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• Trenton Memorial Hospital patient thanks emergency team for saving his life

  23-07-2026 22:52 via intelligencer.ca
  
  TRENTON – Gerald Desjardins credits a Trenton hospital team with saving his life, and he wants everyone to know about the care he received.The 65-year-old Trenton resident survived a harrowing medical situation on July 15.He said he wouldn’t have survived the heart-related condition if not for the quick and effective actions of the emergency department team of Trenton Memorial Hospital (TMH).Soon after his release from care, Desjardins and his wife, Diane Fournier, contacted The Int
  
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• Gleaners Foodbank in Belleville offering choice and dignity with new "shopping" model

  23-07-2026 21:23 via intelligencer.ca
  
  Clients of Gleaners Foodbank in Belleville now have more choice in the food they receive – and dignity in doing it.Staff on Thursday unveiled their new “shopping” model, one intended to treat clients with more respect by allowing them to select each food item.Already in use at some food banks locally and elsewhere, it began here on July 2.“It’s been going very well so far – lots of positive feedback from our visitors,” executive director Peter Kerr told
  
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• Belleville motorcyclist dies in two-vehicle collision: OPP

  23-07-2026 17:21 via intelligencer.ca
  
  Members of the Quinte West Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), along with Emergency Medical Services and Quinte West Fire, responded to a fatal two-vehicle collision.On Wednesday, July 22 around 6:10 p.m., OPP responded to reports of a two-vehicle collision involving a motorcycle and a dump truck on Old Highway 2 in Trenton, Quinte West.As a result of the collision, the rider, a 25-year-old resident of Belleville, was pronounced deceased at the scene.Old Highway 2, between South
  
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• Two Quinte men arrested in child exploitation police investigation

  23-07-2026 17:11 via intelligencer.ca
  
  Two Quinte men were among dozens of people charged in a sweeping police investigation across the province involving child exploitation and child sex abuse cases.A 45-year-old Belleville man as well as a 37-year-old Quinte man face numerous charges, according to the Ontario Provincial Police who worked with 25 police services including in Belleville.As many as 63 people were arrested overall across Ontario and charged for alleged crimes against 51 victims, said police.The Belleville man faces ch
  
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• Belleville residents speak out against subdivision proposed for Bell Creek

  23-07-2026 05:47 via intelligencer.ca
  
  Opposition is mounting against a proposed subdivision slated for sensitive provincially significant wetlands in one of Belleville’s last natural environmental areas known as the Bell Creek watershed.More than 100 residents crammed into the basement of Eastminster United Church Wednesday evening to voice their objections to a potential North Hanley Park 103-unit residential development going ahead on the eastern outskirts of Belleville’s urban boundary off Haig Road.Similar concerns
  
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