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Sustainability an important ingredient to chocolatier

February 24, 2015

By Harold Eastman “It was an accident.” This revelation about the beginnings of Shaun Sellers’ chocolate business comes as a bit of a surprise. If ...

‘If you see it for yourself … you believe it’

For a child to be able to hold a real live little fish in his or her hand, look into its eyes, feel the scales, feel it wiggle and see the absolute beauty in nature right up close is not an opportunity a surprising number of youth have ever experienced. Twenty locally connected Wollaston youth aged nine to 12 attended the fourth annual award winning Wollaston Young Stewards Environmental camp this past week, and it was surprising how many had never caught a fish before.

Disconcerted residents question Hastings Highlands council

While Hastings Highlands chambers were packed with ratepayers seeking answers, curbside garbage collection failed to appear on the agenda, on Wednesday, July 20.

Town cleaning up parks

The Town of Bancroft is working on a new clean up initiative to keep needles out of our public spaces and parks.

Local filmmakers take Bancroft to big screen at Film Festival

Look out world – Bancroft hits the big screen this month at the Belleville Downtown International Documentary Film Festival! Now in its fourth year, ‘DocFest,’ ...

Airport wants to become more active in the community

Bancroft Community Airport (BCA) has a new airport manager and he’s looking to raise awareness in the community.

Community art project brings families together

By Nate Smelle Continuing their work in bringing families closer together the North Hastings Children’s Services (NHCS) celebrated the Family Day weekend at the Bancroft ...

Artist documents a quickly melting Arctic in paint

By Nate Smelle Artist Linda Lang sure has been busy. In the past year she has opened Bancroft’s first painting lounge and gallery space Brush ...

Local artist unleashes dinosaur in New Jersey

By Sara Valsoney Hastings Highlands-based artist Kevin Hockley recently unveiled his prehistoric re-creation of the Liopleurodon he has been constructing in his home studio. The ...

Urban artist finds inspiration in Bancroft

By Harold Eastman Artist James Fowler is heading into his second consecutive all-nighter. Armed with bags of Twizlers, bite-size KitKats and a tub of Jujubes, ...

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