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Ontario has new COVID daily high

The province has announced 4,736 new cases of COVID-19 today with over 65,000 tests done. That is a single day high for Ontario So far 3.5 million vaccination doses have been administered. About 3,500...

Tim Durkin Apr 15, 2021 (From left): Health Minister Christine Elliott, QHC President and CEO May Clare Egberts, MPP Todd Smith and Premier Doug Ford were at Prince Edward Memorial Hospital for a grant announcement on October 23, 2020. (Photo: Amanda Smith/Quinte News)

Tweed to decide on hockey team April 27

Tweed council will decide whether to apply for a team in the Eastern Ontario Super Hockey League at their next meeting on April 27. Council was presented with a staff report about the 11-team league f...

Jack Miller Apr 15, 2021

RELEASE: Dibbits MFRC gala pushed to 2022

In response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the directions provided by the Government of Ontario, and the Public Health Agency of Canada, the Trenton Military Family Resource Centre (MFRC) has de...

Tim Durkin Apr 15, 2021 Trenton MFRC Executive Director Tamara Kleinschmidt at the kick-off to the 16th annual Invisible Ribbon Gala. The May 8th event's title sponsor is Dibbit's Excavating and Landscape Supply. (photo: supplied/Trenton MFRC)

Young guns pace the B-Sens in Calgary

(Belleville Senators forward Igor Sokolv eludes Stockton's Mark Simpson at Calgary's Saddledome Wednesday night.) It was a triumphant homecoming for Belleville Senators rookie Mark Kastelic. The forme...

Jack Miller Apr 15, 2021

Hastings County joins CAMSAFE

Hastings County is taking part in the CAMSAFE program with Belleville police, registering the locations of security cameras. A report to Hastings County Community and Human Services Committee on Wedne...

Mary Thomas Apr 15, 2021

Belleville police report

The Belleville Police Service responded to 58 calls from April 14, 2021 at 5:00 a.m. to April 15, 2021 at 5:00 a.m. Car vs. Loader On April 14, 2021 at 7 a.m., Belleville police were dispatched to Avo...

John Spitters Apr 15, 2021 (Photo: David Foot / Quinte News)

Expansion of Quinte's Isle Campark approved

The expansion of Quinte's Isle Campark in Prince Edward County has officially been approved to move ahead. At Tuesday's special Prince Edward County council meeting councillors voted in favour of amen...

Aron Locke Apr 15, 2021

Bancroft OPP put out alert for missing 29 year-old woman

Bancroft OPP have put out a bulletin for a missing woman. Twenty-nine-year-old Hope Jemimah Ogutu was last seen on Highway 118, near Cheddar Road in Highlands East, on Monday April 12, 2021. She's des...

David Foot Apr 14, 2021 29 year-old Hope Jemimah Ogutu was last seen on Highway 118, near Cheddar Road in Highlands East, on Monday April 12, 2021. (Photo: Submitted / Bancroft OPP)

Quinte West Mayor says local vaccine doses are set to be cut back

The mayor of Quinte West says he's received some discouraging news on the local vaccine distribution front. Jim Harrison tells Quinte News he got a call from HPE Public Health on Wednesday, saying tha...

David Foot Apr 14, 2021 Official U.S. Navy Page / CC

Proposing a mobile isolation unit for the homeless

A mobile isolation unit may soon be set up in Belleville's downtown area. An isolation centre was established last year at the former Quinte Secondary School but that location will soon be unavailable...

Mary Thomas Apr 14, 2021 Outside the COVID-19 Assessment Centre at the former Quinte Secondary School, in Belleville. (Photo: David Foot / Quinte News)