Letters

Keep resources clean

March 23, 2016

To the Editor, One of our most precious natural resources is the least protected and respected. We as Canadians who care about our environment and ...

Questions following OMB prehearing

A lot of ratepayers including yours truly left the Ontario Municipal Board hearing on Oct. 5 angry and frustrated. The hearing was deferred until Nov. 7. About 50 ratepayers showed up for the hearing and, unfortunately, the audio system did not function well, so most of the time it was hard to hear the proceedings.

Long-term care needs support

To the Editor, I have never written a letter to the paper before, but I feel so strongly about an intolerable situation that exists in ...

What you don’t know

To the Editor, The garbage question in Hastings Highlands will not fly away on the wind of Mr. McPherson’s words. Let’s be clear: Most people ...

Peeved at tax increase

To the Editor, The following letter was sent to members of Hastings Highlands council. 3.6 per cent … really?  I am writing to you to ...

Children’s mental health services in North Hastings

The following letter has been sent to Susan Sweetman, executive director of Children’s Mental Health Services for Hastings and Prince Edward by Bill Kilpatrick, Bancroft ...

No wards means less ears for outskirts

Hastings Highlands council recently decided that councillor convenience should outweigh good representation for all its far flung constituents by abandoning the ward system. As a senior citizen with some knowledge of human behaviour, I find it really hard to believe that someone living further away will care as much as someone residing closer by, to care enough to manage issues local to me. Voting at-large typically means that candidate councillors will typically reside in populated areas, although there may be exceptions.

25 years in the woods

The Bancroft and Area Studio Tour is gearing up for its 25th presentation of arts and crafts. It sets me wondering about the place of a grassroots organization like this in the economic development of our area.

Did you also know?

To the Editor, For some time now former Hasting Highlands councillor Mrs. Lorraine Fell has been riding the range in search of curb-side garbage pick-up ...

Help identify turtle hotspots

Turtles have been roaming these parts long before land development, roads and motor vehicles. Ideally, it would be great if the turtles would stay off the roads. A notion that seems highly improbable but not impossible as the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry is now focusing efforts on the strategic conservation of ecosystems and species at a landscape level

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