Author Archives: Mary Thomas

  Officials continue to note deficiencies in the new Hastings Prince Edward Board of Health headquarters in Belleville, but say they are not major ones. Chair of the accommodation committee, Jim ...

There may be a bit of a downward trend in connection with the high rate of teenage pregnancies in Hastings and Prince Edward counties. Hastings Prince Edward Medical Officer of Health Dr. Richard Scha...

Local public health officials have declared Prince Edward County an endemic area for Lyme disease. Medical Officer of Health Dr. Richard Schabas told the Hastings and Prince Edward Board of Health Wed...

Officials are not giving up the flood warning in the Quinte area. Quinte Conservation says the warning, given on Sunday, remains in effect for the Moira, Napanee, and Salmon River watersheds. Water Re...

  The Bay of Quinte is the second-best spot for the cost of doing business, in a long list of countries The Quinte Economic development Commission received a report showing the Bay of Quinte come...

Residents in the area of a proposed apartment building in Belleville presented their objections at tonight's planning committee meeting. They packed the city hall council chambers last night. The resi...

Belleville is about to receive its first application for a medical marijuana dispensary and there seems to be a number of unanswered questions about it. The city has set out the rules for medicinal ma...

The local public school board and its supply teachers have reached a tentative contract. The Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board and the Hastings Prince Edward Occasional Teachers' Local ...

Two weeks after the bombings in Brussels, a former Belleville resident brings us up to date on life in that city. Jeanie Keogh, a former resident of Carrying Place who works in media in Brussels, says...

Recycling at local apartment buildings should soon see some improvements. Quinte Waste Solutions has received 50% funding, up to an upset limit of $15,000 from the Continuous Improvement Fund to impro...