Jan. 13, 2021 By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter North Hastings Children’s Services put on a guided family drumming meditation on Zoom on Jan. 11. The event was hosted by NHCS’s Indigenous cultural coordinator Trevor Pearce and Kyla Kraft-Romain, ...
Jan. 4, 2021 By Nate Smelle Since news of the roadside zoo safari experience being planned by big cat owners Mark and Tammy Drysdale on ...
Dec. 15, 2020 By Nate Smelle Hastings Highlands council received a delegation at their Dec. 2 meeting from Reverend Marilyn Zehr and Erin Morlock of ...
Jan. 12, 2021 By Nate Smelle In light of the latest projections from the province regarding the spread of COVID-19, on Tuesday afternoon the government ...
Jan. 5, 2021 By Nate Smelle Although the provincial government paused COVID-19 vaccinations over the holidays, the pandemic did not take a break from wreaking ...
Jan. 4, 2021 By Chris Drost While the exact date for the grand reopening of the Sun Run Café in Maynooth has not yet been ...
Dec. 24, 2020 By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter At their Dec. 2 council meeting, South Algonquin council discussed the impending cessation of operations ...
Dec. 22, 2020 By Nate Smelle Each day for eight days starting on Dec. 14, Ontario registered more than 2,000 new cases of COVID-19. With ...
Dec. 8, 2020 By Nate Smelle Hastings-Lennox and Addington MP Derek Sloan has drawn criticism from his fellow Members of Parliament after recently backing a ...
Dec. 2, 2020 By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Starting on Nov. 23, businesses in Ontario were able to apply for the new Canada ...
Dec. 1, 2020 By Chris Drost The Bancroft campus of Loyalist College is not currently open for business but staff members continue to carry out ...
Jan. 13, 2021 By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Limerick Township public works supervisor Darren Naulls sought the advice of the township council on ...
Jan. 12, 2021 By Chris Drost While most are aware of the improvements made to the trails in Eagles Nest Park this past year, some ...
Jan. 12, 2021 By Kristena Schutt-Moore For several years the Anishinaabe Baptiste Community Organization and members of the Kijicho Manito Madaouskarini Algonquin First Nation have ...
Dec. 24, 2020 By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Growing up, no doubt you were told that if you weren’t good all year, you’d ...
Dec. 22, 2020 By Kristena Schutt-Moore The North Hastings Community Cupboard has started assembling the hampers for the annual Christmas hamper program as well as ...
Dec. 15, 2020 By Chris Drost Restrictions in place because of COVID-19 mean that this holiday season, families are having to stay closer to home. ...
Dec. 8, 2020 By Chris Drost The Bancroft Santa Claus parade, organized by the Lions Club and in partnership with the Town of Bancroft, was ...
Dec. 8, 2020 By Nate Smelle When artist Ole Boesberg (AKA Arne Roosman) picks up his paintbrush to create a painting there is almost always ...
Dec. 1, 2020 By Kristena Schutt-Moore Yesterday is gone but the memories remain is both the sentiment and the title of the new book by ...
Dec. 10, 2020 By Nate Smelle For many, music has provided an escape from the escalation of anxiety created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Looking to ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Jan. 12, 2021 By Nate Smelle Sedition, insurrection, insurgency, siege, coup … are all words not to be used lightly. Yet, in the last week ...
Jan. 5, 2021 By Nate Smelle Looking back on the past year it is hard to imagine a scenario in which anyone alive is not ...
Jan. 4, 2021 By Nate Smelle As one year ends and another begins, we find ourselves in that unique window of time where we are ...
Dec. 22, 2020 By Nate Smelle Everybody knows that without his reindeer, Santa Claus would not be able to deliver his presents to children all ...
Dec. 15, 2020 By Nate Smelle With the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine entering the veins of Canadians on Monday, Dec. 14, there is ...
Dec. 8, 2020 By Nate Smelle As we have seen over and over again throughout 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has shone a light on the ...
Dec. 1, 2020 By Nate Smelle When reports of the COVID-19 pandemic’s presence in Ontario first started dominating our daily newsfeed, I was pleasantly surprised ...
Nov. 24, 2020 By Nate Smelle While driving home from a recent meeting with Kelly Wallace of the Think Turtle Conservation Initiative at one of ...
Nov. 17, 2020 By Nate Smelle Last week, the province released its most recent projections regarding what Ontarians can expect in terms of the extent ...
Nov. 11, 2020 By Nate Smelle THE AMOUNT OF NEWS that I have consumed in the last week has been literally staggering. Squeezing in just ...