Author Archives: Mary Thomas

A young woman begins a stand-up paddleboard trip Wednesday as an awareness campaign about the plastic pollution of Lake Ontario. It is all part of the Love Your Lake program of the not for profit, A G...

The health unit servicing Northumberland County will be opening its health unit offices, following the COVID-19 shutdown. The main offices of the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge Heath Unit, located i...

COVID-19 caused a setback to some city of Belleville projects, but they are catching up now. The city had three major projects underway, and some going out to tender when the coronovirus lockdown took...

Friday marks the second annual Cancer Wellness Awareness Day. Jennifer May-Anderson is Executive Director of Hospice Quinte. May-Anderson says,"When statistics show us that one in two Canadians are ex...

Hastings County will promote a billion dollar plan that would provide Eastern Ontario homes and businesses with ultra-fast internet service. Council has decided to support the plan that would provide ...

Hastings County wants Health Canada to change the way it hands out licences to pot growers. At a virtual meeting of Hastings County Council on Thursday, Tweed Mayor Jo-Anne Albert said Health Canada g...

The design plans for what Belleville's former historic Memorial Arena could look like in the future are now made public. Taskforce Engineering Director of Engineering Hilary Murphy tells Quinte News t...

A Belleville councillor calls the city's killing of beavers that were causing flooding in the city's east end, as "troublesome." At this week's virtual meeting of city council, Councillor Kelly McCaw ...

Belleville residents feeling the summer heat will be able to find a little relief this summer. City council decided at its meeting this week to open the Quinte Sports and Wellness Centre as a cooling ...

Belleville wants to make sure a new access at the city's east end is included in the province's future plans for Highway 401 in this area. The preliminary plan, presented to city council at its Monday...