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COVID-19 updates for week of Feb. 7

February 8, 2022

by MICHAEL RILEYLocal Journalism Initiative Reporter In Canada, since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been 3,096,217 cases of COVID-19, with 34, 381 deaths. During ...

Algonquin Arts Council’s plans for the coming year

BY MICHAEL RILEYLocal Journalism Initiative Reporter While Tudor and Cashel Township council declined to provide a financial donation to the Algonquin Arts Council at their Jan. 11 ...

COVID-19 updates for week of Jan. 31

By MICHAEL RILEYLocal Journalism Initiative ReporterOn Jan. 31, the number of COVID-19 cases in Ontario since Jan. 15, 2020 was 1,103.294 with 3,043 new cases reported. The ...

Cold weather increases the risk of fires

by KRISTENA SCHUTT-MOORE Staff With the chain of snow storms and temperatures droppingpast minus 30 degrees celsius Bancroft This Week reachedout to the Bancroft fire ...

Ontario phased reopening starting Jan. 31

BY MICHAEL RILEYLocal Journalism Initiative Reporter On Jan. 24, there were 4,790 new cases added to the total number of Ontarians with COVID-19, which stands at 1,001,455 ...

Vaccinations keep students returning to school this week safer

MICHAEL RILEYStaff I FIRST CAME UP here to Bancroft to start writing for Bancroft This Week barely a month after the pandemic officially had begun. Now, two years ...

Boyer Family Charitable Fund makes $2,000 donation to hospital

by CHRIS DROSTStaff Brandon Boyer, of Boyer Motors, recently presented Kim Bishop, chair of the North Hastings Fund Development Committee, with a $2,000 donation to ...

Parent starts petition to allow Madawaska students to attend Whitney Public School

by MICHAEL RILEYLocal Journalism Initiative Reporter A petition was started on Jan. 8 on change.org by Madawaska resident Lynsey Aleck to allow school aged children in her town to ...

Libraries return to curbside pick up

By Kristena Schutt-Moore As the province is now in Step Two of the Roadmap to Reopen with modifications, area libraries are returning to curb side ...

Curbside service is more than books at NHPL

By Chris Drost With the return to a modified Stage-2, libraries, including the North Hastings Public Library, have returned to curbside service. What CEO head ...

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