Belleville news

• Belleville replacing Great St. James stairway from East Hill to Downtown

  03-07-2026 17:12 via intelligencer.ca
  
  Old East Hill residents have helped finance the cost of replacing the historic Great St. James stairway linking the old neighbourhood to downtown, Moira River Parks and the Riverfront Trail.The donations will help cover the city’s cost to reconstruct a new pedestrian link set for completion by fall, says Joe Reid, city director of Transportation and Operations.,“A donor on the East Hill had approached the City and provided the City with $50,000 toward the project in the fall of 2026
  
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• Savour the Sips event set to cool patrons in Downtown Belleville

  03-07-2026 17:25 via intelligencer.ca
  
  Downtown Belleville is inviting visitors to another annual, award-winning event aptly dubbed Savour the Sips.Building off of the success of Savour the Chill, the four-season culinary series now includes Savour the Flavour, Savour the Heat, and the fast-approaching Savour the Sips.The Savour series recently earned an Ontario Business Improvement Area Association (OBIAA) Award of Excellence in the Event category.With 14 participating businesses, attendees can explore Downtown Belleville while sam
  
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• City implements two-hour free parking in downtown municipal lots 

  03-07-2026 17:17 via intelligencer.ca
  
  Belleville has introduced two-hour free parking in municipal parking lots within the Downtown Business Improvement Area (BIA).To take advantage of the new two-hour free parking, all vehicles must obtain a free parking permit from the pay-and-display machine or through the HotSpot Parking app using the lot’s zone number. Vehicles parked for more than two hours must pay the regular parking rate of $2 per hour for any additional time.The change applies only to municipal parking lots within t
  
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• Belleville Legion Branch 99 to join national 100th anniversary celebrations

  03-07-2026 17:03 via intelligencer.ca
  
  Belleville Legion Branch 99 is joining national celebrations marking the Royal Canadian Legion’s 100 th anniversary.The national founding of the veterans’ group was on July 17, 1926, one year before Belleville opened its own Legion branch in 1927.After a large, loyal following down through the decades with up to 2,000 members some years, the Belleville Legion is still working to serve veterans and the community with a membership of more than 300, said Mike Benson, Branch 99 presiden
  
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• PECMH Foundation celebrates community impact, hospital progress and 40 years of giving

  03-07-2026 16:27 via intelligencer.ca
  
  WELLINGTON – The Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital (PECMH) Foundation celebrated another successful year of philanthropy, community engagement, and progress toward a new hospital during its Annual Meeting held Thursday, June 25, at the Royal Canadian Legion in Wellington.During the meeting, Foundation leaders reflected on a year marked by generosity, major construction milestones, and continued investment in healthcare close to home.The Foundation reported that the community contribu
  
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• Putnam County Spelling Bee at Tweed and Company Theatre

  03-07-2026 15:42 via intelligencer.ca
  
  Something different by a company which has made its reputation doing just that (something different) is The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee being presented by the Tweed and Company Theatre.For openers, it is a U.S. show and that takes a little off, but the show remains enchanting with its lively and talented cast and challenging spelling words which offer brutal challenges to both cast members and volunteer audience members. The show drew solid crowds at the Actinolite Marble Arts Centre
  
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• Advocates call for equity for Deafblind people

  02-07-2026 21:37 via intelligencer.ca
  
  Advocates for Canadians who are Deafblind are calling for equity and understanding about an often-misunderstood community.June was National Deafblind Awareness Month. Belleville’s Quinte Sports and Wellness Centre was one of several Ontario sites chosen by CNIB Deafblind Community Services to promote awareness of the disability and the needs of Deafblind people.About 466,000 Canadians older than age 15 have some amount of dual sensory loss, the agency reports, and many lack access to serv
  
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• Storm causes house fire in Queensborough, power outages across Hastings-Prince Edward

  02-07-2026 16:33 via intelligencer.ca
  
  Residents of a Queensborough home escaped injury Wednesday after an apparent lightning strike ignited a fire there and high winds felled trees and power lines across Hastings County.Tuesday’s tornado warnings were followed a day later by another storm system that battered much of Ontario. Thousands of people in Hastings County remained without power – and therefore fans and air-conditioning – on a very hot Thursday morning. There were also smaller outages in Prince Edward Coun
  
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• Belleville’s Own: The computer doctor is in

  02-07-2026 16:26 via intelligencer.ca
  
  VIC SCHUKOVBorn in the historic town of Kemptville, just south of Ottawa, Jim Sanders came to Belleville in 1976, as a 10-year-old military brat. Here, he acquired accreditation in network engineering at Ontario Business College. For 10 years he worked in the technical whole sales end of computer electronics.A self-taught computer programming virtuoso, he pioneered in the early days of DOS 3.1 — crafting batch files line by line — to mastering Windows NT4, early networking infrastru
  
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• Belleville Canada Day celebrations all about spending time with family

  01-07-2026 23:44 via intelligencer.ca
  
  A sea of red shirts, sunbrellas and Canadian flags rippled in a light breeze at West Zwick’s Park in Belleville during 159th birthday Canada Day celebrations on Wednesday.The national holiday wasn’t just a time to be thankful for living in a free and prosperous country.It was also an opportunity to take rare time out to spend with family sharing chip-truck fare, ice-cold lemonade and ice cream while escaping 31 Celsius summer temperatures in the shade of park trees.There were plenty
  
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• Marshall Road homeowners decry lack of city water, sewer services

  01-07-2026 23:14 via intelligencer.ca
  
  Homeowners living along Marshall Road for decades in Belleville say they are feeling like second-rate citizens in the very city to which they pay their fair share of property taxes.As the city gears up toward a $85 million Avonlough Switch Pumping Station project to service up to an estimated 9,000 new homes in Potters Creek area lying to the west, 34 existing homeowners along Marshall Road and nearby Bridge Street West and Peter Street have yet to be informed when they will finally be linked t
  
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• Black Canadian military service featured at Trenton's National Air Force Museum

  30-06-2026 17:40 via intelligencer.ca
  
  CFB TRENTON – A new temporary exhibit at the National Air Force Museum of Canada sheds light on the service of – and discrimination against – Black people in Canada’s military.“ Portraits – Stories of Black Canadian Military Service” is a travelling exhibit developed by the Canadian War Museum in partnership with the Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia, and the Niagara Military Museum. It opened here Saturday and runs until late September.It tracks th
  
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• Quinte region heat warning: tips for staying safe and cool

  29-06-2026 23:18 via intelligencer.ca
  
  Environment Canada has issued an alert due to extreme heat in the Quinte region.The agency on Monday declared an orange alert about this week’s heat wave. Temperatures may reach as high as 33 C, with the heat wave lasting until Friday or Saturday, Environment Canada reported. An orange alert means weather may cause significant health effects, disruption, or damage and may last for several days.The forecast added humidity may make it feel closer to 40 C.Southeast Public Health on Monday is
  
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• National Air Force Museum offering guided tours inside aircraft

  29-06-2026 23:00 via intelligencer.ca
  
  CFB TRENTON – Staff and volunteers of the National Air Force Museum of Canada are opening the doors to history – and to some of their aircraft.The museum’s popular Flight Deck Fridays return July 3 through Aug. 28. First offered last year, the series gives visitors a chance to step inside as many as seven of the aircraft in the outdoor air park.They include the Labrador, Chinook, and Sea King transport helicopters and the Hercules and Second World War-era Dakota transport plan
  
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• Chip In For Change raises more than $8,000 for Habitat for Humanity PEH

  29-06-2026 19:45 via intelligencer.ca
  
  Habitat for Humanity Prince Edward-Hastings is teeing up a big thank you to the community after enjoying a third successful Chip In For Change fundraiser.Held over Father’s Day weekend, Chip In For Change invited golfers at local courses to donate in support of Habitat PEH’s efforts to build more affordable homeownership opportunities, for local families.From Friday to Sunday, Habitat volunteers were stationed at Black Bear Ridge, Bay of Quinte Golf, Timber Ridge Golf Course, NINE G
  
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• County Transit moving riders to venues throughout the summer

  29-06-2026 19:39 via intelligencer.ca
  
  As summer gets under way, County Transit is working to help keep riders travelling to and from destinations throughout Prince Edward County.County Transit’s summer Weekend Connector buses will return for 2026 with expanded service, running Fridays through Sundays from July 3 to October 18.The enhanced route will connect Wellington (including Wellington on the Lake), Bloomfield, Picton (including the Heights/Base31) and Belleville, with many stops between.Two buses run on two routes with c
  
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• Inaugural Beautiful View Festival lined up for late summer in downtown

  29-06-2026 19:31 via intelligencer.ca
  
  Downtown Belleville is set to welcome Quinte’s first indie music festival, with artists scattered throughout the heart of the city in late summer.Musical acts will take the stage at locations like Capers, UpFront Cafe, The Belleville Club, and Quinte Arts Council for a weekend-long, multi-venue music festival coming to Downtown Belleville this Sept. 18 and 19.Downtown Belleville Improvement Association organizers said the weekend fest will provide an opportunity for visitors to “tak
  
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• Belleville’s Kinsmen Outdoor Pool reopens for the summer 

  29-06-2026 19:25 via intelligencer.ca
  
  Break out your swimwear.The Kinsmen Community Outdoor Pool has reopened “for another summer of fun, fitness and outdoor recreation,” according to Belleville’s Community Services Department.Serving the city for more than 80 years since first constructed by the Belleville’s Kinsmen Club as a community project in the late 1940s, the pool’s ownership was assumed in 2010 by the municipality, according to Intelligencer files.In its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s, the pool
  
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• Belleville Mayor Ellis presented with new federal Housing Design Catalogue

  29-06-2026 19:18 via intelligencer.ca
  
  Belleville has endorsed a new federal Housing Design Catalogue that is part of a broader set of measures by the federal government said to double the rate of housing construction, restore affordability, and reduce homelessness.The catalogue supports standardization in the housing sector through a library of over 50 pre-approved low-rise housing plans to accelerate “gentle density” nationwide that’s free to use for all Canadians.The designs take into consideration the different
  
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• Stirring concert by North Lakeshore Chorus

  29-06-2026 18:05 via intelligencer.ca
  
  What a beautiful and stirring concert the North Lakeshore Chorus presented in Bridge Street Church Saturday afternoon! Title of the program was For King and Country, commemorating the 110th anniversary of the First World War battle of Beaumot Hamel, in which the Royal Newfoundland Regiment was almost wiped out. The heartbreaking loss, especially in the St. John’s area, led to Newfoundland proclaiming July 1 as the official Remembrance Day for the regiment, well before it became part of Ca
  
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• Smylie's becomes title sponsor of TMH Foundation Golf Classic

  26-06-2026 21:54 via intelligencer.ca
  
  The Trenton Memorial Hospital Foundation Golf Classic has a new title sponsor.Smylie’s Your Independent Grocer of Trenton leads this year’s group of sponsors, the foundation announced recently.The tournament will take place Aug. 14 at Oak Hills Golf Club near Stirling.Funds raised will support the emergency-department expansion and equipment needs through the foundation’s Emerge Stronger campaign.Players can expect meals throughout the day, a registration gift, on-course games
  
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• Quinte Health trying to ease doctors' workloads, improve care amid shortage

  26-06-2026 21:29 via intelligencer.ca
  
  Quinte Health’s chief of staff is warning the corporation’s need for doctors could hamper efforts to recruit and retain more.In his June 23 written report to the board, Dr. Colin MacPherson noted the region’s aging population and “high prevalence of poor social determinants of health.“We already have high patient-to-physician ratios on our hospitalist services in Belleville and Trenton and a high on-call burden for all our internal medicine and family medicine phys
  
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• Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital Foundation honours Milford's Barbara McConnell with service award

  26-06-2026 20:28 via intelligencer.ca
  
  The Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital Foundation board has named Milford resident Barbara McConnell as this year’s recipient of its distinguished service award.McConnell on June 25 received the Leo Finnegan Distinguished Service Award during the charity’s annual general meeting at Wellington’s Royal Canadian Legion branch.Former foundation chairperson Leo Finnegan – the award’s inaugural recipient – and current executive director Shannon Coull presented
  
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• What’s open, what’s closed, for Canada Day celebrations across Quinte

  26-06-2026 19:29 via intelligencer.ca
  
  Most municipal services will be closed in communities across Quinte for Canada Day but some private retailers, pharmacies and restaurants will remain open for basic essentials.As usual in the lead-up to the holiday, routine errands are best done before the country breaks out the birthday cake on July 1 to celebrate its founding as a nation in 1867 given nearly everything is closed to the public.BellevilleSlated for closure July 1 are Belleville’s City Hall, Quinte Sports & Wellness Ce
  
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• Belleville Theatre Guild launches 75th anniversary season in Belleville

  26-06-2026 19:11 via intelligencer.ca
  
  A mix of pride, excitement , fun and a healthy dose of old-fashioned show-business razzle dazzle swept through the Steve Forrester Lounge in The Pinnacle Playhouse on June 23.The occasion was the launch of the guild’s 75th year of performing for many grateful and richly entertained audiences in Belleville.Introduced as president for this special year was Kathleen Manderville who has been active as a guild member as board member, actress, musician and more.Those attending included past and
  
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• Quinte West businesses score high in confidence in Ontario Chamber survey 

  26-06-2026 19:05 via intelligencer.ca
  
  A new survey by the Ontario Chamber of Commerce bodes well for Quinte West businesses who took part in the snapshot of sentiment in the wider provincial business community.Businesses in Quinte West are demonstrating encouraging resilience and optimism, according to newly released results from the OCC Business Confidence Survey, said the Quinte West Chamber of Commerce.“Local respondents report slightly higher confidence levels than the provincial average in both the Ontario economic outlo
  
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• First look at Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte's new long-term care home

  26-06-2026 01:16 via intelligencer.ca
  
  TYENDINAGA MOHAWK TERRITORY – Decades in the making, the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte’s new long-term care home is a place rooted deeply in culture and community.Dignitaries on June 23 held a ribbon-cutting in Tsi Thonwatíhsnye’s Elder Care Home at 7984 Old Highway 2, just east of Highway 49 and west of Deseronto.Its name means “where they take care of them (support them)” in the Kanyen’kehá:a (Mohawk) language.The first residents are expected t
  
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• Belleville couple gives $1-million endowment to BGH Foundation

  25-06-2026 23:08 via intelligencer.ca
  
  A few years ago, Belleville resident Wayne Sheppard had no plan to join the Belleville General Hospital Foundation, but now he’s its newest million-dollar man.Sheppard and his wife, Wendy Sheppard, are the donors behind a new endowment for the charity, which funds the purchase of all medical equipment and more in the hospital. Such costs aren’t funded by the provincial government.The Wayne and Wendy Sheppard Endowment for Exceptional Care, announced Thursday evening in Belleville, i
  
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• Residents express concerns about data centre proposed for Quinte West

  25-06-2026 20:17 via intelligencer.ca
  
  Amid stiff resistance by communities across Canada fighting new data centres from starting up in their cities and towns, a handful of Quinte West residents are speaking out about a proposed data centre for their city.Residents told members of the city’s Planning Committee June 18 they are concerned about a data centre creating noise pollution, drawing too much electricity the city needs to grow and the possibility it could at some point draw on city water resources to cool the components.
  
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• Bayview Mall Medical Clinic welcomes new doctor to Belleville

  25-06-2026 20:04 via intelligencer.ca
  
  Mayor Neil Ellis and Coun. Garnet Thompson joined Belleville Chamber of Commerce President Sandi Ramsay to welcome Dr. Eghosa Desmond Irogue to the official opening of his practice at the Bayview Mall Medical Clinic located inside Pharmasave.Pharmasave’s manager Hitesh Patel is happy to continue providing physician services and pharmacy under one roof in one of Belleville’s most accessible locations.Dr. Desmond was recruited in partnership with Verismo Health and the Bayview Mall Me
  
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