Two teenage friends are missing from the Madoc area. OPP are asking for the public’s help in locating 15 year old Gary Jansen, and 16 year old Cory Suggett. They were last seen walking together near Ivanhoe after leaving a house.
The pair, described as runaways, haven’t been seen for a week. Call Central Hastings OPP if you have any information on their whereabouts.
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This is one picture you definitely don’t want to be in!!! OPP are asking for the public’s help to find a male suspect who’s broken into 2 homes in Tweed. Early this morning(yesterday morning), a male got into a house, hit the lone female while she slept, tied her up in a chair, and then took pictures……he then took off.
A very similar incident occurred back of September 17…also in Tweed. Both female victims suffered minor injuries. OPP not releasing a description yet. They remind people to keep doors and windows locked.
If you have information, call the OPP, or Crimestoppers.
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A major facelift at the Trenton Hospital will result in better care for patients.
The Emergency Department has undergone 800-thousand dollars in renovations this year, and the improvements will also help staff.
Emergency Services Director Linda Price says the original E-R was built to handle 19-thousand people a year, but now sees 32-thousand.
There are now 34 seats in a waiting room twice the size, and there is also a double triage area where nurses asess patients for treatment. Money to pay for the work came from the Trenton Memorial Hospital Foundation and generous community donations.
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Palmer Road North, north of Bridge Street in Belleville, still holds down the number four position on the list of bumpiest roads in the province in a survey that closes today.
The road has been in the top ten of the Ontario Worst Roads program run by the Canadian Automobile Association the past few weeks, trailing only other routes in Toronto, Oshawa and Hamilton.
Votes on the lousiest roads in the province, including streets around the Quinte area, can be made on the C-A-A website until the end of today.
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Brighton residents should be on the lookout for vintage railroad hats.
Memory Junction owner Ralph Bangay says the 15 caps, some dating back to the 1920’s, were stolen during a breakin at his historic railway museum on Maplewood Drive on Monday night.
The culprits got in by smashing a rear window.
Anyone with information about the breakin is asked to call Northumberland O-P-P or Crimestoppers.
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Twice the speed just west of Belleville means no driving until next week for a local motorist.
Quinte West O-P-P, while on radar patrol on Wallbridge-Loyalist Road last evening, clocked a vehicle at 115 kilometres an hour in a posted 60 zone, and also passing another car at that speed..
The driver’s licence was suspended for 7 days, and the vehicle was towed and impounded for a week.
The driver will also make a mandatory court appearance to answer to the charge of Stunt Driving/Speeding.
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It was a vote so close by the Planning Public Council it will have to go to Prince Edward County Council for a final decision.
The Planning group voted 8 to 7 in favour of an official plan amendment requested by Country Club Investments, which wants to build a 400-unit residential development, including a golf course, on Belleville Street in Wellington.
Councillor Peter Mertens says the amendment, from rural to special residential and open space, will be dealt with by County Council in two weeks.
Country Club will still have to get subdivision agreement approval, and he doesn’t expect work at the site to begin until late next year.
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Lots of police action on the Zion Road..north of Belleville yesterday. City Police chased a vehicle for some time, eventually stopping it, and apprehending suspects. However, no one was cuffed and carted off to jail, the chase was part of an ongoing training exercise. Belleville Police will be holding chase training in the Zion Road area at various times for the next 4 weeks.
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It’s money down the drain for the city of Belleville. City Council has approved writing off almost 81-thousand dollars of uncollectible water accounts, and 57-thousand of uncollectible sewer accounts. A staff report indicates the problem is small in the overall scheme of things, dropping 56-percent over a four year period. Meanwhile revenue juumped 22-percent…to a total of seventeen-and-a-half million for both utilities.
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Belleville is sticking with its original plan in hiring a new librarian, after dropping the one it hired about two years ago. Library Board Chair Councillor Garnet Thompson says there are no plans to switch to a more business-oriented administrator, but will go again with a master in library science. Earlier this summer Chief Librarian Mark Gagnon was let go from his position. The salary range for the position is from 84-to-92-thousand dollars.
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It’s official…..the Mayor’s name will be on the ballot when Belleville residents head to the polls to elect a new city council in November of next year . Mayor Neil Ellis announced his intentions for re-election during an interview in his office at City Hall yesterday. The Mayor says he’s pasionate about the job and honoured to lead the city….adding he wants to see a number of big infrastructure projects…such as the Bell Boulevard Bridge, the Quinte Sports Centre Multi-plex and Thurlow Water Tower…through to completion. PEC Mayor Leo Finnegan announced this week he won’t seek re-election and QW Mayor John Williams isn’t announcing his intentions at this time.
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A group of retired Nortel employees will be looking for support from the Federal Government when they rally outside local MP Daryl Kramp’s office in Belleville today. Spokesman Lorenza Doucet, a Nortel pensioner, tells our newsroom the Ad-Hoc rally will be looking for help from all political parties with regards to lost benefits. The group will be outside Kramps’ Millenium Parkway office between 1:30 and 2:30 today.
Over 30 people made formal presentations to Prince Edward County Council for five hours on proposed wind farms before a crowd of 300, in Picton last night. Most in the crowd were against wind farms, but, many were in favour. Those against say big wind turbines will ruin the County’s beautiful countryside, and wreck the tourist economy, and hurt real estate values. Those for them cited clean, renewable energy, and a commitment to future generations as reasons to allow them. If all proposed wind farms, both off shore and on land were allowed, Prince Edward County could be home to over 300 wind turbines.
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A Picton man…..charged with murdering a young Picton mother earlier this month….was being hailed as a hero this spring in Pembroke. The Daily Observer quotes 32-year old Mark Chapman as saying he left a friend’s apartment and was on his way to his own apartment in May when he noticed a fire and started kicking in doors and pulling nine people to safety. 60-people, including Chapman, were left homeless after the massive blaze. Chapman and Kevin Ruttan, of no fixed address, were charged last week with first degree murder in the death of 26-year old Steffany Gardiner. He body was found on the beach at Papineau Lake September 19th.
Greater Napanee council will consider four options for providing pool facilities in the future.
Council met with a small group of people last night, and Mayor Gordon Schermerhorn says the town will ask the federal and provincial governments for financial help..
Council, which operates two pools in Napanee, can build a new facility, fix the outdoor Rotary pool, extend the lease for the indoor Collins Court pool or completely get out of providing acquatics.
Council plans to discuss the issue further at meetings this fall.
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Another day, and a lot more reports about vehicles being broken into in Belleville.
City Police say they investigated thefts from 18 cars in the east end yesterday.
Most of the vehicles were left unlocked on Sunday night.
Wallets, a camera, loose change, compact discs and d-v-d’s were stolen.
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It has been a month’s worth of rain in Quinte since yesterday morning.
An official at the C-F-B Trenton Weather Office says 76 millimetres of rain fell between early Monday and eight o’clock this morning..
There had been less than ten millimetres of rain in the first 27 days of September until it started yesterday.
The average September rainfall at the base is 76 millimetres.
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A new area code is coming to the Quinte area and the rest of Eastern Ontario next May..
The C-R-T-C says the new area code within the 6-1-3 boundaries will meet the continuously growing demand for new telephone numbers.
The Director of the Canadian Numbering Administration, Glen Pilley, says millions of additional telephone numbers will be provided without affecting existing numbers.
The new 3-4-3 code responds to the high demand for new numbers resulting from the growing popularity of wireless services, the Internet and I-P telephony.
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Quinte West O-P-P have arrested two men fighting in Trenton, including one who took his anger out on the police.
Officers responded at ten o’clock last night to a report of 10 to 15 people fighting outside a business. However, only four people were actually involved, and two of them were the instigators.
One of the suspects struggled while being arrested and assaulted the officers, and continued struggling and kicking at police after being put into the back of the cruiser. A 22-year-old man from Vaughn, north of Toronto, was charged with assaulting police, obstructing police and causing a disturbance.
A 27-year-old Brighton man was charged with being intoxicated in a public place.
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A man has been seriously injured in a two-vehicle accident in southeast Prince Edward County.
The O-P-P say a tractor-trailer and a pickup truck collided on Long Point Road, near Babylon Road, east of South Bay, yesterday afternoon.
The pickup driver was extricated and taken to Kingston General Hospital, where he’s in the Intensive Care Unit with serious injuries.
The tractor-trailer driver wasn’t hurt. The O-P-P continue to investigate the cause of the crash.
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Sean gets physical...!
