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Friends of Wellers Bay focused on protection, community building, governance

The Friends of Wellers Bay have laid out their focuses moving forward. At Monday's Quinte West Council meeting Karen Fischer, Chair of the Friends of Wellers Bay, addressed council with an update on t...

Aron Locke Aug 09, 2021 (Photo: Friends of Wellers Bay)

City of Quinte West unveils remodeled municipal website

The City of Quinte West municipal website has gotten a facelift. At Monday's council meeting the remodeled website was unveiled and is now up and running. The website was redesigned to make it more us...

Aron Locke Aug 09, 2021

Quinte West council requesting province consider vaccine passports, mandatory vaccinations

Amid rising concerns over the faster spreading Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus Quinte West council is aiming to push the provincial government to implement a vaccine passport system. According to ...

Aron Locke Aug 09, 2021 (Photo: David Foot / Quinte News)

UPDATED: Belleville Council cuts meeting short after medical emergency

updated: Belleville Mayor Mitch Panciuk says Feeney has been released from hospital, and is resting at home. What was supposed to be a busy Belleville Council meeting on Monday afternoon was cut short...

David Foot Aug 09, 2021 Belleville Council holds its regular meeting at Belleville City Hall, on August 9, 2021. (Photo: David Foot / Quinte News)

Governments investing more money into rural high speed internet

Hastings Lennox and Addington MPP Darryl Kramp welcomes news that the Ontario and federal governments are investing over $362 million to bring high-speed internet to another 90,000 rural households in...

Alana Cameron Aug 09, 2021 Alan Levine / CC

Federal, provincial governments providing cash to help farmers

NEWS RELEASE Ontario Supporting Economic Recovery of Farmers Among the more than 600 projects are 23 in Northumberland-Peterborough South NEWS August 9, 2021 PORT HOPE, ON - The Governments of Ontario...

Alana Cameron Aug 09, 2021 Northumberland-Peterborough South MPP David Piccini. (Photo: Facebook)

O'Toole uses Belleville as backdrop to release rural strategy

High speed internet for all Canadians by 2025. That is one of the pillars of Conservative leader Erin O'Toole's plan for rural Canada which he revealed Monday afternoon in Belleville. With regional Co...

Alana Cameron Aug 09, 2021 Federal Conservative leader Erin O'Toole released his party's plans for rural Canada in Belleville, August 9,2021. (Photo: Quinte News/Alana Cameron)

Sloan demands O'Toole give money back

The former Conservative MP turned Independent member for Hastings-Lennox and Addington riding is demanding the Conservative party's leader return money previously donated to him back to the original d...

John Spitters Aug 09, 2021

Oppressive heat opens cooling centres

We're in another steamy and potentially dangerous heat wave and the cities of Belleville and Quinte West have opened their cooling centres for those who otherwise wouldn't be able to escape the stifli...

John Spitters Aug 09, 2021 Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center / CC

Six new cases, another outbreak

Hastings Prince Edward Public Health is reporting six new cases of COVID-19 today and a second active outbreak. There have been six recoveries since the health unit's last report on Friday, leaving 24...

Alana Cameron Aug 09, 2021