Playhouse line-up packed for holiday celebrations

November 25, 2015

It’s starting to look a lot like Christmas with a festive December schedule at the Bancroft Village Playhouse. With events including live music, films and ...

Businesses decorate trees for hospital fundraiser

Auxiliary vice-president Mike Brooks, director Patti Erwin, and past president Rose Goodwin with the banner and welcome tree at the cafe entrance. TONY PEARSON Special ...

Martin family receives forestry legacy award

The Bancroft Area Forest Industry Association is celebrating 2017 by honouring one of the oldest forest industry families in the area.

Pepin’s No Frills celebrates a decade in business

Pepin’s No Frills celebrated their 10th year anniversary in Bancroft on Tuesday, Nov. 17. Not only have they been a staple here in town as ...

Community consults on children’s mental health

Mental illness is more than a health condition. It can handicap people to the point of rendering them economically and socially disadvantaged. This can begin in childhood. Mental illness — showing up as learning difficulties or behavioural problems — can reduce a young person’s ability to advance academically. This in turn can hamper job prospects, and make it difficult to earn an independent living.

OPP recover stolen plates in fuel theft investigation

On Nov. 19 at approximately 1 p.m., police received a report of a vehicle having filled up with fuel at the Canadian Tire Gas Bar in ...

Businesses to stay open late for Maynooth Madness

Main street Maynooth will be open extended hours till 9 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 27 as part of the third annual Moonlight Madness. The evening ...

Government reviewing assisted dying eligibility

People being denied access to medical assistance in dying are the subject of a review announced by Jane Philpott, Minister of Health, and Jody Wilson-Raybould, Minister of Justice and Attorney General, on Dec. 13.