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Budget time nearing

Brighton council will be asked to set a tax increase target at its meeting tonight (Tuesday). Staff is asking that council approve a target of an overall 4% blended tax increase. The increase would in...

John Spitters Sep 08, 2020

Man charged after assault

Belleville police have charged a man with assault after an incident in the city's west end during the noon hour yesterday (Sunday). Police responded to a residence on Charlotte Street and learned a ma...

John Spitters Sep 07, 2020

Unlicensed and without valid plates

A Belleville woman faces six Highway Traffic Act charges and one drug charge after being stopped by Cobourg police officers yesterday (Sunday) afternoon. A vehicle with unregistered licence plates was...

John Spitters Sep 07, 2020 (Photo: Cobourg Police Service Facebook)

Motorcycle versus car

A motorcycle driver was rushed to Kingston General Hospital after a collision with a car on Old Highway 2 between Belleville and Trenton late yesterday (Sunday) afternoon. Quinte West firefighters, OP...

John Spitters Sep 07, 2020 Motorcycle involved in collision Sunday afternoon September 6 2020. (Photo: submitted)

Truck into the bush

A man and a woman were injured after their pickup truck left Highway 401 near Trenton Sunday night. Quinte West firefighters, OPP, and Hastings-Quinte paramedics responded around 8 p.m. to the collisi...

John Spitters Sep 07, 2020 Pickup truck ends up in bush along Highway 401 near Trenton Sunday night (September 6 2020) (Photo: submitted)

Extension of rent break to be considered

Brighton council will decide whether or not to give its YMCA some more financial support when it meets tomorrow (Tuesday) night. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic the municipality had previously waived...

John Spitters Sep 07, 2020 (Photo: Quinte News)

Conservation charity joins efforts to protect The County's South Shore

One of Canada's oldest nature conservation charities wants people to join an effort to forever protect Prince Edward County's South Shore from future development and industrial activity. Nature Canada...

John Spitters Sep 07, 2020 (Logo: Facebook/Nature Canada)

Tenants and resort owner at odds

A long simmering dispute between residents in a Brighton area park model trailer resort and its owner broke out on Saturday. About 15 residents/tenants of Timber House Resort, some waving placards at ...

John Spitters Sep 06, 2020

T-bone in Quinte West

There was a two vehicle T-bone crash Friday night at Flindal and Highway 2 between Quinte West and Brighton. The crash happened around 11 p.m. One person was extricated using the jaws of life. Quinte ...

Aron Locke Sep 06, 2020

Man charged with assault after incident with paintball gun

Shortly after 2:30 a.m. Saturday, Belleville police were called to a house on Catherine Street that had apparently been shot at by a paintball gun. When police arrived, they found two people had been ...

Aron Locke Sep 06, 2020