Growth is not the answer

March 26, 2019

March 26, 2019 By Nate Smelle With the water and wastewater rates in Bancroft about to go up again it is difficult to see a ...

Poor beautiful Bancroft

March 19, 2019 By Nate Smelle To define the last week as an emotional roller-coaster worldwide would be a gross understatement. With some 1.4 million ...

The forest’s sweet song

March 12, 2019 By Nate Smelle FALLING ASLEEP THE other night looking up at the stars from my bed, I woke the next morning to ...

Open and transparent in Hastings County

March 5, 2019 By Nate Smelle Since sitting in on Limerick Township council’s discussion on Feb. 20 regarding Pancontinental Resources and Hastings Highlands Resources McBride ...

No room for misinterpretation in Limerick

Feb. 26, 2019 By Nate Smelle Until last week, there had been little to report on the controversial mining project being proposed in Limerick Township ...

Environmental protection and the letter W

Feb. 19, 2019 By Nate Smelle If there is a more romantic way to spend one’s Valentine’s Day evening than listening to Ontario’s environmental commissioner ...

Breathing in the ocean

Feb. 14, 2019 By Nate Smelle While waiting out a freakishly intense snowstorm that grounded thousands of travellers overnight at the airport in Toronto on ...