McRae Lumber History – from information from Algonquin Harvest by Donald L. Lloyd (2006). Submitted by Larry McTaggart Post date: 2015-08-18 17:26:41 Post date GMT: 2015-08-18 21:26:41 Post modified ...

By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Tudor and Cashel Township unveiled their new township signage featuring ...

By Bill Kilpatrick On Feb 1, to kick off fraud prevention month, the Bancroft detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police released a “scam warning” for the residents of their catchment area pointing ...

By Nate Smelle On June 5, the Ford government passed Bill-5, formally titled the Protecting Ontario by Unleashing Our Economy Act. While the bill is presented as a tool for economic acceleration, ...

According to Wendy Sue Keating, CEO and head librarian at the Hastings Highlands Public Library, they had a record year regarding their participation in the TD Summer Reading Challenge and the TD ...

By Nate Smelle 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 ...

By Nate Smelle Thanks to the support of Banroft council, the Canadian Peace Museum is now one step closer to making the community the Peace Capital of Canada. The museum’s president Chris Houston ...

By Bill Kilpatrick Taylor Reads, a contest that closely mimics the CBC reading contest called Canada Reads, is an Indigenous novel contest that was the brain child of North Hastings High School ...

By Bill Kilpatrick 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.

By Nate Smelle DRIVING THROUGH BANCROFT on April Fool’s Day, I noticed a small, ragtag gang of protesters standing along the roadside parking lot at Bancroft’s Millennium Park carrying signs bearing ...

By Kimberly McMunn Special to This Week Community Futures Development Corporation of North and Central Hastings, and South Algonquin, executive director, Mary Lynn Rutledge, and loan officer and small ...

By Bill Kilpatrick 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 ...