Commentary

Faraday quarry: Is it worth it?

June 4, 2019

June 4, 2019 By Nate Smelle In less than two weeks Hastings County council will be faced with a decision which will shape the future ...

Homegrown

May 28, 2019 By Nate Smelle Ask anyone who has grown a garden, and they will likely tell you that there is nothing more delicious ...

The heartbeat of our wetlands

May 21, 2019 By Nate Smelle One of my very first assignments as a reporter working for Bancroft This Week was to write an article ...

Acceptable collateral damage?

May 14, 2019 By Nate Smelle Since speaking with Ontario Secondary School Teacher’s Federation Local District 29 president Scott Marshall and many of the teachers ...

Sounds of spring

May 7, 2019 By Nate Smelle Living in North Hastings one can’t help but notice the arrival and departure of species that come and go ...

Empathy and action needed in North Hastings

April 30, 2019 By Nate Smelle After talking with several people that have been impacted by the floods in North Hastings over the past week, ...

Sink or swim?

April 22, 2019 By Nate Smelle Heart-to-heart conversations are the best way of communicating about the things that matter most. These discussions are useless though ...

Valuing pollution

April 16, 2019 By Nate Smelle Emissions of greenhouse gases need to be called out for what they truly are … pollution. The time for ...

Life: The choice of a new generation

April 2, 2019 By Nate Smelle With Bancroft’s climate strike now in its second week, Earth Hour on Saturday, and the media starting to pay ...

Growth is not the answer

March 26, 2019 By Nate Smelle With the water and wastewater rates in Bancroft about to go up again it is difficult to see a ...

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