By Bill Kilpatrick On April 5 Grade 8 student Ares Worsley and Grade 10 student Thomas Love from North Hastings High School traveled to Centennial Secondary School in Belleville to compete in the 65 annual Quinte Regional Science and Technology ...
By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Carlow Mayo Township council had a final discussion and passed their 2025 budget at their meeting on April ...
By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter At their March 17 meeting, Limerick Township council heard from Ken Deboo, a resident on East Bay Road ...
By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter South Algonquin Township and Algonquin Fibre had a sod breaking ceremony in Whitney on April 16 for the ...
By Nate Smelle At the April 8 council meeting, Bancroft’s general manager, Andra Kauffeldt, presented a report recommending significant changes to the town’s waste management ...
By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Art Gallery of Bancroft had the grand opening of Garrett Gilbart’s show Terra Precarium on April 3. ...
By Bill Kilpatrick On March 2 the North Hastings Community Trust held a meeting where they announced that they were gifting their property and building ...
By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The grand opening of the new Keller Williams real estate office-Go with Crowe Real Estate occurred on April ...
By Nate Smelle Hastings County council has officially approved the purchase of a property in Bancroft to serve as the new location for the town’s ...
By Bill Kilpatrick This is part two of the Wollaston council special budget meeting. Part one appeared in the March 29 edition of Bancroft This ...
By Nate Smelle On Wednesday, April 23, the Bancroft Area Stewardship Council, in partnership with Trent University, the Whitney and Area Algonquins, Algonquin Provincial Park, ...
By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Stacy Talsma, president of the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 181 in Bancroft, sent a media release to Bancroft ...
By Michael Riley Local Journalism Inititiative Reporter Tudor and Cashel Township had a roast beef dinner event thanking all their volunteers for a job well ...
By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A Place for the Arts will be hosting the fourth annual North Hastings High School student art show ...
By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter With the North Hastings Music Festival coming back from May 5 to 9, Gillian Metcalfe, president of the ...
By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Carlow Mayo Township’s Winter Carnival at Foster Lake was supposed to be held on Feb. 16 at Foster ...
By Bill Kilpatrick After an up-and-down year for the North Hastings High School junior and senior girl’s volleyball teams, both teams pulled off some important ...
By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Tudor and Cashel Township has opened up a new Seniors Active Living Centre. Councillor Elain Holloway contacted The ...
By Bill Kilpatrick Watch out Mark Zuckerberg there some new women on the event scene, and according to one of their founders, Monica Sears, they ...
By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A progressive euchre tournament is coming to Dungannon Recreation Centre in L’Amable on Feb. 1 beginning at 1 ...
By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Tudor and Cashel Township resident Anne Glenn spoke to Tudor and Cashel council at their meeting on Jan. ...
By Bill Kilpatrick After an up-and-down year for the North Hastings High School junior and senior girl’s volleyball teams, both teams pulled off some important ...
By Bill Kilpatrick The North Hastings Highschool senior and junior boys’ volleyball teams are on fire this year as both teams moved on from 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 Bill Kilpatrick As I sit to write this editorial Canada is a mere seven days away from electing a new prime minister and the ...
By Nate Smelle It is Monday, April 21 and in a week from now Canadians will elect our next Prime Minister. As critical as this ...
By Nate Smelle Every time we are faced with an election in Canada, we are told to “get out and vote, because this election is ...
By Bill Kilpatrick “You can’t trust the mainstream media, it’s all owned by big business,” “government media is all propaganda,” “politicians are all alike,” “power ...
By Bill Kilpatrick In his 1978 book entitled The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera spoke about how to resist powerful forces through the ...
By Bill Kilpatrick Now that we are into a federal election it’s more important than ever to be thinking about our interests and how they ...
By Nate Smelle THERE IS ALWAYS something in the news to worry about these days. I suppose this has been the case for as long ...
By Bill Kilpatrick On Oct. 19, 1945, four short years before the Russians blew up their first atomic bomb, George Orwell, wrote a short story ...
By Bill Kilpatrick In honour of International Women’s Day that was celebrated on March 8, I want to take a look at the life of ...
By Bill Kilpatrick Social Darwinism is the idea that takes the teachings of evolution by Charles Darwin, mainly “the survival of the fittest,” and applies ...
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