At their Feb. 4 council meeting, Faraday Township council endorsed the forthcoming Alto high speed rail corridor coming soon which will link Toronto, Peterborough, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City, ...

On Wednesday, April 23, the Bancroft Area Stewardship Council, in partnership with Trent University, the Whitney and Area Algonquins, Algonquin Provincial Park, the Algonquin Forestry Authority, and ...

According to a Dec. 30 press release by the east region headquarters of the OPP, which includes the Bancroft area, “The number of impaired drivers continues to increase.” By Jan 3, the festive RIDE ...

As heatwaves scorch southern Ontario, wildfires rage across Canada and the United States, and catastrophic flooding claims hundreds of lives in Texas, we find ourselves once again at the mercy of a ...

Bancroft Brewing Company is moving into the old McCaskie building in downtown Bancroft, but the road to get there has been anything but easy. Bancroft This Week sat down with the owner and operator ...

The Carlow Off Road Event returned on Saturday, Aug. 3. Drivers of megatrucks, side-by-sides and drag vehicles gathered at 333 New Carlow Road to tear up the courses. After two years of hiatus due to ...

Former North Hastings resident and Nurse Practitioner Clarissa Townsend has always felt a calling to work with people. It was this drive and desire to make a difference in people’s lives that led her ...

In honour of International Women’s Day that was celebrated on March 8, I want to take a look at the life of Rosa Luxemburg, the early twentieth century Polish socialist revolutionary. Given that there ...

In his 1978 book entitled The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera spoke about how to resist powerful forces through the simple act of remembering and preserving the past. He said “The ...

It was a day of firsts on Nov. 15 as the Canadian Peace Museum hosted their first official event celebrating the release of ‘Twas A Sunny Day a memoir of 93-year-old Wollaston resident artist Arne ...

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 ...

When the Emergency Management Group that conducted the Fire Service Review for the municipality of Hastings Highlands completed their report, they stated that “it was quite evident that the Hastings ...