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In January, the township applied to the province for financial assistance to help with clearing roads after an ice storm hit the township on Boxing Day. Also in January, Stephen Seller and Warren Sleeth from the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and...
by Victoria Peeling and Jeff Green Three years after starting to work on the Addington Frontenac Area Radio (AFAR) project, the AFAR committee is starting over again, but this time they are looking at the possibility of satellite radio. Recently,...
Susan Andrew Allen speaks at the fair. Photo Christi Laundrie.. The Seniors’ Advisory Committee organized a Land O’Lakes Committee Services Resources Fair at the Denbigh Hall on Monday, April 12. Yours truly was impressed with the wealth of...
Back: Terry Murphy, Charles James, Daryn Bolland, Drew Parks; Middle: Val Allan, Peter Rasenberg, Jennifer Thurston, Tia Cornish, Katie Ohlke; Front: Ryan Raymo, Brady Douglas, Chris Jordan, Mandy Pringle and Victoria Peeling On March 31, two...
Public Health to continue septic approvals Kingston Frontenac Lennox and Addington (KFL&A) Public Health will continue to provide septic approval services for building departments in Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Counties. Senior staff at...
King Max Bumstead and Queen Brianna TryonT On Tuesday March 9, Mr. Rewbotham's Grade 4/5 class spent their morning preparing for a medieval feast. They held their feast that afternoon with help from the Elementary French teacher, Mme. Bumstead, and...
Three reports on the Landfill Monitoring programs at the Mackavoy, Kaladar and Vennachar Waste Disposal sites, including the costs, were deferred to budget time. The Flinton Recreation Club raised over $900 at their recent fishing derby, which will...
Werner and Martha Lips in 2008 when Werner received the Addington Highlands Community Builder Award. Werner and Martha Lips were living in Montreal some 40 years ago, when they received information from the Apostolic Church of Canada that the...
NAEC Elementary Girls’ Basketball Team On Friday, March 5, the elementary girls’ basketball team traveled to Napanee District Secondary School to compete in a basketball tournament. The Vikings dominated in their first two games against...
Province says no to emergency funding request - Addington Highlands Reeve Henry Hogg said it came as no surprise when the township’s request for provincial funding to cover some of the costs of clearing trees from roads after the Boxing Day ice...
Thanks to an Ontario Trillium Foundation grant, LOLCS, along with other community partners, is developing a Child and Youth Transportation program. The goal of the program is: “To improve the quality of life and provide community inclusion for...
Mikayla MacDonald, 11, finished 5th at the Marmora dog sled races last weekend. Photo Kelly Macdonald 11 year old Mikayla MacDonald took part in the 4 mile sled dog races which took place on the weekend of Feb 6 and 7 in Marmora. Mikayla and her 4...
Back Row: Domynick McKenzie, Darian Flieler, Jordon Freeburn Front Row: 3rd Place, Brandon Lloyd (Hunting safety) , 2nd Place: Courtney Johnson (History of Barbie) , 1st place: Emma Benn (Allergies) Photo: Darlene Dacuk North Addington Education...
Terry Murphy from Quinte Conservation updated council on various ongoing conservation programs, namely the watershed report cards that will be made for every water course in the Quinte watersheds, and which will be monitored year to year. Reeve...
l-r; Bulls defenceman Bjorn Krupp, Sgt. Rob Ross, Andrew Freeburn, Doug Weese, Constables John Dyks and Jason Brown, Bulls forward Jan Kaminsky, and Sgt. Dick Welton The Flinton Community Policing Committee held their sixth annual community fun day...
Addington Highlands seeks provincial relief for ice storm At Monday night’s council meeting, Stephen Seller and Warren Sleeth from the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing (OMMAH) discussed the possibility of the township applying to the...
The Township of Addington Highlands and the Flinton Recreation Club have worked out an agreement that will lead to the construction of a coverall roof over the Flinton outdoor ice rink. The $372,000 project received funding support for 2/3 of the...
The Land o' Lakes Tourist Association (LOLTA) is concerned about a potential $20,000 shortfall in their budget after 2011, based on a work plan from the Lennox and Addington Economic Development department As part of a three-year work plan, the...
It has been a tradition at the News at the start of a municipal election year to ask the mayors and reeve of the four townships that we cover regularly in our pages what their intentions are. They may be gluttons for punishment, but none were...
The Physical Education classes at North Addington Education Centre were on wheels last week. Mrs. Sarah Sproule, a secondary physical education teacher, arranged for the unique opportunity by organizing the rental of 10 wheelchairs for classes to...
DENBIGH WNID FARM PLANS ON HOLD Council received a short note from Stephen Cookson of Renewable Energy Systems Canada, a company that has been looking at a property on Crown land 2kms. north of Big Yirkie Lake in the Denbigh area, with a view...
Lake planning coming to Addington Highlands Rosemary Teed, representing the Skootamatta, Sheldrake and Pringle Lake Management Plan steering committee, made a presentation to Addington Highlands Council on Monday October 5. Other members of the...
Ursula Nussberger appeared before council to ask the township to “share the cost” of an application she and her husband Fritz had made last year to amend the township’s Official Plan and Comprehensive Zoning Bylaw to allow multiple residential...
It’s not likely that all meetings of Addington Highlands Council in 2009 will be over in less than half an hour, but the first one of the year clocked in at only 20 minutes. The meeting took place on the first real working day of the year and the...
