100 + Women Who Care award funding to BCT

June 3, 2025

By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter At their second meeting of 2025 on May 28 at the Bancroft Village Playhouse, the 100+ Women Who ...

The end of a musical era at NHHS

By Bill Kilpatrick When music educator Dianne Winmill, formerly Garbutt, first arrived at North Hastings Highschool in 1995 to teach music, things were not looking ...

Strong mayor powers given to Hastings Highlands

By Bill Kilpatrick On April 9 the government of Ontario announced that on May 1 they were adding 169 municipalities to the current 47 municipalities ...

Movie Music Memories at L’Amable Bible Chapel

By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The North Hastings Community Choir put on a spring recital called “Movie Music Memories” at the L’Amable Bible ...

Bancroft Scouts experience SCUBA diving

By Bill Kilpatrick On May 12 members of the Bancroft scouting group got to experience what it’s like to go SCUBA diving. The scouts traveled ...

Bancroft Lions Club Dog Walk set for May 25

By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Bancroft Lions Club presents the Pet Valu Walk for Dog Guides, coming back to Bancroft on May ...

Snooker tourney raises just under $4,000 for Hospice North Hastings

By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Shamrock Club in L’Amable had a three-day snooker tournament from May 2 to 4 at the Dungannon ...

Baptist Church holds fundraiser for the unhoused

By Bill Kilpatrick On May 9 Rod Moffitt held a piano concert at the Community Fellowship Baptist Church to raise money to help support the ...

Bancroft hospital gets $20,000 donation

By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Local resident Tom Simpson presented the Fund Development Committee at the Quinte Health North Hastings Hospital with a gift ...