Quinte West O-P-P are asking for information about an incident at the Bayview Trailer Park.
Police say the trailer park on Old Highway 2 had seven incidents of slashed tires last night (SAT).
Police would like to hear from anyone with information.
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In Quinte West, officers were so busy with other calls to action that their RIDE programme completed just 48 vehicles in comparison.
With a smaller number of people stopped…Quinte West officers laid more charges than did Belleville… with one 12-hour suspension, two highway traffic act offences and one liquor licence act offense.
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Officers working with the local RIDE programme found themselves chasing after a dodger last night (SAT).
Belleville Police say at three a-m… a southbound van on North Front Street failed to stop for officers at the RIDE check.
The van allegedly accelerated through a red light and bounced over several curbs before stalling in a nearby parking lot.
When officers tried to get the driver out of the van, the suspect vehicle rolled backwards into the police vehicle..causing minimal damage.
A 21-year-old Prince Edward County woman is charged with impaired driving and failing to provide a breath sample.
She is due in court in January.
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Belleville Police say the local RIDE programme was busy for the second night in a row.
Officers stopped 775 vehicles at various checkpoints around the city.
Two people were issued 12-hour suspensions and had their vehicles towed.
One of the drivers held only a G-1 licence and did not have a fully licenced driver with them. Police say that resulted in additional charges.
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It’s time again for the Holiday Train.
The seasonal locomotive of good cheer makes its way across the country…having started in Quebec on Wednesday.
The train will stop in Belleville and Trenton tomorrow (MON) on its way westward to the Rocky Mountains.
The set-up involves live musical acts, which perform in the train for outside onlookers. The event is often used as a chance to collect canned goods for local food banks.
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Power is out in the Oak Hills and Halloway Heights area this morning.
Crews are on the scene of the outage trying to get power back to the 500 or so affected customers South East of Stirling.
Hydro One says they’re not sure of the cause for the outage… but power should be back by 11:30 this morning.
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The November building stats for Prince Edward County are in and it looks like construction numbers are continuing to grow.
The total construction activity for November was almost 2 million 548 dollars which included 61 permits.
To date this year, 839 permits make up over 69 million dollars in activity up from over 61.7 million at this time last year.
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Belleville Police are searching for suspects after three break and enters yesterday.
Police say they all happened on Sydney Street during the day.
It seems as if nothing was taken from the first house, but a gamecube and some dvd’s are missing from the 2nd, and a 22 inch L-G flat screen computer monitor was stolen from the third.
Anyone with information should contact crimestoppers or Belleville Police.
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Slow down, keep a safe distance, and drive carefully.
Those words from Ontario Provincial Police as they say the 4-0-1 is starting to ice over this morning.
Police say due to changing weather patterns, roads across ontario are getting more slippery today.
Give yourself extra time to get where you’re going so there’s no need to rush.
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A Napanee man faces drug charges after being stopped in a vehicle on the 401 at Deseronto Wednesday.
Napanee OPP found a small amount of methamphetamine, 285 dollars in cash, and digital scales.
36 year old Terry Merlin of Napanee faces possession for trafficking charges. He appears in Napanee court December 16th.
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Christmas was a little early in Centre Hastings today(yesterday). MPP Leona Dombrowsky presented an almost 90 thousand dollar cheque to Reeve Tom Deline to buy equipment and furnishings for the new eco friendly arts and culture center in Madoc.
The center is surrounded by a skatepark, tourist booth, and canteen, and a splash pad is in the works.
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Former hockey coach David Frost has been found not guilty of sexual exploitation.
Frost was charged with four counts of sexual exploitation from his time as a coach of the junior A Quinte Hawks team in Deseronto in 1996 and 1997.
A judge in Napanee today found him not guilty on all four counts.
During his trial court heard emotional testimony from young women who dated two of the Hawks players when they were 16.
The women testified that Frost controlled their boyfriends’s sex lives and participated in three-way sex with the young couples when Frost was 29.
The young men in question emphatically denied all of the allegations the women made in court and appeared as witnesses for the defence, which is unusual for alleged victims.
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Daryl Kramp will hold a key post in the governments committee attempting to solve the crisis in the North American Auto Sector. The Prime Minister appointed the Prince-Hastings MP as Vice Chair of the newly formed “Auto Caucus”. Kramp will also serve on the Standing Committee on Finance and Public Accounts. He says he looks forward to using his experience as a successful businessman in defending the effective use of taxpayers money. Kramp was also selected by his colleagues to act as Chair of the Canada-China Legislative Association.
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A preliminary hearing into the murder of Trenton woman Sarah Martin starts Monday in Belleville. Robert Brickman, who worked with Martin at a Trenton call center, was charged after an 8 month investigation. Sara Martin’s body was found on Mount Pelion in Trenton in July of last year. Three weeks has been set aside for the preliminary hearing.
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The Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario is in no hurry to settle a contract agreement, despite a provincial government deadline of November 30th on a wage offer. Premier Dalton McGuinty has said if the elementary teachers don’t accept a 4 year deal featuring a 12 percent increase, the offer will be downsized to 2 years with a total 4 percent hike. President of the Hastings Prince Edward Elementary Teachers Federation, Karen Fisk, says the ultimatum from the province is an insult to teachers. Elementary Teachers say, on a per student basis, secondary schools receive over 700 dollars more then elementary schools.
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Belleville is hopeful over 200-jobs could be coming to the city. Mayor Neil Ellis tells our newsroom the city is in confidential talks with a food manufacturer but stopped short of identifying the company. He says officials have been in and out of the city over the last couple months asking questions. The Mayor also says an existing city company may add a second plant in the near future. The Mayor made no mention of the possible good financial news at this morning’s annual Mayor and Council address to the Chamber of Commerce at Ramada Inn. The Mayor and Councillors Taso Christopher, Tom Lafferty and Garnett Thompson addressed the crowd.
There’s a bit of snow out there in some parts of Quinte, but the OPP and the Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs both say it’s not yet time to go out for a snowmobile ride. Both organizations stress that no snowmobile trails are open, and that terrain conditions are highly unpredictable. The OFSC is now working to prepare trails for the upcoming season, and many will be blocked by debris.
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Hastings County has re-elected its warden, Ron Emond, for a second term. Warden Emond says he’ll push for expanded high speed internet service in the county. He says this is very important for people in rural areas who want to do business from home. Warden Emond told county council that the effort to get the cost of roads and bridges uploaded to the provincial government will be one of his priorities in 2009.
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It’s student doctor number eleven for Hastings County. Warden Ron Emond announced today (yesterday) that the county has signed up a new recruit for its student doctor program. He is Craig Mitchel a second year medical student at University of Ottawa. Mitchell will begin his practice in Hastings County in 2013… or 2014 if he takes an extra year of Emergency room training. The county pays the students 150-thousand dollars over six years if they give back five years doctoring here after graduation.
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Hastings County wants the provincial offences court to move into the proposed new consoldiated court, whenever it’s built in Belleville, but the Attorney General’s office opposes this. County administrator Jim Pine says putting the P-O-A court into the new regional building would cut down on court security costs and be more efiecient for Justices of the Peace who would have to move between two buildings. Recently, Pine brought the issue to the attention of the ministers of Finance and Municipal Affairs who were unaware of the restriction.
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