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T-Hawks minor football team issued two-year suspension
By Bill Kilpatrick On May 25, Scott Giroux, the Commissioner for the Quinte Skyhawks Minor Football League, issued a decision to suspend the Bancroft T-Hawks Minor Football Team from the league for the remainder of the 2025 season as well ...
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 ...
Severe wind storm causes widespread damage in Bird’s Creek
By Nate Smelle Residents of Bird’s Creek were forced to take cover on the afternoon of April 29 as a powerful windstorm swept through the ...
100 + Women Who Care award funding to BCT
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Limerick hosts successful EV car fire demo
By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Limerick fire department hosted a successful demonstration at their fire hall on April 29 on EV car ...
Carney’s Liberals mount historic comeback; Kramp-Neuman re-elected in HLAT
By Nate Smelle As of late Tuesday morning, with 256 out of 258 polls reporting, Conservative incumbent Shelby Kramp-Neuman was officially re-elected in the riding ...
Bancroft chapter of the Beavers donate to NHCC
By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Beavers with the 1st Bancroft Beavers, Cubs and Scouts, donated 75 pounds of non-perishable food items to ...
Community News
Second year for United Way HPE Hygiene Product Drive
By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter United Way Hastings Prince Edward is launching a targeted Hygiene Product Drive for its second year, according to ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
Hastings Centennial Manor gets donation from Legion
By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Stacy Talsma, president of the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 181 in Bancroft, sent a media release to Bancroft ...
Tudor and Cashel Township volunteers shown some love
By Michael Riley Local Journalism Inititiative Reporter Tudor and Cashel Township had a roast beef dinner event thanking all their volunteers for a job well ...
APFTA NHHS student art show coming April 2
By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A Place for the Arts will be hosting the fourth annual North Hastings High School student art show ...
Metcalfe talks North Hastings Music Festival
By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter With the North Hastings Music Festival coming back from May 5 to 9, Gillian Metcalfe, president of the ...
Foster Lake Winter Carnival postponed due to snowstorm
By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Carlow Mayo Township’s Winter Carnival at Foster Lake was supposed to be held on Feb. 16 at Foster ...
Huskies to compete in Bay of Quinte
By Bill Kilpatrick After an up-and-down year for the North Hastings High School junior and senior girl’s volleyball teams, both teams pulled off some important ...
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Huskies to compete in Bay of Quinte
By Bill Kilpatrick After an up-and-down year for the North Hastings High School junior and senior girl’s volleyball teams, both teams pulled off some important ...
Huskies win silver and gold
By Bill Kilpatrick The North Hastings Highschool senior and junior boys’ volleyball teams are on fire this year as both teams moved on from the ...
U-15 Bancroft Jets Girls host friendly tournament
By Melissa Armstrong Bancroft Jets Girls U-15 hockey team hosted the Ennismore Eagles, Otonabee Wolverines and Ottawa Valley Thunder for a friendly mini tournament on ...
NHHS Huskies continue to break records
By Bill Kilpatrick Last year the North Hastings High School track and field team had what coach Barb Gillis described as an “outstanding year,” adding ...
Elvis Stojko performs at the BSC Carnival
By Kaitlin Sylvester The Bancroft Skating Club hosted its highly anticipated annual fundraiser on April 6 at the Bancroft arena. The event that brought together ...
Whitney Minor Baseball returns in May
By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Minor baseball is coming back to Whitney in May, after many years’ absence. The Whitney Recreation Committee announced ...
First youth sports fair held at York River Public School
By Bill Kilpatrick On Wednesday March 20 from 6-8 p.m. York River Public School held the first North Hastings Youth Sport Registration Fair. The event ...
Winning season continues for Bancroft U-15 Girls Jets
By Nate Smelle The Bancroft U-15 Girls Jets are having a truly remarkable 2023/2024 season.This amazing group of up and coming hockey stars has been ...
Hastings Snowshoe Hustle cancelled due to weather
By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter With Mother Nature refusing to cooperate, the Hastings Snowshoe Hustle, scheduled for March 10 at Camp Cedar Ridge ...
Huskies’ wrestlers headed to Ontario championship
By Bill Kilpatrick Three wrestlers from North Hastings High School are headed to Stoney Creek, near Hamilton, for the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations ...
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Tricky Doug
By Bill Kilpatrick I was introduced to a new term the other day by historian Timothy Snyder and it’s called a sadopopulist. Yes, I can ...
Strong mayor weak democracy
By Bill Kilpatrick Speaking to his new Strong Mayor Powers that were granted to him on May 1, Hastings Highlands Mayor Tony Fitzgerald said that ...
Common ground
By Nate Smelle Less than 24 hours after Prime Minister-elect Mark Carney met with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office and told him ...
Making sense?
By Bill Kilpatrick While it’s no secret that I’m not a fan of Pierre Poilievre, it might surprise you to know that I’m also not ...
Go green for mental health this May
By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter May is mental health awareness month, and it’s a good time to acknowledge that it’s okay to not ...
Thoughts on freedom
By Bill Kilpatrick The name Milton Friedman is much more common now than it was some 60 years ago when he penned his now well-known ...
This too shall pass
By Bill Kilpatrick It’s hard to be a student of modern European history and have hope these days. An amusing cartoon with a father and ...
The future we face
By Bill Kilpatrick As I sit to write this editorial Canada is a mere seven days away from electing a new prime minister and the ...
Redefining value
By Nate Smelle It is Monday, April 21 and in a week from now Canadians will elect our next Prime Minister. As critical as this ...
No time for parrots and praise
By Nate Smelle Every time we are faced with an election in Canada, we are told to “get out and vote, because this election is ...
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