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Plenty of socks on Bridge Street

The first Bridge Street Sock Project is being hailed a success. Earlier this fall, Bridge Street Retirement Residence began a sock drive to help their neighbours at the John Howard Drop-In at Bridge S...

Alana Cameron Dec 20, 2023 sockladyspins / CC

Weekly COVID update

COVID-19 infections across the region continue to creep up. There were 84 new high-risk cases diagnosed over the last week. Active cases sit at 98, up from last week's 85. Outbreaks in high-risk setti...

News Dec 20, 2023

More donations towards new hospital in PEC

There has been more support for the Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital Foundation and the new hospital. Through their annual "ODE to Joy" Art Show and Sale, ANDARA Gallery artist-owners Andrew Csa...

Alana Cameron Dec 20, 2023 Pictured at ANDARA Gallery; Back row : Briar Boyce, senior development officer with PECMHF; Sally Cowan, Back the Build campaign cabinet member; Monica Alyea, PECMHF board member; Andrew Csafordi, co-owner of ANDARA Gallery. Front row: Tara Wilkinson, co-owner of ANDARA Gallery; Nancy Parks, Back the Build campaign chairperson; and Barbara McConnell, PECMHF board chairperson (Photo: Shannon Coull)

Protect yourself and others from illness this holiday season

A joint statement from Hastings Prince Edward Public Health, KFL&A Public Health, Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit, Ottawa Public Health, Renfrew County and District Health Unit an...

Alana Cameron Dec 20, 2023 (Photo: Facebook/Hastings Prince Edward Public Health)

Cost of Living Adjustment important part of Centre Hastings 2024 budget

Centre Hastings is aiming to pass its 2024 budget in mid-January. Council received the Draft Budget last week featuring an $8.7 million Operating Budget and $5.1 million Capital Budget. Director of Fi...

Alana Cameron Dec 20, 2023

Big Rig makes big mess in Brighton

Northumberland OPP responded to a crash on Boes Road in Brighton this morning, after an 18-wheeler truck crashed into a low bridge, tearing the trailer open. The bridge had only 3.7m of clearance. Nob...

Alan-Michael Steele Dec 20, 2023

Arrested on Brighton's Main Street

A man with no fixed address faces an assault with a weapon charge after an altercation in downtown Brighton Tuesday. Northumberland OPP responded at noon to Main Street after reports a person had been...

John Spitters Dec 20, 2023

Doing donuts leads to serious charge

A 21-year-old Belleville man has had his driver's licence suspended and vehicle impounded after being spotted spinning in high speed circles and causing a cloud of smoke in a Bell Boulevard parking lo...

John Spitters Dec 20, 2023

Drug and traffic charges laid

A vehicle stop in Belleville led to drug trafficking and other charges Tuesday afternoon. OPP and Belleville police officers with Project Renewal stopped the vehicle on Bellevue Drive around 4 o'clock...

John Spitters Dec 20, 2023

Perogies in aid of Ukraine

Despite having almost disappeared from most media recently because of coverage of the Isreal-Hamas war in the middle east, the war in Ukraine continues and so do fundraising efforts by the local Human...

John Spitters Dec 20, 2023 Cooking up the perogies for Ukraine at The Lark in Belleville's Downtown District are Corrine Sykes (left) and Myroslava Symonenko. (Photo: Quinte News)