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Snooker tourney raises just under $4,000 for Hospice North Hastings
By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Shamrock Club in L’Amable had a three-day snooker tournament from May 2 to 4 at the Dungannon Recreation Centre, which raised just under $4,000 for Hospice North Hastings. In addition to snooker, ...
Credit card fraud comes knocking in Bancroft
By Bill Kilpatrick When most people think of credit card fraud, they often think of some key board warrior with a head set in another ...
Local students participate in Quinte Regional Science Fair
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 ...
Bancroft hospital gets $20,000 donation
By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Local resident Tom Simpson presented the Fund Development Committee at the Quinte Health North Hastings Hospital with a gift ...
Severe wind storm causes widespread damage in Bird’s Creek
By Nate Smelle Residents of Bird’s Creek were forced to take cover on the afternoon of April 29 as a powerful windstorm swept through the ...
Limerick hosts successful EV car fire demo
By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Limerick fire department hosted a successful demonstration at their fire hall on April 29 on EV car ...
Carney’s Liberals mount historic comeback; Kramp-Neuman re-elected in HLAT
By Nate Smelle As of late Tuesday morning, with 256 out of 258 polls reporting, Conservative incumbent Shelby Kramp-Neuman was officially re-elected in the riding ...
Bancroft chapter of the Beavers donate to NHCC
By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Beavers with the 1st Bancroft Beavers, Cubs and Scouts, donated 75 pounds of non-perishable food items to ...
Sod breaking ceremony for fibre optic cables in South Algonquin
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 ...
Garrett Gilbart’s Terra Precarium art opening a metallic art feast
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. ...
Carlow Mayo levies tax rate increase of 3.98 per cent for 2025
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 ...
Community News
Baptist Church holds fundraiser for the unhoused
By Bill Kilpatrick On May 9 Rod Moffitt held a piano concert at the Community Fellowship Baptist Church to raise money to help support the ...
Hastings Centennial Manor gets donation from Legion
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 ...
Tudor and Cashel Township volunteers shown some love
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 ...
APFTA NHHS student art show coming April 2
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 ...
Metcalfe talks North Hastings Music Festival
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 ...
Foster Lake Winter Carnival postponed due to snowstorm
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 ...
Huskies to compete in Bay of Quinte
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 ...
Tudor and Cashel open new Seniors Active Living Centre
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 ...
New event company bringing people together
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 ...
Progressive euchre tournament coming Feb. 1
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 ...
Sports
Huskies to compete in Bay of Quinte
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 ...
Huskies win silver and gold
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 ...
U-15 Bancroft Jets Girls host friendly tournament
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 ...
NHHS Huskies continue to break records
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 ...
Elvis Stojko performs at the BSC Carnival
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 ...
Whitney Minor Baseball returns in May
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 ...
First youth sports fair held at York River Public School
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 ...
Winning season continues for Bancroft U-15 Girls Jets
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 ...
Hastings Snowshoe Hustle cancelled due to weather
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 ...
Huskies’ wrestlers headed to Ontario championship
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 ...
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Thoughts on freedom
By Bill Kilpatrick The name Milton Friedman is much more common now than it was some 60 years ago when he penned his now well-known ...
This too shall pass
By Bill Kilpatrick It’s hard to be a student of modern European history and have hope these days. An amusing cartoon with a father and ...
The future we face
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 ...
Redefining value
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 ...
No time for parrots and praise
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 ...
The politics of cynicism
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 ...
Memory and forgetting
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 ...
Our interests
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 ...
The ultra-greedy and the rest of us
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 ...
A peace that is no peace
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 ...
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