By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Calling the past two weeks of Friends for Dinner “truly amazing,” organizer Kevin Taylor cited many donations they received from a variety of organizations to keep this initiative going and growing. Even with ...
By Bill Kilpatrick On Oct. 24 over 30 members of the faith community in Bancroft, along with community leaders, social service workers, and concerned citizens ...
By Bill Kilpatrick Paul Dubé, the Ombudsman of Ontario, has concluded that Wollaston Township has violated the Municipal Act regarding the section that governs closed ...
By Bill Kilpatrick In part two of Bancroft This Week’s series on Home Again we sat down with some local foster parents to hear about ...
By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Tudor and Cashel Township had their annual Trunk or Treat in the parking lot of the township community ...
By Bill Kilpatrick Bancroft is among a growing number of municipalities that are seeing their OPP billing statements rise by double digit percentages. At the ...
By Bill Kilpatrick Christine Walker, the president of the board for Home Again, the local volunteer agency that rescues and rehomes cats and dogs, sat ...
By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Art Helps: Connecting with Natural Materials-Plants, built more than a natural structure on Oct. 19 on the ...
By Bill Kilpatrick Former North Hastings resident and Nurse Practitioner Clarissa Townsend has always felt a calling to work with people. It was this drive ...
By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter On Oct. 6, the Gilmour Girls of Tudor and Cashel Township participated in this year’s CIBC Run/Walk for ...
By Chris Houston In an interview on Oct. 6, local journalist Bill Kilpatrick spoke to Bancroft This Week about his recent “rollercoaster” health journey. After ...
By Bill Kilpatrick On Friday, Nov. 1 the Art Gallery of Bancroft held their opening reception for Toronto artist David Holden entitled The Missing Years. ...
By Nate Smelle After a three-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Algonquin Shrine Club is excited to announce the return of its Christmas ...
By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Karl and Dawn Douglas from Monteagle grew a giant rutabaga in their home garden. Rutabagas (Brassica napus) are ...
By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Tudor and Cashel had a Lunch and Learn on breast cancer awareness on Oct. 23 featuring Kim Carson, ...
By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The 24-Hour Theatre Project returns for its second year on Nov. 9 at the Bancroft Village Playhouse, although ...
By Nate Smelle Bancroft council recently received an update on the Baseball for Dad campaign from its founder, mental health advocate Louri Snider at their ...
By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Faraday Community Centre had its very own Jurassic Park over the long holiday weekend, as the not-for-profit ...
By Bill Kilpatrick According to statistics on the Ontario Federation of ATV’s web page “Between 2016 and 2022, Ontario Provincial Police reported 151 deaths and ...
By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Bancroft and Area Studio Tour returned for its second weekend on Sept. 28 and 29 from 10 ...
By Nate Smelle On Sept. 13 and 14, more than 350 volunteers, representing 179 community-based snowmobile clubs from throughout Ontario gathered in Muskoka for the ...
By Melissa Armstrong Bancroft Jets Girls U-15 hockey team hosted the Ennismore Eagles, Otonabee Wolverines and Ottawa Valley Thunder for a friendly mini tournament on ...
By Bill Kilpatrick Last year the North Hastings High School track and field team had what coach Barb Gillis described as an “outstanding year,” adding ...
By Kaitlin Sylvester The Bancroft Skating Club hosted its highly anticipated annual fundraiser on April 6 at the Bancroft arena. The event that brought together ...
By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Minor baseball is coming back to Whitney in May, after many years’ absence. The Whitney Recreation Committee announced ...
By Bill Kilpatrick On Wednesday March 20 from 6-8 p.m. York River Public School held the first North Hastings Youth Sport Registration Fair. The event ...
By Nate Smelle The Bancroft U-15 Girls Jets are having a truly remarkable 2023/2024 season.This amazing group of up and coming hockey stars has been ...
By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter With Mother Nature refusing to cooperate, the Hastings Snowshoe Hustle, scheduled for March 10 at Camp Cedar Ridge ...
By Bill Kilpatrick Three wrestlers from North Hastings High School are headed to Stoney Creek, near Hamilton, for the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations ...
By Nate Smelle On the weekend of Jan. 27 a team from the Algonquin shrine club travelled to Barrie to participate in the 56th annual ...
By Nate Smelle Algonquin athlete Bernie Hogan has been on a roll. At the recent Masters Indigenous Games held in Ottawa from Aug. 24 to ...
By Nate Smelle Well, it’s just after 3 a.m. on Nov. 5 and I am wide awake, anxiously awaiting the outcome of the next 24 ...
By Nate Smelle Each year, as autumn settles in across Ontario, a remarkable transformation takes place in the skies above. While most Ontarians are preparing ...
By Nate Smelle One of the best, most welcoming things about living in North Hastings is how people here tend to look out for their ...
By Nate Smelle By the date of this newspaper’s publication, it will have been 2,933 days since now infamous Access Hollywood tape was released. For ...
By Nate Smelle When I first began reporting here in Bancroft in 2012 it was amid the rise of the Idle No More movement’s nationwide ...
By Nate Smelle LIVING IN NORTH Hastings for almost 18 years now I have come to appreciate the value of tourism on many levels. Whether ...
By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Transparency, the hallmark of our democracy, and the accountability and public trust it brings with it, is in ...
By Nate Smelle It was around 10 years ago when a former acquaintance asked me if I would be willing to look after her friend’s ...
By Chris Houston Amidst the arms races between the global superpowers in the 1980s, Dr. Young Seek Choue of South Korea proposed the idea of ...
By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Paralympic Games in Paris began on Aug. 28 and go to Sept. 8. Over 4,000 athletes from ...
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