The following are brief reports of items discussed at Bancroft council on Dec. 3.

While it appears Bancroft’s sky-high police costs are likely to come down in 2015, councillors are concerned it will get worse before it gets better.

WITH CHRISTMAS JUST around the corner there seems to be no escape from the pressures of the commercial forces squeezing the sacred out of the holiday.

South African President Jacob Zuma was booed and jeered at a memorial to anti-apartheid legend Nelson Mandela on Tuesday.

Drugs, lies and videotape.

Have you ever been inside the Bancroft Village Playhouse? Many of you have been to some event at the Playhouse because so much happens there.

The Bancroft IDA/ Parkview Dental Midget Girl Jets played in the 33rd annual Peterborough IceKats girls tournament this past weekend.

The North Hastings Huskies claimed the school’s first-ever football championship back on Oct. 31 with a thrilling 25-24 victory.

On Oct. 3, 2012, Ellie Sanderson’s life changed drastically while returning home to Bancroft from Haliburton.

STANDING ALONG THE side of Old Detlor Road waiting for the first car to race by and begin the 43rd annual Rally of the Tall Pines I started thinking

On Nov. 17 Naval Cadet (NCdt) Gillian Plumb from the local sea cadet corps 229 Viking graduated from the basic officer training course.

To the Editor,The purpose of this article is to make people aware that beech bark disease is in Ontario and is in the Bancroft area.

Dr. Melissa Fransky grew up and went to school in Bancroft and dreamed of returning one day to practice medicine.

More serious talk and suggestions of a rural rebellion against the County of Hastings.

More than 150 people gathered at the Old Community Centre in Maynooth on Saturday, Nov. 30 to share in an early Christmas feast and show their support