Fatal fire at retirement centre

March 15, 2018

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

Ontario by Bike Network rolls into town

The Ontario by Bike Network rolled into Bancroft March 6 and conducted a workshop with nearly 50 local small business and service persons to assist them to be more prepared to welcome cycle tourists.

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.

Boards divided by union proposal

The idea of a union library isn’t new to North Hastings municipalities, according to Southern Ontario Library Service library development consultant Peggy Malcolm. She’s worked in the area since 1996.

County conundrum: official plan denied by province

Hastings County council is none too pleased the province has some changes for its draft official plan according to council Warden Rodney Cooney.

NHHS gains special programming

The school will introduce a Community Integration Program this September. It starts students with developmental disabilities on the path to an Ontario Secondary School Certificate — not the same as an Ontario Secondary School Diploma but formally recognized by the Ministry of Education.

Bancroftians helping get clean water to Guatemalans

Two North Hastings natives found themselves sitting together in Nicaragua. They’d travelled there with the same circle of friends for a holiday. Though they’d travelled as mutual friends of friends in the past, the pair had never found a quiet space themselves to really get to know each other away from the group.

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