Bancroft this Week

Bancroft library’s CEO receives award for professional practice

By Tony Pearson Vanessa Holm, CEO of Bancroft’s public library for the past four years, just completed her Master’s degree in Library and Information Science ...

Coming out of our shells to protect Ontario’s turtles

By Nate Smelle On this planet for a mere 130,000 years the human species has much to learn from the other species sharing in our ...

Bancroft Farmers’ Market open for business

By Sara Gottardi On Friday, June 19 the once “up in the air” Bancroft Famers’ Market was set for this summer, reconfirmed to be taking ...

Harvest the North

By Nate Smelle APPETITES MAY VARY IN intensity, but no matter what our station in life may be we all look forward to our next ...

Art is an essential tool for community building, says Roosman

By Nate Smelle One cannot paint an authentic impression of the arts community in Bancroft without dipping his or her brush into the many colours ...

Town prepares for Canada Day 2015

By Nate Smelle Bancroft will soon be abuzz with activity as Canada Day celebrations return to the municipality this July 1. There will be four ...

Becoming the Light at the Art Gallery of Bancroft

By Sara Gottardi On the enchanted evening of Friday, June 5 the Art Gallery of Bancroft welcomed artist Mary McLoughlin from Peterborough into Bancroft and ...

‘Big News’ from the Bancroft Village Playhouse

By Nate Smelle Twice in one day audiences filled the seats of the Bancroft Village Playhouse on Tuesday, June 9 for a pair of screenings ...

Let food be thy medicine …

By Jim Eadie “Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food” is famously attributed to Hippocrates, the ancient Greek physician considered to be ...