New: Facebook has blocked all Canadian news. Join our mailing list to stay in the loop.
Showing 10,521–10,530 of 16,055 published articles.
On Second Thought... Council voted 8-1 to temporarily suspend procedural rules, in order to bring back last month’s issue of the snow plowing contract for reconsideration. At that time, after a heated debate they had rejected the low bid, submitted by Mulroney Trucking, because…
Family in Canada found You may remember an email I sent you on 25 Jan, 2012 with regards to my search for my father, Harold Vankoughnett’s family. Within a very short time I had emails from a number of direct family members giving me lots of information about my Canadian side.…
The Grand Parade of the Silver Lake Pow Wow is not an entirely solemn event, but it carries the weight of ceremony. The dancers enter the ring in a prescribed order, the flag bearers hop from one foot to the other to the beat of the drum, which performs a slow song that befits…
On Sat. Aug. 17, the 640 Royal Canadian Army Cadet Corps held a pre-registration/information session at the Northbrook Foodland parking lot. The army cadet program in Addington Highlands and North Frontenac was established in 1998. It was successful from the start and after a…
No, it’s not the name of a tool or the revival of a heavy metal band. It’s the name of a gruelling 1200 km bicycle ride that follows the same basic rules as the Paris-Brest-Paris (PBP) Randonee, one of the oldest bicycle races in the world, which dates back to 1891. The PBP is…
The Conservationists of Frontenac Addington (COFA) renewed one of their time-honoured traditions at Deer Rock Lake last week. Five children between the ages of 9 and 12, who might otherwise not have an opportunity to fish, were taken out by COFA members and Conservation Officers…
The septic system for the Granite Ridge Education Centre, currently under construction in Sharbot Lake, has been the subject of consultation between the Limestone District School Board and the Ontario Ministry of the Environment for a year. Because the school is located within…
Lanark Frontenac Lennox and Addington MPP Randy Hillier has taken on one particularly unpopular opponent this summer, Hydro One. On August 1, Hillier wrote a letter to the Ontario Ombudsman Andre Marin, in which he asked Marin to investigate Hydro One billing practices. Among…
Arlene Seale lives in a picturesque house on a tiny peninsula on Loughborough Lake. She is presently engaged in a dispute with South Frontenac Township that is going to the Ontario Municipal Board, and one thing that all the combatants in the dispute would agree on is that the…
Tar & Chip – was that quality for our money? If you had to drive on some portions of North Frontenac’s newly resurfaced Ardoch Road from Ardoch to the Austris Road you will agree whoever was responsible for the tar & chip job should be tarred and feathered. We followed the…
