Council discusses transportation in Hastings Highlands

July 22, 2015

By Nate Smelle During the Wednesday, July 15 meeting of Council in Hastings Highlands, The Rural Overland Utility Transit’s (TROUT’s) executive director Gordon MacDonald answered ...

At large voting meeting date set

Hastings Highlands council has set a date to discuss voting at large with its area constituents.

From the garden to Queen’s Park

“We are people of the soil and we have embraced this project,” said Dianne Eastman, also known as Gnome-y Cline from the North Hastings chapter of the Gnomes for Justice and Equality. “People need to eat. We have to get out of the garden.” The Bancroft this Week stopped by the Place for the Arts to meet the gnomes and discover their origins.

Whitney students smile for new slide

St. Martin of Tours Catholic School students have a new place to play.

Riding the Elephant (Lake Road) with Sheila Davis

By Sara Gottardi On the evening of Friday, July 10, the Art Gallery of Bancroft (AGB) had the chance to meet and digest the wonderfully ...

Milestone reached for Bancroft’s 2017 refugee family

Bancroft’s Social Justice Without Borders (SJWB) has raised a third of the money required to bring a Syrian refugee family to Bancroft.

Council ponders official County plan

By Tony Pearson Bancroft’s town council had a chance to review the draft of Hastings County’s next official plan at a pair of meetings last ...

Opposition to proposed quarry getting louder

By Nate Smelle Opposition to the Proposed Freymond Quarry appears to be growing over the past week, with a number of representatives from the local ...

Artist connects with the Animal Spirit at Wildewood

By Nate Smelle A year after its official opening, the Wlldewood Gallery in Maynooth is hosting its first solo exhibition entitled Animal Spirit. Featuring the ...

Bancroft hears from its wastewater managers

Bancroft council finally heard from the managers of their water and wastewater systems at last week’s council. The representatives, Andy Trader and Ashley Pilgrim, gave a thorough run-down of all the services which the Ontario Clean Water Agency (OCWA) provides to Bancroft, from maintenance and repair to environmental review. And the quality of their work was saluted by several members of council.

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