April 2025 Archive

Limerick resident requests winter maintenance on limited-service road

By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter At their March 17 meeting, Limerick Township council heard from Ken Deboo, a resident on East Bay Road ...

County approves purchase of new site for Bancroft Warming Centre

By Nate Smelle Hastings County council has officially approved the purchase of a property in Bancroft to serve as the new location for the town’s ...

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 ...

Winter Carnaval at Big Rock Eco Retreat ‘très magnifique’

By Michael Riley Big Rock Eco Retreat and Campgrounds on the south shore of Weslemkoon Lake in Denbigh hosted a Winter Carnaval with the 1st ...

Significant service cuts possible in Wollaston

By Bill Kilpatrick This is part two of the Wollaston council special budget meeting. Part one appeared in the March 29 edition of Bancroft This ...

Youth, Careers, and Climate Change Eco-Summit returns April 23

By Nate Smelle On Wednesday, April 23, the Bancroft Area Stewardship Council, in partnership with Trent University, the Whitney and Area Algonquins, Algonquin Provincial Park, ...