Bancroft this Week

Crokinole on hiatus

By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Mayor Libby Clarke began Crokinole game nights in Tudor and Cashel Township back in 2016. While the COVID-19 ...

HH council directs staff to create exotic animal bylaw

By Nate Smelle With Hastings County developing an exotic animal bylaw template for local municipalities to use; and, both Limerick Township and the Municipality of ...

William O’Brien: 100 years and still going strong

By Kristena Schutt-Moore Born in the post First World War era, William ‘Bill’ O’Brien was born on May 6, 1921, and this year he celebrates ...

The birth of a new system

By Nate Smelle On May 25, 2020 the life of George Floyd was snuffed out on camera by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the ...

Tudor and Cashel family cleans up their road

By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter On its Facebook page on April 15, Tudor and Cashel Township gave a shout out to locals Melissa ...

Ares wins Quinte Regional Science and Technology Fair

By Kristena Schutt-Moore On Sunday, April 11 Ares Worsley was announced as the winner of the Quinte Regional Science and Technology Fair. Ares started two ...

Educational campaign about shoreline protection is underway

By Chris Drost An organization that calls itself BeShore Haliburton has emerged in Haliburton out of a bylaw aimed at protecting shorelines that has been ...

Time, energy, and money

By Nate Smelle By the time this newspaper ends up in the hands of most readers, Earth Day will have come and gone. Luckily, for ...

Homelessness and poverty driving opioid crisis in North Hastings

By Nate Smelle To gain insight into the opioid epidemic and how it is impacting people in North Hastings, over the past month Bancroft This ...

Water plant’s new roof in place

By Kristena Schutt-Moore Veolia Environmental Services is the company that Bancroft hired to manage the town’s water and waste water services. Every year they make ...