Bancroft this Week

Local nurse receives prestigious award

By Bill Kilpatrick Former North Hastings resident and Nurse Practitioner Clarissa Townsend has always felt a calling to work with people. It was this drive ...

Dino Live offers prehistoric fun over holiday weekend

By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Faraday Community Centre had its very own Jurassic Park over the long holiday weekend, as the not-for-profit ...

Thank you Donald! (Part one)

By Nate Smelle By the date of this newspaper’s publication, it will have been 2,933 days since now infamous Access Hollywood tape was released. For ...

Group exploring mobile washroom for local unhoused community

By Bill Kilpatrick Last year shortly after Christmas before the warming centre arrived in Bancroft, local volunteer Larry Edgar, was delivering food to some members ...

Gilmour Girls Walk for the Cure

By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter On Oct. 6, the Gilmour Girls of Tudor and Cashel Township participated in this year’s CIBC Run/Walk for ...

Local reporter thankful to be cancer free

By Chris Houston In an interview on Oct. 6, local journalist Bill Kilpatrick spoke to Bancroft This Week about his recent “rollercoaster” health journey. After ...

New program aims at reducing youth ATV injuries

By Bill Kilpatrick According to statistics on the Ontario Federation of ATV’s web page “Between 2016 and 2022, Ontario Provincial Police reported 151 deaths and ...

A climate of silence

By Nate Smelle When I first began reporting here in Bancroft in 2012 it was amid the rise of the Idle No More movement’s nationwide ...

RCJTC and school bus operators reach an agreement in principle

By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter School buses have not been running in Renfrew County for over a month as negotiations were stalled between ...

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 ...

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