Author Archives: Mary Thomas

A former Belleville businessman, who pleaded "no contest" to 10 charges earlier this year, has now been sentenced in a Detroit, Michigan court. Jim Sinclair, the former owner of the Bakelite property ...

A young Belleville man, charged in a home invasion investigation, has been sentenced to half a year in jail. Tuesday in a Belleville court, 21 year old Joseph Hagan was handed the term, along with a y...

Some new steps are expected to be takenthis year in the ongoing preparation for a residential development on the former industrial Bakelite property in Belleville's east end. A major portion of the cl...

Hastings-Quinte joint social services committee has taken more steps to get rid of a number of its single family houses. In a bid to cut costs and become more efficient, the social services department...

As we reported earlier this week the federal funding for the Hastings-Quinte paramedicine program, which helps people with health issues stay in their own homes, ran out at the end of March. Acting ch...

The good news for Belleville taxpayers is basically no increase in city taxes for 2016 but the tax bill depends on the individual assessment and the education tax. City council spent the last day of i...

Belleville will take a look at the municipal services it offers and how taxpayers pay for them. Councillor Egerton Boyce raised the issue during city council's last day of budget debate. Boyce noted t...

Concerns about hiring practices at Belleville city hall prompted a councillor last night to call for a review of those practices. More than a dozen members of the public and city staff in the audience...

A bid to provide extended hours of free parking in the Riverside Parking lot in Belleville's downtown failed to win support at last night's city council meeting. The city is preparing for phase 2 of t...

Local officials are working to extend the pilot paramedicine house-call program in the Quinte area and are looking to the Ontario government to help out. The federal funding for the Hastings-Quinte pa...