Bancroft this Week

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 ...

Local students participate in Quinte Regional Science Fair

By Bill Kilpatrick On April 5 Grade 8 student Ares Worsley and Grade 10 student Thomas Love from North Hastings High School traveled to Centennial ...

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 ...

Sod breaking ceremony for fibre optic cables in South Algonquin

By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter South Algonquin Township and Algonquin Fibre had a sod breaking ceremony in Whitney on April 16 for the ...

Bancroft council considers changes to Bag Tag Program

By Nate Smelle At the April 8 council meeting, Bancroft’s general manager, Andra Kauffeldt, presented a report recommending significant changes to the town’s waste management ...

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 ...

Garrett Gilbart’s Terra Precarium art opening a metallic art feast

By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Art Gallery of Bancroft had the grand opening of Garrett Gilbart’s show Terra Precarium on April 3. ...

Carlow Mayo levies tax rate increase of 3.98 per cent for 2025

By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Carlow Mayo Township council had a final discussion and passed their 2025 budget at their meeting on April ...

Community members supportive of Peace Museum

By Bill Kilpatrick On March 2 the North Hastings Community Trust held a meeting where they announced that they were gifting their property and building ...