By Bill Kilpatrick On Sept. 5 the first half of the Truth and Reconciliation art exhibit entitled Truth opened at the Art Gallery of Bancroft. The opening reception on Sept. 7 was attended by over 200 patrons who were lined ...
By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Back for its 31st year, the Bancroft and area Autumn Studio Tour delighted attendees with the various wares ...
By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Shawano Rate Payers Inc. on Dickey Lake raised money from an annual swim they do to support ...
By Bill Kilpatrick On Sept. 20 from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Kevin Taylor, chair of the board for Little Blue Cabins, along with the ...
By Nate Smelle In 1981 the United Nations General Assembly declared Sept. 21 the International Day of Peace. Since then, each year people around the ...
By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Whitney Seniors New Outlook is putting on an Art Show, Raffle and Bake Sale at the Whitney ...
By Bill Kilpatrick Connor Dorey, who is now going into his third month as the new Chief Executive Officer for Hastings County, spoke to Bancroft ...
By Bill Kilpatrick On Sept. 10 just after 7 a.m., John Scaife and Dante Gentles, residents at the apartment building at 21 Valley View drive, ...
By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter United Way Hastings Prince Edward’s Backpacks for Success program has been a big success this year and organizers ...
By Nate Smelle On Friday, Aug. 18, 50 registered nurses, public health nurses and registered practical nurses with the Hastings and Prince Edward Public Health ...
By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Tim Pidduck, general manager/secretary-treasurer of the Crowe Valley Conservation Authority took centre stage at the Limerick Township council ...
By Nate Smelle Award-winning Canadian filmmakers, Allison Duke and Ngardy Conteh George recently launched a new five-part docu-series they co-produced called Black Community Mixtapes. The ...
By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Maple Leaf Snow Skimmers held a private event on Sept. 23 at their maintenance facility at 348 ...
By Bill Kilpatrick On Sept. 9 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. the Shamrock Club held an open house at the Dungannon Recreation Centre in ...
By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Linda Hutsell-Manning did a book reading on Sept. 5 at the Madawaska Hall in Madawaska for her book ...
By Bill Kilpatrick On Saturday, Sept. 9 the Maynooth Forest Play Nature School held an open house where potential students and parents could explore, ask ...
By Bill Kilpatrick The British neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks once said, “It is the fate – the genetic and neural fate – of every ...
By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Zumba classes are coming to the Faraday Community Centre starting on Sept. 18, courtesy of the Faraday Recreation ...
By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Limerick Economic Development Committee had their Artisan Craft Market at Limerick Lake Lodge on Aug. 19 and ...
By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Township of South Algonquin Public Library will be welcoming author Linda Hutsell-Manning to talk about her book ...
By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Fort Stewart Jamboree was on last weekend and was a big success and well attended, despite the ...
By Nate Smelle Algonquin athlete Bernie Hogan has been on a roll. At the recent Masters Indigenous Games held in Ottawa from Aug. 24 to ...
By Bill Kilpatrick On Saturday, June 10 the Bancroft T-Hawks minor football team hosted the Trent Hills Titans at North Hastings High School in their ...
By Bill Kilpatrick The year is shaping up well for the North Hastings High School Huskies track and field team. On May 17 450 athletes ...
By Nate Smelle 2022 has proven to be another successful year for competitive runner and snowshoer Bernie Hogan. Hogan began this past season on July ...
By Kristena Schutt-Moore Bernie Hogan has been racing on snowshoes for the past three years, and this year he swept the competition away. He took ...
By Kristena Schutt-Moore The graduating students of North Hastings High School returned to the ice of the North Hastings Community Centre on Friday, April 1. ...
By Nate Smelle The North Hastings Community Centre is once again abuzz with the sounds of hockey. Along with the cheerful atmosphere around the rink, ...
The game is changing for young hockey families. Initiate level, tyke and novice players won’t be returning to the same ice dynamics they remember for the next few years.
The Bierworth Readi-Mix Bantam Jets were on the road Saturday for game three of their series against the Mitchell Meteors. Being down two games to ...
Bancroft Gems Gymnastics students practice their skills as part of the new weekly open gym format, offered every Saturday afternoon to members and non-members alike ...
By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter World Alzheimer’s Day was on Sept. 21 and according to the Alzheimer’s Society of Canada, nearly 50 million ...
By Bill Kilpatrick One of the main premises that any liberal-democratic society must be based on is the notion of individual liberty, meaning that, in ...
By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Constable Joel Devenish, community safety/media relations officer with the Bancroft detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police issued a ...
By Nate Smelle There are no words to describe the pain and anguish that the people of Maui are feeling in the wake of the ...
By Nate Smelle Is there anything more valuable than peace? Since chatting with the Canadian Peace Museum’s founder and CEO, Chris Houston last week, I ...
By Nate Smelle Growing up in a household where the weather channel regularly dominated the television screen, since my childhood I have always had an ...
By Nate Smelle Well, if the blanket of wildfire smoke that has been smothering us on a regular basis this summer wasn’t enough of a ...
By Nate Smelle June is a very special month in Ontario. It is when the trilliums bloom, the birds and the turtles nest, and the ...
By Nate Smelle As the old saying goes: “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.” Usually this statement is used metaphorically, with the intention of acknowledging that ...
By Nate Smelle One would think that with the stench of the COVID-19 pandemic still lingering in our hospitals and graveyards throughout Ontario and around ...
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