A Colorado father and mother who orchestrated a hoax to convince authorities that their six-year-old son had been carried away in a helium balloon in October have both received jail time for their role in the stunt.
It took a Freedom of Information request to get the details….but, the provincially appointed Supervisor at Quinte Healthcare now wants everyone to know how much he’s making. Graham Scott sent a letter to local mayors, MPP’s and the media advising that he’ll make roughly 250-thousand dollars next year….no where near the contracts […]
Four people are staying with friends and neighbours after losing their home to fire south of Marmora. Marmora and Lake Township Fire Chief Tony Brownson says a garage on Red Oak Road was well involved when firefighters arrived late last night, and the flames had already spread to the attic of the adjoining house. Fire [...]
A trial will be held next April for the parent company of the Norampac pulp and paper mill in Trenton on Ministry of the Envivonment charges. A Ministry official says Cascades Canada was given the trial date in Belleville Provincial Court yesterday. The company was charged in August, 2008 in connection with the discharge of black particulate [...]
The Mayor of Belleville is steamed with the Supervisor at Quinte Healthcare for a lack of professionalism. Neil Ellis told the Lorne Brooker Show on CJBQ this morning he’s miffed after Graham Scott forwarded a personal letter to the Mayor, which blasted the local media for its coverage of his salary, on to the CJBQ [...]
For the past few months, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been little more than deadweight--a body as massive as a small car, zooming idly in orbit high above the surface of the Red Planet. After the orbiter's computer suffered a series of unplanned reboots, mission engineers decided in August to hold the probe in "safe mode" […]
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Network Challenge earlier this month demonstrated that social networks, more than being platforms for self-promotion, can be also be highly effective tools for rapidly gathering and disseminating very precise information. With the help of Facebook , Twitter and a homemade Web site, a winning t […]