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The County has compiled the results of a survey on County Road 49 and plans to share them with the Federal Government. It will be no surprise to local residents that respondents complained loudly about vehicle damage, safety concerns and the poor image the road presents to visitors. Mayor Ferguson said the survey and the results will be presented to the Federal government and are part of the County’s efforts to pressure the government to fund the balance of the 52 million dollar repair cost. The province has already agreed to pony up 20 million and the County has earmarked 7.8 million. County Road 49 was opened as a provincial highway in 1966 with most of its 18.4 kilometers paved in concrete and has reached the end of its useful life. The roadway was downloaded to the County in 1998 and was already in poor condition. Local council and residents have been pressuring the provincial and federal governments ever since for assistance in replacing the crumbling roadway.

If you were planning to use the Glenora Ferry in the next couple of days, you will need to find another route. The ferry is out of service tomorrow and Thursday for planned maintenance. The Ministry of Transportation expects the ferry to return to normal service at 5 pm on Thursday.

Quinte Health and Trenton Memorial Hospital have established an Education endowment fund in memory of 26 year old former nurse Shannan Hickey who tragically died as a result of intimate partner violence. The Shannan Hickey fund recognizes Shannon’s commitment to health care excellence and lifelong learning and will provide financial assistance to Quinte Health staff pursuing further education and professional development beginning next year.

The Federal House Committee on the status of women called for coercive control to be criminalized earlier today. House chair Marilyn Gladu said the change will give courts and law enforcement officials more tools to combat intimate partner violence. Similar changes have already been adopted in several other countries including the UK, Ireland and Australia. The Committee includes members of all parties and follows a private members bill that was passed by the House last year but failed to clear the senate before parliament was dissolved.

Most people know old comic books can be valuable but three brothers from San Francisco who found several old comics while cleaning out their recently deceased Mother’s attic hit the jackpot. They discovered a nearly pristine issue of Superman 1 which sold for more than $9 million US dollars breaking the record for the most expensive comic book ever. Experts identified the magazine as part of a small run of first edition Superman comics published in 1939 by Detective Comics based on a small advertisement included inside. The comic survived in excellent condition in spite of being stored in a cardboard box with no special protection. And in case you are wondering, the former record holder was Action Comics number 1 which introduced the man of steel. It fetched more the 6 million dollars last year.

Sports

Canada’s most decorated female Olympian, 25 year old swimmer Penny Oleksiak, has been given a two-year ban from competition for an anti-doping rule violation. The International Testing Agency announced the suspension today and said Oleksiak accepted the decision as a result of three whereabouts failures between October 2024 and June 2025. A whereabouts failure is a missed test or test filing deadline. Oleksiak has seven Olympic medals and nine world championships.

And at the Montanna’s Canadian Curling Trials, Kerri Einarson’s Manitoba rink remained undefeated after a win earlier today while Ottawa’s Rachel Homan is in second spot. The two rinks face each other tomorrow. Matt Dunstone’s Winnipeg rink leads the men’s division with St. John’s Brad Gushue nipping at his heels. The round robin schedule finishes on Wednesday with playoff’s starting Thursday. The men’s and women’s Trials winners will represent Canada at next year’s Winter Olympics.

Only one game on tap in the NHL tonight. The Dallas Stars are in Edmonton for a 9 pm faceoff against the Oilers.