behind plain packaging for cigarettes to cut down on smoking. Program manager Roberto Almeida reminded the board that smoking is the n...

Children in daycare and kindergarten programs in the Quinte area will receive free dental fluoride this year. The provincial government's expansion of a no-cost health unit dental program means the he...

The Hastings Prince Edward Board of Health has made a major change in its workplace insurance coverage. Finance Chair Councillor Jack Miller says there's been a concern for a number of years that the ...

Plans for a commercial storage business in Belleville's Thurlow ward, using railway containers, have been sent back to the drawing board. When the application for the site at 970 Highway 37 came befor...

A Military Resource Centre and a day care nursery are in the plans for Belleville's east end. Plans had been announced earlier in the year by the Trenton Military Family Resource Centre for a satellit...

Tweed is looking to the province to help with a speeding problem in the town. According to the chair of the public works committee the speeding problem is mainly caused by out-of-town traffic making i...