ADDINGTON HIGHLANDS

Addington Highlands Township Council held its first ‘in-person’ meeting Tuesday since the covid-19 pandemic drove everybody online back in March. Addington Highlands is the first municipal council in The Frontenac News’ coverage area to go...

On October 1, at approximately 11pm, L&A County North OPP received a call from the residents at a Hunting Camp on Hunt Road in Northbrook. Officers from the Kaladar detachment and the Forensic Identification Unit attended from Belleville to collect...

Opening a new business venture during a global pandemic probably wouldn’t be anybody’s first choice but then again, when Wendy and Darrell Thompson started their application to open a cannabis store in Northbrook, nobody had even heard of...

Addington Highlands Council decided to form a working group consisting of two councillors and two staff members to look into the “growing problem” of people camping out at boat launches and on shoreline road allowances at its regular meeting...

Lennox & Addington (L&A) County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are investigating the theft of an All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) from Glastonbury Rd, Addington Highlands Township. The ATV was parked near a barn and was stolen sometime between the 3:00 a...

On September 2, 2020 at approximately 11:45 p.m., officers of the Lennox and Addington (L&A) County Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a report of a traffic complaint on Highway 7 near Kaladar.   Officers subsequently...

Officers of the Lennox and Addington (L&A) County Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) reminds motorists that school buses have returned to area roads. Motorists are reminded to exercise caution due to the expected increase in...

Complaints from a few residents about the future of logging and forestry in the Mazinaw-Lanark Forest didn’t sit too well with a couple of councillors at the regular (online) meeting of Addington Highlands Council on Tuesday (September 1). Both...

Members of the OPP East Region Community  Street Crime Unit (CSCU) along with the L & A County OPP detachment seized thousands of cannabis plants from two locations in Addington Highlands Township west of Flinton Aug. 12. OPP said more than 4,000...

The Land O’Lakes Food Bank received a very special donation on Friday, August 14th from Maggie and Mary Hasler. Maggie was watching TV and saw a commercial about kids that don’t have enough food so she decided to collect money for the Food Bank...

When you reach Merritta Parks age, every birthday is something to celebrate. A lifelong residents of what is now Addington Highlands (the township did not come into existence until she was over 80, Merritta moved into Pine Meadow Nursing Homewhen...

School aged children who attend public and catholic schools in Frontenac County and Addington Highlands will have the opportunity to attend school on a full time basis starting this coming September. The students are aware that the now familiar...

Lion Red Emond of the Lions Club of Land O’Lakes and current Zone Chair for 11West, representing seven Lions Clubs (Denbigh-Griffith, Tamworth, Sharbot Lake, Verona, Napanee, Odessa, Northbrook) present a $600.00 cheque on behalf of the Zone’s...

Addington Highlands put off third reading of its Zoning Bylaw amendment for the regulation of cannabis production in the Township until its September meeting after a special meeting held online before its regular meeting Tuesday. Still to be...

Last week, members of the Schwager family came to the Pioneer Museum in Cloyne to see some furniture and wooden bowls that were made by their ancestors, Johnny Bay Senior and Junior. Laura Schwager, who is a poet and teacher at a Mohawk School in...

Land O’Lakes Community Services has been in our community since 1976. They continue to provide services in our community. Following is an update of what they have been offering during the Covid-19 pandemic. Maybe you never realized it, but Pine...

It’s no secret that the forests and wetlands within the Mississippi and Lower Madawaska watersheds provide us with countless environmental and health advantages. Being in these wild areas can give us many emotional, spiritual, and physical...

The Cloyne and District Historical Society (CDHS) held a board meeting this week (July 6) and after weeks of preparations and plans that have been changing over the last month, the board felt comfortable deciding to open the museum for the summer....

Addington Highlands is in pretty good shape financially, Adam Young of Secker, Ross & Perry told Addington Highlands Council during its regular online meeting Tuesday during its annual audit review. “Cash and short-term investments are up, as is...

(NORTHBROOK, ON) - On June 27, 2020 at approximately 8:30 p.m. officers of the Lennox and Addington (L&A) County Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a report of an erratic driver. The vehicle was southbound on Highway 41...

The Class of 2020 from North Addington Education Centre in Cloyne has proved that small schools are able to graduate successful graduates in all pathways. We are very proud of our graduating students and their response during this global pandemic as...

On June 6, 2020 at approximately 7:30 p.m. officers of the Lennox and Addington (L&A) County Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were responded to a report of a possible impaired driver travelling on an all-terrain vehicle on Highway...

The vast majority of Addington Highlands Council’s online Tuesday meeting was given over to all the things that have cropped up due to the coronavirus pandemic but they did devote considerable discussion to an older issue — cannabis growing. Dep...

Corvid 19 has affected us all in one way or another. The staff at Connections Adult Learning have been adjusting to working from home, having many meetings over Zoom, and communicating with learners and one another over Google Chat.   They have...

Addington Highlands Council voted to waive the 1.25 per cent on outstanding 2020 taxes which would have come into effect June 1, 2020 at a special meeting Tuesday held online. Previously, the Township had passed similar resolutions for 2020 taxes...

United Way Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington and the Community Foundation for Kingston & Area are accepting funding applications for the Emergency Community Support Fund (ECSF). The Government of Canada’s Emergency Community Support Fund...

Addington Highlands Council continued its policy of electronic meetings Tuesday using the Zoom/YouTube format. The meeting lasted 102 minutes. First on the agenda was a proposal to provide a garbage pickup service in Flinton from new resident Jason...

A week ago the COVID-19 picture in Kingston Frontenac Lennox and Addington looked very good with the exception of one concerning case, a patient in the Providence Manor Long Term Care Home in Kingston. By the end of the week, that case was revealed...

Lennox and Addington County (L&A) Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers were called to an Addington Highlands cottage property after the owner located evidence of a trespasser in their cottage on the afternoon of April 10, 2020, at about 3:30 P.M...

Addington Highlands Council held a “Special” Meeting Tuesday afternoon. The meeting was held instead of the regular meeting scheduled for Denbigh Tuesday night and lasted about 12 minutes. First on the agenda was a motion to waive...

Lennox and Addington County (L&A) Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers responded to a 911 call to a remote cabin in the Addington Highlands on April 15, 2020 near midnight. A complainant reported being assaulted by an acquaintance. Geoffrey BLEW...

(Editors note - This article has been updated from the version published in the Frontenac News on April 9 with information from KFL&A Public Health that was released on April 8 - it is currently up to date as of 11am, April 9) In an interview with...

Addington Highlands Council moved firmly into the 21st Century Tuesday holding its first two meetings over electronic media in order to conform with social distancing guidelines amid the Covid-19 crisis. The first meeting was to approve (not pass)...

With a sudden shortage of yeast in grocery stores across Ontario coming about as the result of self-isolation and a resurgence of home baking, a store in Griffith, just north of Denbigh, found a new supplier of yeast had some for sale, so they took...

(Editors note. This item is an edited version of the item published in the Frontenac News on page 1, March 26.2019 - the original quoted Dr. Moore saying the person who tested positive was a "patient" at the Northbook clinic.  Dr. Moore did not say...

The ever-expanding spread of the COVID – 20 pandemic has claimed another victim. For 17 years the Pine Meadow Classic has been an early summer tradition at Hunter’s Creek Golf and Country Club in Cloyne, raising $15,000 - $20,000 regularly for...

This just in from Northbrook. The Lakelands Family Team clinic has been closed indefinitely due to a single positive COVID-19 test. "Despite our safety precautions we have one positive - Please take social distancing seriously. We want to reassure...

COVID-19 and how it pertains to municipal business dominated proceedings at Addington Highlands regular Council meeting Tuesday afternoon in Denbigh. “That would be fair to say, yes,” said Dep. Reeve Tony Fritsch, who chaired the meeting in the...

Addington Highlands Reeve Henry Hogg has sent a letter to Lennox & Addington County requesting $50,000, the same amount Stone Mills Township was allotted for “physician recruitment.” The letter was read out at Addington Highlands regular meeting...

Matson family patriarch Glen loves preserving history and so, for the third straight year, he opened up the farm in Arden for a Family Fun Day, with all sorts of demonstrations, wilderness skill games, and horse-drawn wagon rides. “We’ve got a...

“Physician recruitment for this area is best left with the Lakeland Family Health Team,” said Reeve Henry Hogg in a letter to Lennox & Addington County tabled at Tuesday’s regular Addington Highlands Council meeting in Denbigh. L & A County...

Connections Adult Learning is offering the free workshop Introduction to Indigenous Crafts on consecutive Tuesdays from Feb. 4 to March 10 at both its locations in Sharbot Lake and Northbrook (9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at both sites). As of this...

At its regular meeting Tuesday afternoon in Flinton, Addington Highlands Council passed a resolution to respond to Lennox & Addington County’s request regarding the upper tier’s involvement in physician recruitment in time for the County’s...

Presumably, having the Duke of Sussex speak at one of their meetings after he moves his family to Canada was just Carolyn McCulloch joking around, but don’t put it past the Cloyne and District Historical Society. “We’ll tell him to bring...

Addington Highlands Council reserved approval for fee waivers and grant requests until the budget is discussed later in the year at its regular meeting Tuesday in Flinton. And that’s likely to be the procedure for all such requests in the future....

There wasn’t a whole lot going on at Addington Highlands final Council meeting of the year in Denbigh Tuesday afternoon, according at the Reeve Henry Hogg. “We did meet in closed session as we have a union contract coming up but I can’t talk...

It was a fairly light agenda for Addington Highlands Council at its regular meeting Tuesday afternoon in Flinton, said Reeve Henry Hogg. “We spent most of our time in closed session because we have a union contract with roads employees coming up...

Established in 1983, the Cloyne Pioneer Museum is seeking a new Curator. The Museum is operated by the not-for-profit Cloyne and District Historical Society. The Society's catchment area is the Highway 41 corridor from Kaladar in the south to...

Each year the Addington Highlands Council and the Addington Highlands Economic Advisors for Development call for nominations of a deserving person to receive a Community Builder Award in a number of categories This year’s recipients received their...

Back in the day, John Fradenburgh was part of the Toronto music scene. These days, he runs a coffee house/music store in Northbrook. The musician in him remains strong as does his desire to play with other musicians. That’s probably why he invites...