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Frontenac Heritage Festival gets fresh marketing

Thanks to a grant from the St. Lawrence College Employment Centre, the Frontenac Heritage Festival will employ a new marketing strategy this year and into the future. Jesse Mills, a graduate of Sharbot Lake High School who has studied film in Toronto, has been engaged to help…

Art Club and LOLPS

Last week students at Land O'Lakes Public School in Mountain Grove with a passion for art started up the second year of an extra-curricular art program at the school. The popular program, which first ran in 2011, is back this year thanks to a $800 grant from the Limestone…

Evalyn Perry at MERA

Singer/songwriter and spoken word artist Evalyn Parry is no stranger to the MERA school house. In 2011 she performed there at a sold-out engagement in the Girls With Glasses trio. Last Sunday, January 26 it was all Evalyn in a solo performance that sparked off the winter segment…

Central Frontenac Council targets a 5% tax increase

Budget meeting and othere items from Council Central Frontenac Council made short work of their line-by-line consideration of the 2014 township budget on Monday afternoon. They had met twice the previous week to hear management-level staff go over their respective budgets, but…

Frontenac County draft budget - 3.8% increase

Treasurer identifies potential cuts to cover the increase In the preamble to the draft 2014 Frontenac County budget, Treasurer Marian VanBruinessen referred to a directive that Council passed in December. The directive asked her to present two alternative budget scenarios, one…

Land Claim: Mr. Hogg goes to Toronto

Addington Highlands Reeve Henry Hogg, accompanied by Clerk/Treasurer Jack Pauhl, travelled to Queen's Park earlier this month to meet with Ontario Minister of Aboriginal Affairs David Zimmer. In a half-hour meeting with Minister Zimmer and two members of his staff, including…

Centre Stage concerts to return

The Center Stage Café will be back in action with live music at the Sharbot Lake Legion on the 3rd Thursday of the month for February, March and April. The house band (Feral Five), as well as playing its own eclectic repertoire, will host a number of local guest performers over…

Northbrook Firehall build confirmed

Addington Highlands Council has accepted the bid from Task Force Engineering of Belleville for the construction of a four-bay fire hall on a township-owned lot on Hwy. 41, about two kilometres south of Northbrook. Reeve Henry Hogg said that construction is set to start in the…

Property Owners Association invites input

The Sharbot Lake Property Owners’ Association have revised the website to make it even more accessible and it is still at www.slpoa.ca. We invite all residents, whether members of the association or not, to take a look. Tell us what you think about the site and please join the…

Rural home delivery not on Canada Post chopping block

Canada Post spokesman John Caines said last week that home delivery is not on the chopping block in rural Canada. Although the embattled company will begin phasing out home delivery next month in urban and suburban areas, Caines said that a process of re-evaluating rural…