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FARMTOWN CHRISTMAS Santa waves to the crowd from his sleigh during the Belleville Santa Claus parade which started at King George Square and wound through downtown.
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Police chief recommends new building site
Looking a lot like the Yule season has hit.
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EMC News - Belleville Using lands already owned by the City of Belleville will save a large amount of land costs toward a new police headquarters, Chief Cory McMullan told City Council Tuesday of last week. McMullan reviewed a detailed proposal on the long-discussed project she had presented some months ago during a closed session of council, and because it was an open council meeting, followed the rules of keeping presentations down to ten minutes. From three potential sites reviewed earlier, McMullan said one is now no longer available. The two remaining are the Veridian property at the corner of
Sidney and College streets and the fairground property at the corner of Bridge and Sidney. Both are similar in terms of adequacy of size, future growth allowance, and central locations for police needs. A suitable building could be put up on either location for under $20 million, the Veridian property slightly higher in estimated cost because of site work. The chief went further to state that the fairground location would be her first choice simply because traffic congestion at the College Street location could prose problems for quick entry and exit for emergencies. But the decision is council’s to make, she stressed.
Her main concern is that other large solar panel complex Please see “New” on page 3 council indicate the need is in the works for the eastern for the project to go ahead part of the former township by including $1 million toward it in the capital budget for 2013. The presentation was referred to capital budget considerations but there is no guarantee that it will necessarily be approved. r 28th A new police station has nesday, Novembe ed W to nd 22 r be been agreed as a need for Thursday, Novem Belleville for several years. Council also agreed to try to thwart a major solar panel farm in Thurlow ward. Councillor Jackie Denyes argued that the local Federation of Agriculture now considers the lands as Page! “Class 3” and that class is See Ad on Back now considered “prime” farm land. She said still an-
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