Bancroft group sees progress in meetings with province

March 3, 2015

By Tony Pearson The Bancroft delegation to the annual convention of the Rural Ontario Municipal Association, which took place in Toronto last week, returned with ...

Campground seeks to expand facilities south of Coe Hill

By Jim Eadie Discussion about a rezoning and site plan control bylaw for the Bear Ridge Campground located on The Ridge Road in Wollaston Township ...

Someone left the water on

Bancroft has known for a couple of years that it has a serious problem dealing with its sewer water. The amount it is paying to the Ontario Clear Water Agency (OCWA) to treat its wastewater every year is about half a million dollars — more than it is collecting in fees from those on the sewer system. This is driving the township deeper and deeper into debt. By next year, the debt is expected to soar well over the $2 million mark. It’s a cost level that threatens to erode the town’s future ability to pay its bills.

Thrift warehouse coming to Bancroft

By Nate Smelle For more than 25 years the Supportive Initiatives for Residents of the County of Haliburton (SIRCH) has offered a broad variety of ...

Wollaston may take legal action over dock

Two dozen Wollaston Lake area residents jammed into Coe Hill’s council chambers for council’s regular meeting July 26. They were anticipating some fireworks, but at the end of discussion it was more of a fizzle.

Seniors contact service looking for volunteers

By Tony Pearson Trudy Edwards is a very sociable person. But her socializing isn’t just the normal exchange of news or gossip with friends and ...

Local doctor loses licence

A Coe Hill doctor has lost his right to practice medicine, but that isn’t slowing his desire to care for the community.

Sustainability an important ingredient to chocolatier

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.

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