Author Archives: Mary Thomas

Thousands of people have been picking up their evening meals at the Salvation Army in Belleville every month, during the COVID pandemic. Director of Community and Family Services Connie Goodsell tells...

A project is underway to boost the image of a live theatre in Belleville's downtown. The plan to make Pinnacle Playhouse more noticeable to the public involves installing a large marquee on the front ...

Work is beginning this week on a major traffic roundabout between Tyendinaga Township and Lennox and Addington County. Roads Supervisor John Farrell tells Quinte News work is underway and it should be...

Hastings County has won a battle with the province, renewing the rules regarding how properties may be severed for building units. Property owners should soon have a change in the way they can build o...

Hastings County is taking part in the CAMSAFE program with Belleville police, registering the locations of security cameras. A report to Hastings County Community and Human Services Committee on Wedne...

A mobile isolation unit may soon be set up in Belleville's downtown area. An isolation centre was established last year at the former Quinte Secondary School but that location will soon be unavailable...

A system is being devised to provide a list of the names of the homeless in Hastings County. Director Erin Rivers told a meeting of the Community and Social Services committee on Wednesday that the na...

Hastings County Long Term Care officials say there's a problem in getting staff registered for COVID-19 vaccine appointments. Long Term Care Director Debbie Rollins told a meeting of the Long Term Car...

Hastings & Prince Edward non-profit CEOs and leaders will have a chance to participate in a six-month training program to help strengthen skills needed for non-profits. United Way Hastings and Pri...

A major $1 million expansion is going ahead for the Asphodel-Norwood Community Centre, thanks to federal and provincial funding. The Community Centre expansion project will construct a 3,500 square fo...