By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Bancroft and Area Studio Tour was back for its 33rd year this past weekend. It continues next weekend, Sept. 28 and 29 from 10 a.m. to 5 ...

By Chris Houston On Sept. 19, Maggie’s Resource Centre of North Hastings hosted the annual Take Back the Night event in Bancroft’s Millennium Park. The evening event was organized to empower and ...

By Nate Smelle On Sept. 13 and 14, more than 350 volunteers, representing 179 community-based snowmobile clubs from throughout Ontario gathered in Muskoka for the Ontario Federation of Snowmobile ...

By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Transparency, the hallmark of our democracy, and the accountability and public trust it brings with it, is in peril in South Algonquin ...

It was around 10 years ago when a former acquaintance asked me if I would be willing to look after her friend’s cat Onyx for a few months while she was in rehab. At the time I was just starting to ...

By Chris Houston On Sept. 10, Wollaston council paid tribute to three staff, who retired after clocking up 91 years of services in the municipality’s public works department. Superintendent Kirk ...

By Chris Houston August 17 saw a weekend market return to Maynooth. The town had hosted a farmers market for over 20 years until 2022. After a gap year in 2023, the market has returned. Organizers ...

By Nate Smelle On Sunday, Sept. 15 runners gathered at the Bancroft Ridge Golf Club for the 44th annual Terry Fox Run. There were some 70 participants in the 2024 Bancroft Terry Fox Run; all of ...

By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Watersheds Canada, in association with several local lake associations, deployed brush bundles on several lakes during what they called “fish ...

Author Linda Hutsell-Manning returned to the Madawaska Community Centre on Sept. 4 at 6:30 p.m. to read from her novella Heads I Win, Tails You Lose, and her short story The Killing Room. She was ...