By Mike Riley Limerick Township council discussed an informal meeting they had virtually on Nov. 26 to discuss a growing Milfoil problem on their lakes at their meeting on Dec. 15, looking at ...

By Bill Kilpatrick On Jan. 2 the Art Gallery of Bancroft held an opening reception for their first feature artist of 2026 ...

By Nate Smelle With the new year now underway, the Town of Bancroft is reflecting on a busy and transformative 2025, marked by major investments, community celebrations, cultural revitalization, ...

By Chris Houston If you love the type of crime and justice stories where there is a clear conclusion and the bad guy goes to jail, you’re not gonna like this column. This week, I share four ...

By Bill Kilpatrick Sitting with my mother over the Christmas holidays chatting about current events, she paused, as we were talking about President Donald Trump’s erratic behaviour, and tears ...

In the fourth game of provincial play downs, the Leveque Brothers/Rock Breaker Bancroft Peewee Girls' Jets were in Haliburton on home ice to see the Peterborough Ice Kats. From the first faceoff, the ...

It appears that enough Ontario voters showed up to hand Doug Ford and the Progressive Conservative Party a third majority government in the 2025 provincial election. It was just after 9 p.m. when it ...

AT THIS POINT, it should come as no surprise to anyone living in Bancroft—or anywhere in Ontario, for that matter—that affordability has become one of the defining issues of our time. The Carney ...

Wilberforce and Cardiff elementary school students gathered in a circle at the Lloyd Watson Centre on April 27 to celebrate Indigenous culture through lessons, performances and workshops. “In circle, ...

WoodShare, a local organization that provides emergency firewood to those in need throughout North Hastings, are holding their first fundraising concert called Woodstack, a play on the 1969 Woodstock ...

The Bancroft Masonic Lodge has started to meet once again since the start of COVID-19, and now they will start with a new set of officers. During their meeting on Monday, Sept. 12 the new officers ...

For those waiting with bated breath for part two of my series on the unwellness industry, you’re just going to have to wait longer. I realized that there was so much more to say about that interview ...