Author Archives: Mary Thomas

The Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit is informing the County of Haliburton, the City of Kawartha Lakes, and Northumberland County that Environment Canada is forecasting hot, humid...

During the long weekend, police made an arrest regarding an impaired driver at a South Algonquin campground. As a result of the investigation, 18-year-old Aiden Lucas Cournyea of South Algonquin Towns...

A driver faces a long list of charges following a traffic complaint in the Bancroft area. On June 23, members of the Bancroft OPP were called for a traffic complaint by the public, regarding a possibl...

Statistics show that local hospital services have the highest rate of emergency services in Ontario. At a meeting of Hastings County Council on Thursday, CAO Jim Pine reported 70 per cent of the elder...

A report to Hastings County indicates a large number of people do not have access to family doctors. The executive director of Gateway Community Health Centre Mayo Hawko addressed Hastings County Coun...

The Belleville Chamber of Commerce is outlining three special weekends coming up in July. They start on Saturday, Canada Day, with West Zwick's Park opening with the Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast, followe...

Another Camp Molly firefighting training centre is planned for the Quinte area in July. The four-day camp will run primarily at the Hastings and Prince Edward training centre in Trenton. Belleville De...

This spring, on one day during the month of May, 13 birders on 13 properties in Northumberland County, counted birds. Doug McCrae, of the Northumberland Land Trust Board of Directors, tells Quinte New...

Loyalist College has introduced a new name for the college's Indigenous Centre. The new name means "we gather together as a community" in Mohawk and was selected following consultation and conversatio...

A new report by the health unit that serves Northumberland County sheds light on the significant health risks posed by climate change in the health unit's area. The report by the Haliburton, Kawartha,...