Bancroft this Week

Students join federal youth council

Three students from North Hastings High School (NHHS) have been selected for the area’s federal youth council.

Hastings Highlands council discusses costs of curbside garbage pick-up

Beaumen Waste Management Systems Ltd has presented Hastings Highlands council with a solution to its garbage conflict — and it isn’t curbside pick-up.

Kudos to the community’s front-line workers

It is important to remember our front line workers — the heroes that continue to protect our ways of life. Area first responders — men and women of the North Hastings Fire Service, Hastings-Quinte Paramedic Services and the Bancroft OPP detachment — risk their lives for our safety every day. Area secondary responders — men and women of North Hastings Children’s Services, Maggie’s Resource Centre of North Hastings and others — work every day to defend the rights of everyday people in everyday ways.

Staff Sgt. Tim Spence officially named detachment commander

Bancroft’s OPP Staff Sgt. Tim Spence is now the local detachment’s commander.

County nominates new warden

Hastings County council will have a new warden later this year.

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.