Category Archives: News

Lots of applicants, but only one was chosen. The Stirling Festival Theatre has hired a new Managing Director. She is Claudia Staines, from the Owen Sound area. Claudia Staines will begin her new posit...

Belleville is moving ahead with plans to tap into ideas from its younger generation. Work is underway to form the promised Youth Advisory Committee of City Council. Spokesman Colin Leaver says a surve...

Two police officers testified at the Michelle Barnoski murder trial yesterday in Peterborough. and, one of them admits he lied to the accused teenager to learn more about the Warkworth woman's death. ...

The Medical Officer of Health is defending the role out of flu vaccine locally after an anonymous letter was sent out ripping the process. The scathing unsigned letter from "concerned employees of Has...

Belleville Police are expected to have a new Deputy Chief before Christmas. Interviews have been underway this week at the City Police service. The position has been vacant since the retirement of lon...

Thieves cut a hole in the roof to gain access to a Quinte Mall store overnight. The culprits emptied the perfume/cologne shelves......specifically name brands such as Chanel, Cartier, Givenchy, Este L...

Drugs and weapons have been seized in Central Hastings. Officers searched a Highway #7 residence and seized marijuana plants, processed marijuana, four firearms, and cash yesterday. The estimated stre...

A Quinte West resident is accusing some local OPP officers of doctoring evidence and lying in a vendetta against him. Guy Brummell, formerly of the Rednersville Road, told the Quinte West Police board...

Parents in a North Hastings community are fighting a move that has sent their grade six students to a Bancroft school. Busing is an issue for the Hermon Public School parents...who say their children ...

Belleville has thrown its support behind the Ontario municipalities' battle against the Buy American program in the United States. The U.S. stimulus funding requires cities to Buy American. Focus of t...