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Waste audit will make programs more efficient

A year-long residential curbside waste audit of garbage, organics and recycling will help the City of Belleville learn how it can improve its current waste programs. AET Group has been retained to con...

Alana Cameron Oct 04, 2023

Record broken again

Another day, another high temperature record set across the Bay of Quinte region. Wednesday afternoon, the mercury climbed up to 29.5 degrees according to readings taken at CFB Trenton. That shatters ...

Alana Cameron Oct 04, 2023 Evan Lovely / CC

HPEPH exploring potential mergers with other health units

Hastings Prince Edward Public Health Unit will be exploring potential mergers with other health units. A motion was passed at the Board of Health meeting on Wednesday that would allow the board to beg...

Zach McGibbon Oct 04, 2023 Meeting of the Board of Health at the Hastings Prince Edward Public Health Unit. (Photo: Zach McGibbon/Quinte News)

Trenton resident charged in Oshawa break-ins

A Trenton woman has been arrested in connection with several break and enters at a seniors residence in Oshawa. On September 5, Durham Police allege a female stole cash from an apartment in the senior...

Alana Cameron Oct 04, 2023

Trio of impaired drivers busted in PEC

Members of the Prince Edward County OPP have laid impaired driving charges over the past week. On September 29, 2023, just before 4 p.m., officers conducted a traffic stop on Bond Road. Officers spoke...

Alana Cameron Oct 04, 2023

HPEPH ratifies deals with ONA & CUPE

Frontline staff with CUPE Local 3314 and public health nurses with the Ontario Nurses Association Local 31 are back at work as Hastings Prince Edward Public Health Unit ratified both its agreements on...

Zach McGibbon Oct 04, 2023 (L-R) Medical Officer of Health for Hastings Prince Edward Public Health Dr. Ethan Toumishey, Chair of the Board of Health and Marmora Mayor Jan O'Neill and Director of Corporate Services David Johnston taking questions from media. October 4, 2023. (Photo: Zach McGibbon/Quinte News)

Anniversary celebration and heartfelt tribute

It's hard to believe but time flies! The new Humane Society Hastings Prince Edward is now one year old. An anniversary gathering was held at the Wallbridge-Loyalist Road facility Wednesday morning whe...

John Spitters Oct 04, 2023 From left to right: The late Donna Endicott's husband Butch Nobes, a dear friend Ruth Ginman, Society Executive Director Marilyn Lawrie, and Board Chair Greg Sudds. (Photo: Quinte News)

Robbery charges laid in Cobourg

A 19-year-old is facing robbery and possession of property obtained by crime charges in Cobourg. On Tuesday police received a weapons call to a business in the northwest area of Cobourg. A man is alle...

Tim Durkin Oct 04, 2023

Cocaine charges laid in Quinte West

Two people are facing charges after cocaine was confiscated Tuesday night. Quinte West OPP conducted a traffic stop on Byron Street as part of a drug trafficking investigation. Twenty-two-year-old Kar...

Tim Durkin Oct 04, 2023 (familytalk.ca)

Charges laid in Highway 62 crash

A Bancroft man is facing numerous charges following a crash Tuesday morning on Highway 62. Emergency crews responded around 9 p.m. near Buckhill Road in Hastings Highlands Township. Four people were i...

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