Bancroft this Week

Students learn to Think Indigenous

By Nate Smelle York River Public School (YRPS) students from Junior kindergarten to grade 8 assembled in the gymnasium first thing Thursday morning to begin ...

Acknowledging truth

By Nate Smelle THE WORDS “TRUTH AND reconciliation seem to be appearing in the mainstream media more and more these days without much explanation behind ...

Nurse practitioner now seeing patients in Bancroft

By Tony Pearson For nurse-practitioner Christine McDowell, practicing medicine in Bancroft has a number of advantages. She loves working as part of the patient-centred, full-service ...

Turnaround year shaping up for business start-ups in Wollaston

By Jim Eadie The summer of 2015 is shaping up to be a remarkable turnaround year for business start-ups in Wollaston Township, and there is ...

Red Apple stays up late to help people living with mental illness and addiction

By Nate Smelle Employees at the Red Apple department store in downtown Bancroft and across the country pulled an all-nighter on Friday, May 29 for ...

Council votes ‘No’ on vegetative buffer bylaw

By Nate Smelle After investing a great deal of time and resources into improving shoreline protection throughout the municipality over the last nine months, Council ...

My favourite hat

By Nate Smelle TALKING WITH MEMBERS from a few of the Lake Associations in Hastings Highlands following Council’s decision not to approve the proposed amendments ...

Mary Gauthier to perform at The Arlington

By Nate Smelle Fresh off her music-filled tour of Ireland, the internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter, Mary Gauthier will be stopping over in Maynooth to perform a ...