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 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 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 ...

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

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 ...

Bancroft residents from all walks of life set aside their differences March 25 to support one woman who says she can't be their voice anymore — not alone. The result is a new committee, supported by ...

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 ...

December 10, Human Rights Day, marks the end of the 16 Days of Activism against gender-based violence, and on that day Maggie’s Resource Centre of North Hastings will be posting information on their ...

On Dec. 14, “the cutest little parade you ever did see,” as it’s called, wound its way through downtown Whitney beginning at 1 p.m. In previous years, Tarrah Hovinga, Ramona Brown, Gloria Beauclair ...

At their recent meeting held Nov. 25 Bancroft’s committee of the whole received a report from manager of infrastructure and capital projects, Jake Krupa, on the Minimum Maintenance Standards at the ...