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Two outbreaks declared at HPEDSB schools

Hastings Prince Edward District School Board students and staff are on Christmas break, but the number of positive COVID-19 cases continues to climb. The Hastings Prince Edward Public Health Unit has ...

Amanda Smith Dec 24, 2021 (Photo: David Foot / Quinte News)

Foundation provides BGH with $1 million

Quinte Health Care will be able to address a host of critical equipment needs thanks to a $1.1 million cash injection from the Belleville General Hospital Foundation. The most recent instalment was ex...

Amanda Smith Dec 24, 2021 Pictured are (from left): BGHF Finance Chair Peter Knudsen, QHC President and CEO Stacey Daub, BGHF Executive Director Steve Cook. (Submitted photo)

Holiday hours at Quinte Waste Solutions

Residents should be advised the Material Recovery Facility located at 270 West Street, Trenton will be closed for public use on the following dates: December 27, 2021 December 28, 2021 January 3, 2022...

Amanda Smith Dec 24, 2021

Hastings County reacts to rising COVID numbers

As COVID-19 cases continue to rise locally and provincially, Hastings County is taking action to safeguard the health and well-being of its staff, clients, and the public, while continuing to ensure a...

Amanda Smith Dec 24, 2021

Fire ban lifted in Prince Edward County

Fire Chief Chad Brown has lifted the partial burn ban as conditions have improved enough to allow open air burning. To have a fire in Prince Edward County, you must have a current permit and activate ...

John Spitters Dec 24, 2021

Another 97 cases active in HPE

Hastings Prince Edward Public Health is reporting another 97 COVID cases today. There have been 38 recoveries, leaving the number of active cases at 504. Of the new cases, 53 people are fully vaccinat...

Amanda Smith Dec 24, 2021

Belleville woman charged after breaking window at business

A Belleville woman is facing a charge of mischief following an incident Thursday morning. Police were called to a Front Street business at approximately 10:40 a.m. for a woman being verbally aggressiv...

Aron Locke Dec 24, 2021

Belleville Police investigating break and enter

Belleville police are seeking information regarding a break and enter in the city early Thursday. Police were called to a business on Wallbridge-Loyalist Road just before 9 a.m. Thursday for a call ab...

Aron Locke Dec 24, 2021

Holiday Photo in the Barn supports Back the Build

The Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital Foundation is feeling the generosity this holiday season. On Friday the final tally for donations made to the foundation through the Holiday Photo in the Bar...

Aron Locke Dec 24, 2021 Pictured at ANDARA Gallery from left: Briar Boyce, senior development officer with the PECMH Foundation; Nancy Parks, Back the Build campaign co-chairperson; Isabella; Melanie Fida, Back the Build campaign cabinet member; Madeleine; Monica Alyea, director on the PECMH Foundation Board; Andrew Csafordi and Tara Wilkinson, owners of ANDARA Gallery and Barbara McConnell, chairperson of the PECMH Foundation. (Photo: PECMHF)

Warden Phillips looks back at LTC issue

Taking a look back at 2021, Hastings County had what Warden Rick Phillips calls "a bit of an issue" with Long Term Care. Warden Phillips tells Quinte News the county worked with the two provincial rep...

Mary Thomas Dec 24, 2021 Hastings County Warden Rick Phillips, (File photo: Mary Thomas/Quinte News)