Bancroft this Week

Questions remain on South of 60

The fate of the South of 60 Arts Centre/Railway Station and Visitor Centre in Barry’s Bay is to remain status-quo, but there continues to be questions for Danielle Paul, the former culture and tourism co-ordinator.

Light and hope at Relay for Life

Cancer is a very scary word to many people. To those wearing yellow T-shirts last Friday evening, the word was a challenge met - a battle fought and won.

Bancroft council faces more bad financial news

Bancroft council was given a report card last week by Collins Barrow Chartered Accountants and its bottom line wasn’t as rosy as previously predicted.

New bi-weekly transit service in Wollaston

As of June 10 there was a new way to get to Bancroft from Wollaston Township.

Searching for the right door

For some time, I have been troubled by Bancroft’s Community Safety and Well-Being Plan. There are times when it has looked much like the Hans Christian Anderson story of the Emperor’s New Clothes. You remember – where two con men posed as tailors to sew an elegant (and very expensive) new robe for the king. When it looked like they were doing nothing, they convinced the court officials that their stitching was so fine that only people of the highest quality could see it. They then took the money and ran, while the king paraded naked around the court, until a little child proclaimed “The emperor has no clothes!”

Plan doesn’t work

To the Editor, Anyone who will read my plight and respond with a positive outcome. My husband’s friends, and community members, have spent many hours ...