The right-left-centre divide

November 19, 2024

By Bill Kilpatrick There’s a saying about the political divide between the right and the left and it goes like this, “The right wing and ...

A lowercase ‘g’

By Nate Smelle While watching the Bancroft Jets put on a show at the North Hastings Community Centre last weekend, I found myself thinking about ...

Threatening free speech

By Nate Smelle Well, it’s just after 3 a.m. on Nov. 5 and I am wide awake, anxiously awaiting the outcome of the next 24 ...

Seasonal movements

By Nate Smelle Each year, as autumn settles in across Ontario, a remarkable transformation takes place in the skies above. While most Ontarians are preparing ...

What happens in America …

By Nate Smelle One of the best, most welcoming things about living in North Hastings is how people here tend to look out for their ...

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 ...

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 ...

Instruments of peace

By Nate Smelle LIVING IN NORTH Hastings for almost 18 years now I have come to appreciate the value of tourism on many levels. Whether ...

Transparency in peril in South Algonquin Township

By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Transparency, the hallmark of our democracy, and the accountability and public trust it brings with it, is in ...