Local - Feature

Church holds pancake supper to prepare for Lent

February 24, 2012 at 2:09 pm

By Megan Voss The atmosphere at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church was about as light and fluffy as the pancakes they were making. Traditionally, Shrove Tuesday is the last day before[…]

Local - Feature

Archives can't be built in a day

February 23, 2012 at 8:06 pm

By Joanna Becket “An archives, as it turns out, is a bit like Rome. Can’t be built in a day,” wrote Orland French, former president, Hastings County Historical Society, in[…]

Local - Feature

Junior Iron Chef competition and food & beverage show

February 23, 2012 at 3:12 pm

By Megan Voss The competition was heated inside the kitchen at Loyalist College on Saturday, Feb. 18. Prince Edward Collegiate Institute, Loyalist Collegiate & Vocational Institute and Ernestown Secondary School[…]

Local - Feature

Winter weather environmental effects

February 23, 2012 at 2:47 pm

By Samantha Cantelon People might not be aware of is how this warm weather is affecting the environment and wildlife. According to Environment Canada, the area received 57.4 centimetres of[…]

Local - Feature

Competitive arm wrestling in Belleville

February 15, 2012 at 3:43 pm

By Topher Seguin These athletes have the right to bare arms. Stepping up to the small table in the middle of the room, the competitors take a quick glance at[…]

Local - Feature

Local bus driver takes over curling shuttle

February 14, 2012 at 3:05 pm

By Joanna Becket A yellow school bus has been barreling east along highway 401 by 7:30 a.m. every morning this week with Rome Dorval at the wheel. Dorval is shuttling[…]

Local - Feature

College connection to local weight-loss competition

February 14, 2012 at 3:00 pm

By Mallory Haigh The Quinte’s Biggest Loser weight-loss competition has almost drawn to a close. The event, which is run by the Belleville General Hospital, is a weight-loss competition modeled[…]

Local - Feature

Picky petal people keep family business alive

January 27, 2012 at 12:36 pm

By Sharon Kallaste Thirty years ago Anne MacKinnon said, “I’m never going to be a florist.” But she soon gave up thoughts of being a marine biologist, took a two-year[…]

Local - Feature

Local man writes book on Hastings County schools

January 25, 2012 at 3:46 pm

By Jennifer Bowman Courtsey of Rural Hastings Advocate An understaffed event at the Heritage Museum in Stirling had an unexpected outcome. A book. John Sager, a retired certified management accountant,[…]

Local - Feature

Deseronto man dedicated to lose weight

January 24, 2012 at 4:05 pm

By Sherry Tompkins At 380 pounds, 5’ 7” tall, John Wendling, of Deseronto, felt as though he was about to have his fourth heart attack. “I knew that I had[…]

Top Stories