Bancroft this Week

Krampus is coming to town

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 ...

Joint Municipal Physician Recruitment and Retention Committee to end in 2021

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 ...

Community Cupboard puts on Christmas dinner

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 ...

Lockdown begins Boxing Day as COVID-19 cases surge

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 ...

A special Christmas

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 ...

Residents urge council to take action against racism in HH

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 ...

COVID-19 driving live Christmas tree sales this year

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. ...

A shot in the arm

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 ...

MP Derek Sloan talks COVID-19, vaccines, and ‘The Great Reset’

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 ...