Author Archives: Mary Thomas

Hastings County is fighting a legal ruling that often makes municipalities partially liable in some court cases, for instance, for vehicle accidents on their roadways. Warden Rick Phillips has written...

Loyalist College students and the college student-run news service have received honours recently. Six of the college's 2020 graduates placed first in three-of-four Ontario Community Newspaper Associa...

Hastings-Quinte Paramedic Services is participating in the provincial management program, moving patients out of greater Toronto to areas across Ontario. A report to the Emergency Services Committee o...

Residents of Northumberland County have more opportunities to get their COVID-19 vaccine shots. The Haliburton, Kawartha Pine Ridge District Health Unit has announced it will be receiving more vaccine...

Tweed is making a bid to have the proposed new paramedic station located in the village. In a letter to the Hastings-Quinte Paramedic Services and Hastings County, Mayor Jo-Anne Albert points to a 1.9...

Hastings-Quinte paramedics will soon have special protective equipment as they deal with the COVID-19 pandemic services. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the paramedics have been using masks, but while of...

The home building industry in the Quinte area is booming but there are some significant issues as well. As Quinte Homebuilders Association President Jon Van Huisen said to Quinte News, "it's been a cr...

Northumberland County officials are pleased with the new 911 model-of-care which ensures paramedics have more options to provide treatment to patients. The province launched this new system providing ...

Hastings Prince Edward Medical Officer of Health is encouraging people to "keep trying" to book their COVID-19 vaccine appointments. Dr. Piotr Oglaza made the statement following a meeting of the Boar...

Public health officials are working closely with Quinte Health Care to deal with the COVID-19 outbreak in the Intensive Care Unit of Belleville General Hospital. Medical Officer of Health Dr. Piotr Og...