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The slump in new home construction in Quinte West continued into May. Chief Building Official Ron Wardaugh says permits for only 14 houses were issued last month, compared to 20 in May, 2008. City Hal...

Your cuppa Tim's today will help send children, from the Quinte region and across Canada, to camp again this summer. General Manager for Hanley tim Hortons, Karen Mifflin, says the idea is to give the...

A 15 year old Bayside Secondary School student will lead 24 local athletes into the Ontario High School Track and Field Championships in Toronto this weekend. Arielle Fitzgerald of Batawa finished fir...

The President of the group trying to establish a dog park in Brighton is frustrated with Lower Trent Conservation and discouraged with town council. Lower Trent pulled its property at Procter Park off...

Some tension in Marmora about a suspicious package. Central Hastings O-P-P, firefighters and the O-P-P Explosive Disposal Unit responded yesterday afternoon when the package was found in the Bursthall...

The seven members of the Community Advisory Council at Quinte Health Care have been announced. They are Q-H-C Supervisor Graham Scott, who will be the chairperson, Lyle Vanclief, Ross McDougall, Maure...

It seems hundreds of people in Prince Edward County have no patience for a referendum on changing the makeup of County Council. Yesterday, the Electors of Prince Edward County for Restructuring Wards ...

Construction on highway-62, just north of the 4-0-1, shouldn't cause too much traffic disruption over the next couple of months. Ministry of Transportation, Brandi Duhaime, says the work will be conce...

A Belleville GM dealer says its business as usual at his dealership despite the fact GM is now in bankruptcy protection in the U-S. Peter Smith is confident that GM will emerge from bankruptcy protect...

Another major subdivision in the works for Belleville's Cannifton area. The draft plan put forward by Man Hole Ten developments calls for 542-homes on the east side of Farnham Road, covering 92-acres....