This Saturday The Bancroft Skating Club is celebrating its 50th anniversary and a special guest is coming to help celebrate: Acclaimed Olympic and championship figure skater Elvis Stojko will be performing at the Bancroft Arena.  Skating club president Chris Saylor says they’ve been working hard for months getting ready for...

We’re just a few days away from a once in many life-times event.   On Monday April 8th a total eclipse of the sun will pass through southern Ontario for the first time in 400 years and the last time in 375 years.  In Bancroft an almost total eclipse of the...

On March 30, just before 6:00 p.m., Killaloe Police responded to a report of a break and enter to a shipping container on Burnt Bridge Road in the Township of Brudenell, Lyndoch and Raglan. They say a green 2015 Honda ATV was stolen.  On March 31, members of the Killaloe...

This Friday April 5th, 2024 is the Bancroft Art Gallery’s opening reception of Joseph Muscat's  Yet, There We Are!  starting at 7:30pm. The AGB says they are thrilled to be showing such a dynamic body of work that explores the Covid-19 pandemic-era through art.   They say the evening will be surrounded by...

  The Bancroft Jets U15 Girls hockey team has made it to the Eastern Ontario Championships.  The team played some edge-of-your-seat hockey last weekend against the Leaside Wildcats in their second round-robin playoff series.   Coach Sean Ferguson said in their second game against the Wildcats, the Jets had to win by at...

This April 1st the carbon tax went into effect and people gathered to protest beside Millennium park in Bancroft.  Many driving by honked their horns while a diverse group of people shared their concerns about what they felt was the already unaffordable cost of groceries and housing.   "Across Canada...