Med student looking for PPE donations

April 17, 2020

by CHAD INGRAM A Queen’s medical student from Bancroft is collecting donations of personal protective equipment for local health- care facilities amid the ongoing COVID-19 ...

Get creative on Earth Day

April 14, 2020 By Kristena Schutt-Moore Spending time outdoors is a great way to get active and there is no better time to spend time ...

A nation of bread makers

April 14, 2020 By Chris Drost During the first days of COVID-19 in Canada, it was not uncommon to see the entire sliced bread section ...

Spring is here, time to garden

April 7, 2020 By Kristena Schutt-Moore The general rule of the green thumb is to start garden seeds indoors roughly six weeks before the frost ...

Food bank needs your help

March 31, 2020 By Chris Drost The good news according to North Hastings Community Cupboard director Monica Piercey is that so far, they have managed ...

Taking beech bark disease seriously

March 17, 2020 By Chris Drost Humans are not the only ones facing disease that has come from other places. During the 1890s European beech ...

Snowboarding down the Eagles Nest

March 3, 2020 By Kristena Schutt-Moore The road up to the Eagles Nest Park is closed off to vehicles by a mountain of snow during ...

Maynooth has sweet tooth for butter tarts

March 3, 2020 By Kristena Schutt-Moore The Hastings Highlands Centre was filled with joy as butter tart crusts fell apart and the gooey contents spilled ...

SOIceFest brings ice climbers to North Hastings

Feb. 25, 2020 By Kristena Schutt-Moore The ice was perfect, and so was the weather for climbing it. From Friday, Feb. 7 to Sunday, Feb. ...

Educator offers insight into the value of learning outdoors

Jan. 22, 2020 By Nate Smelle Bark Lake Leadership and Conference Centre’s program manager Joe Fortin kicked off the Bancroft Field Naturalist Club’s 2020 speaker ...

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