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• Zach Daum Strikes At Belleville For First USAC Midget Win Since 2014 - FloRacing

  21-05-2023 16:26
  
  Zach Daum Strikes At Belleville For First USAC Midget Win Since 2014  FloRacing
  
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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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• Quinte Health reports positive trends, shorter waits, and budget surplus

  24-06-2026 23:26 via intelligencer.ca
  
  Quinte Health officials are reporting improvements on multiple fronts, including wait times, appointment bookings, and the first operating-budget surplus in three years.The corporation’s leaders were eager to talk about that and more after the June 22 board meeting at Belleville General Hospital.“I would say this this year felt like a turning point for me because, largely, we were able to bring back what I think health care organizations really should be focused on, and that is qual
  
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• Quinte MP Malette, Belleville Coun. Brown speak out on Alto rail project

  24-06-2026 21:54 via intelligencer.ca
  
  Reaction in Quinte to a proposed high-speed rail system by politicians continues to be mixed as voiced this week by community leaders based in Belleville.The Alto project is planning to construct a new double-track, high-speed network from Toronto to Quebec City at a cost upwards of $60 billion to $90 billion.The federal government confirmed on Monday that it will consider adding the City of Kingston as a stop on the alternate southern route swinging from Peterborough through communities below
  
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• Ontario recognizes Prince Edward County broadcaster at County FM 99.3

  24-06-2026 21:31 via intelligencer.ca
  
  A Prince Edward County broadcaster with County FM 99.3 community radio station has been honoured by the Ontario government with an Ontario Senior Achievement Award for her “outstanding contributions” to the province and community.Pamela Stagg is one of only 18 recipients selected from across the province for the award this year.She was feted Monday at Queen’s Park by Raymond Cho, Minister for Seniors and Accessibility and Lieut.-Gov. Edith Dumont.The ministry lauded Stagg &ldq
  
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• Hastings-Prince Edward Ontario Health Team makes major progress on primary-care wait list

  24-06-2026 16:56 via intelligencer.ca
  
  The Hastings Prince Edward Ontario Health Team has cleared the primary-care waiting list for everyone who registered with Health Care Connect before 2025.Health Care Connect is the Ontario service connecting people to family doctors and nurse practitioners. The local Ontario Health Team is an alliance of area health care providers and related agencies.Team members on Tuesday announced the major milestone.A news release stated the list of 11,105 patients who registered before Jan. 1, 2025 had be
  
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• Madoc Township council controversy a cautionary tale for candidates: lawyer

  23-06-2026 19:36 via intelligencer.ca
  
  The vacating of Madoc Township’s deputy mayor seat is a cautionary tale for candidates in municipal elections, says a lawyer specializing in municipal law.Township officials on June 5 announced the vacating of the deputy mayor’s seat due to Larry Rollins, who in 2022 was acclaimed to the position, failing to file a financial statement after that election. The action was in keeping with Ontario’s Municipal Elections Act, which also dictates a candidate who fails to file such a
  
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• Madoc Township deputy mayor's seat vacant; council to discuss replacement

  23-06-2026 19:32 via intelligencer.ca
  
  Madoc Township council will discuss how to fill an empty seat vacated under Ontario’s Municipal Elections Act in July following Deputy Mayor Larry Rollins’ failure to file a 2022 campaign financial statement.That failure had triggered two penalties, both of which are automatic under Ontario’s Municipal Elections Act: the deputy mayor’s office was vacated and Rollins became ineligible to run as a candidate in this year’s election. Both were announced June 5 in a tow
  
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• Personal fireworks banned in urban areas of Belleville on Canada Day

  23-06-2026 16:52 via intelligencer.ca
  
  Planning on setting off fireworks on Canada within the city limits?Think again.With Canada Day just around the corner, Belleville Fire and Emergency Services is reminding residents of the city’s restrictions on fireworks.“Under the city’s fireworks bylaw (2025-142), consumer fireworks may only be discharged on Canada Day or on the day before or after July 1 and only in the rural areas of Belleville,” the city said.“Discharging consumer fireworks in the urban areas
  
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• Downtown at Dusk draws huge crowds to watch street performers 

  23-06-2026 16:20 via intelligencer.ca
  
  How many people can fit onto Belleville’s Front Street between Victoria Avenue and Bridge Street?Whatever the answer is, it was almost filled chock-a-block Fri., June 19 for the annual Downtown at Dusk Festival.Dusk, actually, doesn’t quite cut it, as activities started at 4 p.m. with an official opening ceremony with civic officials and carried on until 10 p.m.Live entertainment was provided at three stage centres along the two-block section.While hundreds of people patrolled or li
  
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• Belleville council bumps up Upper Bridge repair costs to $4.5M

  23-06-2026 16:06 via intelligencer.ca
  
  Belleville council amended its 2006 capital budget Monday to spend an additional $425,000 toward the rehabilitation of downtown’s Upper Bridge linking Front Street to Moira Street West.The money will cover the HST portion of the $4.5 million cost to bring the ailing Moira River crossing up to modern standards.The extra cost is planned to be financed through the Canada Community Building Fund.Repairs for the bridge were originally approved March 9 .Council also awarded the rehabilitation t
  
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• Proposed 66-unit Habitat Village a work in progress: Koudsi

  23-06-2026 03:30 via intelligencer.ca
  
  A proposed $33 million, 66 condo unit affordable housing complex to be known as Habitat Village in Belleville has encountered an unforeseen delay in construction, city council heard Monday in regular session.In a deputation, Hazzem Koudsi, CEO of Habitat for Humanity Prince Edward-Hastings, informed all is moving well to build the five-storey residence save for one hiccup in the early planning stages.In order to receive approval for a record of site condition, Habitat officials have been inform
  
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• Belleville Mayor Ellis calls for quick adoption of procedural changes

  23-06-2026 03:17 via intelligencer.ca
  
  Belleville city council voted unanimously Monday to correct its procedural bylaw to ensure it no longer errs behind closed doors by declaring city owned properties as surplus without public input.The vote came following the release June 18 of integrity commissioner David Boghosian’s findings that council violated Section 289(6) of the Municipal Act by declaring in camera on March 23 a South John Street greenfield property owned by the city as surplus.Monday’s council agenda original
  
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