Author Archives: Mary Thomas

The Eastern Ontario Mayors' Caucus will take issues regarding mental health directly to the Ontario Minister of Health during the Association of Municipalities of Ontario virtual meetings this week. B...

The mayor of Quinte West is not participating in this week's meeting of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario since he refuses to pay the registration fee. Mayor Jim Harrison says he knows ther...

It's getting down to the wire for companies making bids on building the ultra-fast internet service for Eastern Ontario. Hastings County CAO Jim Pine, who has been steering the project, tells Quinte N...

Over the next year, the technical institute on Tyendinaga Territory will be celebrating a major step. This month, First Nations Technical Institute launches its 35th anniversary celebrations with even...

Hastings-Quinte paramedics continue to provide extra services during the COVID-19 pandemic. In June, the province provided $663,600 to Hastings County to support the temporary pandemic pay for emergen...

School immunizations, cut short by COVID-19 last spring, are getting back on track. As the school season adapted to the pandemic, public health officials were unable to complete the second dose of the...

Recent wet weather hasn't been much help to the farmers in Prince Edward County after the long hot dry spell. It's too little, too late. That's according to Lloyd Crowe District 13 Director of the Gra...

Hundreds of area residents have signed a petition against a proposal for a new Potters Creek residential development in Belleville.. The application for rezoning a parcel of land in the Avonlough Road...

Opposition to a new hotel planned for Belleville was presented at Monday night's virtual meeting of the Planning Advisory Committee. The 95-suite Tru By Hilton would be located on Millennium Parkway. ...

The 100-year-old holiday time children's gift appeal in the Greater Napanee area, Tree of Hope, will look quite different this year. It's because of COVID-19. There will be no collection of toys becau...