Common sacred ground

January 27, 2015

By Nate Smelle IN RESPONSE TO JANE FREYMOND’S Letter to the Editor Re: God is Great? in last week’s edition of Bancroft This Week. I ...

The value of volunteers

By Nate Smelle A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO I asked question, “where would we be without our volunteers?” Every week I spend wandering about the ...

God is great?

By Nate Smelle I WAS ENJOYING MY MORNING coffee on Wednesday, Jan. 7 while at the same time keeping an eye on the news when I ...

We’re exceptional, not the exception

You’re not special. Yes, you, my friend, are as plain and simple as the rest of us. I’m sure you’re a beautiful person, but honestly, we’re all beautiful people.

A Hungry one

Where would we be without our volunteers?

Small municipalities… between a rock and a hard place

By Jim Eadie The past several years have witnessed a recurring theme on many different levels for small municipal governments. The province of Ontario sets ...

Transparency to come with digital age?

While helping me move to Bancroft last weekend, my mother and I had the most blink-worthy conversation I’ve had in a long time.

Looking forward

By Nate Smelle INTERVIEWING PEOPLE and writing down their stories each week one begins to notice patterns and cycles that take place in and around ...