Author Archives: Mary Thomas

The Hastings and Prince Edward Board of Health has set its budget in the face of reduced provincial funding. Today, the board approved a 2016 budget at $15.4 million with a $274,000 drop in provincial...

The founder of a long-time Belleville insurance company, David Mackay, has died. David Makay, opened Mackay's Insurance Brokers Inc. in Belleville in 1977, initially in Corbyville then moving to the D...

The Progressive Conservative MPP for Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington has expressed his support for the Ontario government's latest move in connection with the trials of two people in connection ...

The trial of a former Belleville businessman facing numerous charges in a Detroit court came to a surprise ending. Jim Sinclair, the former owner of Bakelite property in Belleville, originally faced 2...

More development in the future on Belleville's Bell Boulevard. Belleville's planning committee had before it tonight a rezoning application for a site at 773 and 777 Bell Boulevard. The applicants, Sh...

The Gleaners Food Bank "Down Mexico Way" gala raised thousands more money than organizers expected. Spokesperson Suzanne Quinlan says the total raised was $23,000, more than the $15,000 to-20,000 expe...

Hastings County will try to see what it can do regarding concerns by Stirling-Rawdon that it is being treated "unfairly" in connection with provincial funding. Mayor Rodney Cooney told Hastings County...

A report by the Eastern Ontario Wardens' Caucus says the lack of access to energy, and its high cost, are hampering industry growth in the region. In presenting the report to Hastings County council, ...

Hastings County is improving high-speed internet connections to sites across the county. The new agreement just approved with Bell Canada will see improved high-speed connections at 14 municipally-own...

Hastings County will apply to the Ontario Provincial Police for pricing on a county-wide policing contract. The county surveyed its 14 member municipalities and they've all agreed to checking out how ...