Bancroft This Week

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Bancroft This Week
TypeWeekly newspaper
Format Tabloid
Owner(s) Postmedia
EditorNate Smelle
Founded2000
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters254 Hastings Street N. BANCROFT ON
Website www.bancroftthisweek.com

Bancroft This Week is a White Pine Media publication that first appeared in 2000 as Bancroft This Weekend, and was an independent weekly newspaper.

In its current incarnation, in tabloid-format, it circulates to more than 10,000 homes, as a flyer wrap, in a wide geographic range that spans across much of North Hastings (Hastings County) and its outskirts including Hastings Highlands (Maynooth), Madawaska Valley (Barry's Bay), Bancroft, Wollaston (Coe Hill) and Highlands East (Cardiff & Wilberforce). The publication lands in most mailboxes every Friday.

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