January 2016 Archive

Brine leak cuts curling club’s season short

By Angelica Ingram Darrell McQuigge jokes that he didn’t send in his letter to Santa Claus on time this year. The vice-president of the Wilberforce ...

Bantam girls emerge victorious over the Lindsay Lynx

The Camp Red Eagle/Parkview Dental Girls Bancroft Jets are off to a flying start in 2016. On Saturday, Jan. 2, the girls travelled to Oakwood ...

Bantam Jets finish in second place

The Bierworth Readi-Mix Bantam Jets hosted Tweed Saturday, Jan. 2, for their final regular season home game. The Jets dominated the game right from the ...

LCBO confirms plans to move

By Tony Pearson Keeley Rodgers, a media relations spokesperson for the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, confirmed to Bancroft This Week that their Bancroft location ...

Traffic complaint leads to several charges

Shortly after  10 p.m.  on Dec. 27, police received a report of a vehicle driving erratically on Highway 28, heading into the town of Bancroft.  ...

Trumbo sheds light on a dark period in Hollywood’s history

The New Year promises to bring some controversial films to the big screen as the North of 7 Film Fest continues the tradition of showing ...

My mom has Alzheimer’s

January is Alzheimer Awareness month and this year’s campaign theme is #StillHere. Although dementia is progressive and ultimately fatal, the symptoms and rate of progression ...

Music Stars

By Tony Pearson I covered a number of school Christmas concerts last month, to the point where everything started sounding like “Jingle Bells” (Trivia note: ...

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