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

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 ...

AS TIME PASSES, we humans tend to become more fixated on finding answers to difficult questions. Often the older we get, the deeper and more challenging these queries become. Like curious children ...

The agenda for the Dec. 9 Wollaston council meeting was a full one that included two delegations from Sarah Dunjko concerning her desire to start up a vendor/farmers market and board members of the ...

I attended my first ever friends for dinner this past weekend and it gave me a lot to reflect on as we head into the holiday season. While it was not the biggest turn out—it was -18 degrees with a ...

Well, we are only a week away from that holiest of holy days when Santa Claus comes to town and drops off a load of presents for the local kids who found their way onto his “Nice List” in 2025. With ...

DURING MY HOUR-LONG conversation with Kevin Taylor about his motivation for starting friends for dinner, he stated very bluntly that, while Friends for Dinner is not a Christian initiative, his ...