Community to Jam for Jesse

April 4, 2018

Maynoothians and community members from Hastings Highlands and surrounding area are coming together to help a local musician.

Hastings Highlands approves 2018 budget

Hastings Highlands ratepayers won’t see an increase in their municipal tax rate in 2018.

Bancroft council will sit with ratepayers committee: councillor

Bancroft residents from all walks of life set aside their differences March 25 to support one woman who says she can’t be their voice anymore — not alone. The result is a new committee, supported by councillors, provincial candidates and ratepayers alike.

Bancroft water and sewer rates to increase

Water and wastewater was back on the agenda March 13 for Bancroft council.

Bancroft councillor resigns, says he’s not finished with politics

Kilpatrick hosted a rally at A Place for the Arts Saturday morning to announce he had submitted his letter of resignation to Bancroft Mayor Paul Jenkins earlier that day.

Fatal fire at retirement centre

An elderly woman was found dead in a fire at R.J. Brooks Living Centre.

Suspicious man offers child ride

Bancroft OPP wants you to remind your children not to talk to strangers. The detachment reports a stranger offered a Cardiff child a ride March 5. The man is described as middle-aged with a dark complexion. His car was “black, old and dirty” and he was wearing “a black ball cap and black sweater.”

Joint fire chief possible for Limerick, Wollaston, Madoc

Heads of three municipal councils, along with some councillors and staff, met March 5 in Madoc Township to continue discussing the possibility of hiring a full-time fire chief for their departments. Limerick, Wollaston and Madoc townships are currently in discussion. Also affected would be Tudor and Cashel Township which doesn’t have a fire department but purchases service from Limerick.

New fire regulations could cost rural residents

Proposed provincial legislation for Ontario’s firefighters could cost North Hastings Fire Service nearly $15,000 per new firefighter.

Bossio sees benefits in Canada’s Budget 2018

“There were lots of things in here that benefit rural Canadians and my riding in particular,” Hastings-Lennox and Addington MP Mike Bossio said following the release of Canada’s 2018 budget.

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