File contains newspaper clippings concerning the creation of a county-wide Board of Education and changes to the board composition. Also contains clippings on projected changes to education in Ontario.
File contains the obituary of Joseph Andrew Lessard (b. 1864 d. 1968) Flinton's oldest resident; and the obituary of Howard Emerson Thompson (d. 1968) of Thomasburg, Ontario.
File contains a newspaper clipping printed in 1968, retelling ghost sightings reported in Belleville in the 1890s. There is also a copy of a newspaper clipping from 1880 about the launching of a catamaran (also called a double hulled yacht) that Tisdale built for Mr. J.J. B. Flint.
File contains two copies of a 1961 booklet about the opening of the new County of Hastings Administration Building, and a 1968 newspaper article about the Administration staff.
File contains a newspaper clipping about an auction held in Stirling to auction 29 schools from the Huntingdon, Hungerford, and Rawdon area - $72,000 was raised for the school board.
File contains several newspaper clippings proposed integration of school boards in Hastings County 1968, the opening of school board meetings to the press, and the installation of W. Thomas Simpson as Chair, Bay of Quinte District High School Board, 1962.
File contains newspaper clippings concerning the closure of one and two-room schools and the consolidation of schools in Central Hastings, and the implementation of changes to kindergarten enrolment in County School Area 2 (Central Hastings).
File contains a newspaper article about a report by Lloyd Dennis on the role of schools and education “to headlight society, not reflect it” and an article about the plan for the School Board moving forward.