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Generosity shown at Cram-a-Cruiser event

Lots of much needed food was collected Friday by the Belleville Police Service and other volunteers. The first of two Belleville Police Cram-a-Cruiser events was held at Joe's No Frills store on Bell ...

John Spitters Dec 09, 2022

Turnout down for local election in Belleville

While October's municipal elections are a thing of the past, Belleville City Council will see some interesting statistics at its meeting Monday afternoon. A staff report shows a total of 15,668 voters...

John Spitters Dec 09, 2022 Andreas Kontokanis / CC

Christmas luncheon raises big dollars

A great Christmas tradition continued Friday with the annual Trenton Kiwanis Club Christmas luncheon. It isn't the most delicate of events but it's a lot of fun and it always raises a lot of money for...

John Spitters Dec 09, 2022 (Photo: Facebook)

Quinte real estate market "stabilizing"

Despite home sales being down considerably last month from November of last year, the Quinte and District Association of Realtors maintains the local market is stabilizing in that November's sales num...

John Spitters Dec 09, 2022

Picton getting COVID, cold, and flu clinics

The Hastings and Prince Edward Ontario Health Team (HPE OHT) is pleased to announce the expansion of the COVID, Cold and Flu Care Clinics to include Picton. This expansion brings the total number of c...

John Spitters Dec 09, 2022

Final night for a Skyway Bridge closure

The Skyway Bridge will be closed again tonight (Friday) starting at 9 o'clock for reconstruction work. However, it will reopen at 6 in the morning tomorrow (Saturday) and be open all day through the w...

John Spitters Dec 09, 2022 Work continues to rehabilitate the Quinte Skyway Bridge on Highway 49. (Photo: Ontario Ministry of Transportation)

Roseneath man fined for hunting offences

The Ontario government is safeguarding the public against unsafe and illegal hunting practices. Gordon Madill of Roseneath was found guilty of carelessly discharging a firearm while hunting, in additi...

John Spitters Dec 09, 2022 (Photo: MNRF)

$4,500 towards new hospital in Prince Edward County

The team at IG Wealth Management is Backing the Build for a new hospital in Prince Edward County. On behalf of IG Wealth Management, Barbara Shuster and Scott Lavender donated $4,500 to the new hospit...

Zach McGibbon Dec 09, 2022 Pictured on the future site of Prince Edward County’s new hospital from left: Lina Rinaldi, Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer at Quinte Health; Shannon Coull, executive director of the PECMH Foundation; Scott Lavender and Barbara Shuster, certified financial planners at IG Wealth and Nancy Parks, Back the Build campaign chairperson. (Photo: Briar Boyce/ Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital Foundation)

Former MPP Gary Fox Passes Away

A Prince Edward County farmer, who served as Member of Provincial Parliament from 1995-1999 has died. On Thursday, Gary Fox died of cancer, just a few weeks short of his 79th birthday. The well-known ...

Tim Durkin Dec 09, 2022 Gary Fox with his wife Lynn. (Photo: Lori Slik Facebook)

Study underway into Belleville Transit

The City of Belleville says it will be conducting a "comprehensive public transportation study" to look at ways to improve Belleville Transit over the next five years and beyond. As part of the study,...

Zach McGibbon Dec 09, 2022 Belleville Transit bus parked at downtown Terminal station. (Photo: City of Belleville)