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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…
While the construction site in the former parking lot of Sharbot Lake High School still looks more like a construction site than an almost completed building, school board officials remain confident that construction will be completed in just over month and that the school will…
The over 300 anglers who participated in the Land O'Lakes Tourist Association's premiere large and smallmouth bass fishing tournament on August 17 came together at Oso beach in Sharbot Lake following what proved to be a great day for fishers of all ages. Participants came from…
Everyone knows the stresses that are being felt by small rural communities in the current climate of dwindling opportunities and an ageing population. Numbers of local institutions and churches have been diminished or have disappeared altogether over the past two decades, but…
