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Make The Community Your Home: Quinte Sport and Social Club

The benefits of playing co-ed adult sports are almost endless! The Quinte Sport & Social Club provides adults with a sense of community, team bonding and the opportunity to maintain a healthy lifestyle — all of which become progressively more challenging as we age. Sports such as court/beach volleyball, softball, flag football, basketball, soccer, floor hockey, dodge ball and many others offer a fun way to get your weekly cardio fix while developing new relationships. If you are new to town ...

Last Chance Marie on Music in the BOQ

Last Chance Marie has been making music in the Bay of Quinte region since 2007. After a temporary pause for post secondary education in New Brunswick, the group has reassembled with a tweaked roster and a new rehearsal space: a Church that Tayson Ingersoll, the band’s lead singer attends. I met with them there to get their perspective on how the region has evolved, and to find out where bands go to eat on the Bay. M: Having the experience ...

Hidden Gems

Hey Bay of Quinte! Catherine here, from Charcoal and Teak. I am obsessed with all things home décor and my super power is flipping furniture. I love hitting up the thrift stores around the Bay of Quinte and rescuing ugly, unwanted gems, otherwise destined for the dump. In today’s post, I’m going to show you how I took a $2 coffee table from St. Vincent de Paul and turned it into a chic ottoman. As soon as I saw ...

Downtown Focus – Trenton

Downtown Trenton has reinvented itself over the past few years to become a major hotspot in the Quinte area. Whether you are an outdoor enthusiast or love a good meal on a patio, Trenton has got you covered. With everything from book stores & clothing boutiques to pubs & live music venues, you can be sure you’ll find lots to do in Downtown Trenton. Here’s a list of some of my favourite spots around town. Cafés If you’re looking ...

20 Reasons To Live In The Bay Of Quinte

The Bay of Quinte Region is Canada’s Best Kept Secret. Stretching along the 401 from Brighton to Napanee, north to Hastings County and south to Prince Edward County, it’s a region of varied geography and cultural traditions, with the shores of the Bay tying everything together. That’s why we’re sharing our top 20 reasons the Bay of Quinte Region is an amazing place to build your life. 1. Who needs the city? Now that High-Speed Internet, the rails, and 401 connect you ...

Brighton poised for growth

By Jim Barber Bay of Quinte Living is interviewing all of the mayors elected or acclaimed in the Oct. 27 municipal election to talk about their economic and community development plans for the new four-year term of their councils. It appears that the residents of Brighton had a message to send to town council in the 2014 municipal election held on Oct. 27. And it was a profound message in favour of change that was boldly sent as four ...

Bay of Quinte is Quality, Affordable

By Jim Barber For Lesley Smith, as a place to raise a child, build a career and live an enviable, affordable and active lifestyle, there really is no place like home. She and husband Jamie had good jobs and lived in the large, vibrant, culturally rich metropolis of Ottawa and seemed to be living the dream. But it also turned out to the be the expensive, congested, and overly busy city of Ottawa, and once the couple had their ...

Homegrown Solar Jobs

By Jim Barber The creation of a new Napanee-based holding company is going to have significant repercussions within the broader Bay of Quinte job market, with at least 180 well-paying high-tech jobs being created, and the promise of more jobs and increased economic activity to come. At a special press conference held on Friday, Oct. 10, Karl Hollett of Napanee’s Strathcona Solar Initiatives announced the creation of a new multi-national holding company called Strathcona Energy Group. It includes a ...

Bay of Quinte a Great Market for Renters

  In many parts of Ontario, particularly in the booming sprawl that comprises the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and it’s contiguous markets in southern Ontario, the opportunity to purchase a home, especially a new home, is becoming more and more difficult for many folks. This means more individuals, couples and families are looking to rent homes – sometimes for extended periods of time. They are choosing to rent either because they can’t now and probably won’t in the foreseeable ...

Bay of Quinte Region is an alliance of interdependent communities, bound together by a common history, shared economy, and the water that surrounds and defines us. We hope to welcome you soon.

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Bay of Quinte Region is an alliance of interdependent communities, bound together by a common history, shared economy, and the water that surrounds and defines us. We hope to welcome you soon.