Top Stories
Turtles help maintain a balanced ecosystem
May 14, 2019 By Nate Smellle As spring takes hold and the temperature rises many species of wildlife can be seen by the roadside as they emerge from the wetlands and woodlands where they spent the winter. At the same ...
UPDATE: Bancroft braces for flooding
April 22, 2019 By Nate Smelle UPDATED 4/23/2019: With more rain expected this week, Bancroft is bracing for what could be the second “100-year flood” ...
Climate Strike comes to Bancroft
April 2, 2019 By Nate Smelle Every Friday for the past three weeks millions of students around the world has been skipping school. The reason ...
Community celebrates Irish heritage in Maynooth
May 7, 2019 By Nate Smelle More than 40 people gathered at the Hastings Highlands Public Library on the afternoon of Friday, May 3 to ...
Community members walk for water
May 7, 2019 By Kristena Schutt-Moore Water is a source of life and in many areas of the world it is a hard thing to ...
Coworking program aims to bring business community together
April 30, 2019 By Nate Smelle A new program aiming to assist freelancers, entrepreneurs and home-based businesses is about to kick off in North Hastings. ...
Day of Pink aims to end discrimination and bullying
April 16, 2019 By Nate Smelle Each year on April 10, students, teachers and school staff across the country and around the world wear pink ...
Volunteers celebrated
April 16, 2019 By Chris Drost Described by Volunteer Information Quinte’s Irene Halliday as a “fun time with no big speeches,” the volunteer lunch at ...
Pancon pulls out of McBride mining project
March 26, 2019 By Nate Smelle In response to overwhelming opposition from the community to the controversial McBride mining project in Limerick Township, Pancontinental Resources ...
Local autism group looking for mutual support
March 19, 2019 By Kristena Schutt-Moore At the age of two, Erin Browning’s daughter was diagnosed with autism and has been waiting for support ever ...
County programs aim to fight poverty
March 12, 2019 By Nate Smelle Hastings County’s director of community and human services, Erin Rivers and assistant manager of affordable housing policy and partnerships, ...
Community News
Celebrating music at the NH Music Fest
May 14, 2019 By Kristena Schutt-Moore The North Hastings Music Festival is a week-long celebration that has been an annual event since 1958. Music students ...
Youth get their hands dirty
May 7, 2019 By Chris Drost On the morning of May 3, six students from teacher Colleen Drew-Baehre’s Grade 9 geography class at the North ...
Citizens celebrate the audacity to hope
April 30, 2019 By Nate Smelle On Thursday, April 18, a small group of local residents gathered at St. Paul’s United Church in Bancroft for ...
SIRCH moves to downtown Bancroft
April 23, 2019 By Kristena Schutt-Moore SIRCH has been a big part of the Bancroft community for the past five years. Originally located on Hwy ...
Pregnancy care centre celebrates 15 years
April 16, 2019 By Kristena Schutt-Moore The Bancroft Pregnancy Care Centre celebrated its 15th anniversary in the community with its annual auction fundraiser on Friday, ...
John Foreman to enter hall of fame
April 2, 2019 By Kristena Schutt-Moore When people talk about local music one name is sure to always pop up, John Foreman. Foreman celebrated his ...
Maynooth school hosts Indigenous games
March 26, 2019 By Kristena Schutt-Moore As the winter sun warmed the schoolyard on Wednesday, March 20, students of Maynooth Public School competed and played ...
BASC’s tree and shrub program greening North Hastings
March 26, 2019 By Nate Smelle Spring is here and once again the Bancroft and Area Stewardship Council is hosting its annual tree and shrub ...
AGB celebrates first show of 2019
March 12, 2019 By Chris Drost Dressed in what could be described as a brightly coloured floral tie, Hugh Monteith, president of the Art Gallery ...
Fire safety in changing weather
Feb. 26, 2019 By Kristena Schutt-Moore During the past few months there have been several fires in the North Hastings area affecting businesses, vehicles and ...
Sports
Hockey changing for youngest players
The game is changing for young hockey families. Initiate level, tyke and novice players won’t be returning to the same ice dynamics they remember for the next few years.
Bantam Jets all Ontario finalists
The Bierworth Readi-Mix Bantam Jets were on the road Saturday for game three of their series against the Mitchell Meteors. Being down two games to ...
Weekly open gym offered at Bancroft Gems gymnastics
Bancroft Gems Gymnastics students practice their skills as part of the new weekly open gym format, offered every Saturday afternoon to members and non-members alike ...
Bancroft Jets Tykes Win C Championship
On Saturday, March 11 the Bancroft Tykes travelled to Baltimore for the Tyke Year-end Windup. The Tykes won 14-5 in the final C Division Championship. ...
Bantam Jets down in the finals
The Bierworth Readi-Mix Bantam Jets hosted the Mitchell Meteors this weekend for games one and two of their all Ontario finals. Saturday, the Jets kicked ...
Switch yard ball hockey house league returns
Due to the great success of our first year of running the Switch Yard Ball Hockey House League last spring, the Switch Yard is once ...
Midget Jets down a game in All-Ontario finals
The Bierworth family was honoured at the North Hastings arena Saturday night just before Bancroft’s Bierworth Readi-Mix Bantam Jets took the ice to start their ...
Howran inspires at Birds Creek
On Thursday, Tori Howran visited the students at Birds Creek Public School where she herself attended as a kid. Watching all the kids file into ...
Jets soar through the weekend
The Leveque Brother/Rock Breaker Peewee Girl Jets continued to dominate the ice over the weekend. Saturday afternoon the Jets played in Bancroft taking on the Cold ...
Midget B Bancroft Jets advance to eastern loop finals
The Bancroft I.D.A/Canadian Tire Midget B Girls Jets travelled to Frankford on Saturday afternoon to face off against the Cold Creek Comets in their last ...
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Commentaries
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 ...
Poor beautiful Bancroft
March 19, 2019 By Nate Smelle To define the last week as an emotional roller-coaster worldwide would be a gross understatement. With some 1.4 million ...
The forest’s sweet song
March 12, 2019 By Nate Smelle FALLING ASLEEP THE other night looking up at the stars from my bed, I woke the next morning to ...
Open and transparent in Hastings County
March 5, 2019 By Nate Smelle Since sitting in on Limerick Township council’s discussion on Feb. 20 regarding Pancontinental Resources and Hastings Highlands Resources McBride ...
