April 2015 Archive

Mixed bag in Wollaston budget discussion

By Jim Eadie, Special to This Week About a dozen Wollaston Township ratepayers attended the municipality’s public meeting on the evening of April 7 at ...

Nature Discovery Tours observe local elk herd

Nature Discovery Tour guide Barry Wannamaker has been involved with the Elk Restoration Project since its beginning more than 15 years ago. He was part ...

SIRCH Thrift Warehouse draws huge crowd at grand opening

By Nate Smelle People were lined up early on the morning of Saturday, April 4 for the grand opening of SIRCH’s new Thrift Warehouse in ...

Hastings Highlands to purchase new loader

By Nate Smelle The following are series of brief reports the meeting of Council in Hastings Highlands on Wednesday, April 1. During the meeting Council ...

Go with the flow

By Nate Smelle FOR THE LAST MONTH EVERY shred of spare time I have had has gone into preparing for the big flow. The first ...

Youth survey indicates both problems and needs

By Tony Pearson Not surprisingly, a majority of respondents agreed with statements that they would hit back if attacked, and that it was normal, that ...

CAO Lambe outlines strategic analysis

By Tony Pearson Bancroft Township Chief Administrative Officer Hazel Lambe presented a SWOT analysis to town council’s Committee of the Whole last week – an ...

Baptiste family reconnects with their heritage

By Jenn Watt At 79 years old, Eleanor Yateman Baptiste is getting a new name The Algonquin woman with ancestry firmly rooted in the Bancroft ...

Happy, Healthy Parents – Happy, Healthy Kids with author Ann Douglas

By Sara Gottardi On Tuesday, March 31 author Ann Douglas from Peterborough came to speak at the “Happy, Healthy Parents – Happy, Healthy Kids” presentation ...

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