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Judging by the numbers at the kick off breakfast on March 29, this year's North and Central Frontenac Relay for Life will be the best one yet. Over 150 breakfasts were served up by the relay committee. The event raised donations for the local food bank and included musical…
Not only did Sharbot Lake teen, Madeleine R. Field-Green live up to the challenge of directing a play at the Sears Ontario Drama Festival; she had her own original script produced. Last week, high schools from around the region took part in the annual Sears Ontario Drama…
Demolition crews have begun to pull down the 60 year old Sharbot Lake High School building. The process began two weeks ago, and this week the demolition crews are working in earnest, removing the walls where the former wood and auto-shops were located. A letter to parents from…
On March 28, musician, drummer and percussionist Leo Brooks brought his talents and musical know-how to students at the Granite Ridge Education Centre. Brooks’ presentation was part of the Blue Skies in the Community music program, which strives to bring musical education into…
Re: Marriage & Charter In regards to Ian Whillans’ March 13 letter to the editor (Letters, Frontenac News, Mar 13/14) on Jule Koch's perspective on marriage (Letters, Frontenac News, Mar 6/14), you referred to her view as being a rant; I beg to differ. Your pathetic reference to…
The draft Frontenac County Strategic Plan, which is being promoted to local councils this month, focuses on three unfortunately named Wildly Important Goals (WIG). As someone who has attended too many municipal meetings in Frontenac County, “wild” is not a word that should be…
Samantha Snider is a take charge kind of girl. When the nine-year-old grade 4 student at Harrowsmith Public School learned that not only had two Harrowsmith students lost their house but also their pets, it saddened her. Not willing to remain in that state for long, Samantha…
Lloyd Helferty is an engineering technologist and the president and co-founder of Biochar Ontario. On March 22 he gave a talk titled “The Landscape of Biochar in Canada: Exciting Opportunities in Biocarbon” to a group of Green Party supporters at their annual fundraising dinner,…
It was an event that Anne Prichard of the Frontenac Community Futures Development Corporation (CFDC) called “over-subscribed” at Trinity United Church in Verona. Representatives from all three levels of government outlined in broad terms a number of granting programs that are…
Growers like nothing more than exploring new gardening options for the (hopefully!) upcoming spring. That was the case at Oso Hall on March 22 where organizers of the Sharbot Lake Farmers Market included a number of heritage seed vendors in their usual line-up of regular market…
