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Quinte West Council cost local taxpayers almost 300 thousand dollars last year. After all expenses and salaries were added up, Quinte West Council had 292 thousand dollars in salaries and expenses. Na...

Occasional teachers with the Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board have reached a 4-year tentative agreement. The 300 occasional elementary teachers are part of the Elementary Teachers' Fed...

Waterfront Festival plans in Brighton are in limbo for the summer of '09. A member of the council, Mary Tadman questioned council, last night, as to why the town decided to spend 85-thousand dollars o...

An important step toward making a nurse practitioner led medical clinic a reality for the Belleville area has been taken. The clinic's organizers have announced the signing of a collaborating physicia...

The cold weather hasn't kept builders from keeping busy over the past month in Prince Edward County. Chief Building Official Garry Davis says 35 permits were issued in February, for projects worth 4.3...

A Campbellford-area man has been charged with assault in Havelock. Peterborough County O-P-P arrested Rick Forestell after a 54-year-old man was hit in the face at a home on Alexander Street late Satu...

A Belleville man has begun a six month jail sentence for his part in an assault and a home invasion. Twenty-four-year-old Michael Livingston pleaded guilty at his pretrial in Belleville provincial cou...

An A-T-V that caught on fire caused a big thick black cloud of smoke over Rossmore yesterday afternoon. Prince Edward County Firecrews responded, at 4 o'clock to Huff's Island Road, and were on the sc...

Four young people injured in a single-vehicle accident south of Rednersville have been treated at Belleville Hospital. The man and three women were in a vehicle that went off County Road 23 yesterday ...

The Trent-Severn Waterway is getting another 20-million dollars funding from the federal government. The money is addition to 63-million announced last year for the waterway, and will help to deal wit...