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Northern Students Recieve Limestone Board Citations

Jared Salmond, a student at North Addington Education Centre, is the strong, silent type of leader that often flies under the radar, but his contributions to North Addington are significant. He has resurrected the elementary intramural program, where students in Grades 5 to 8…

South Frontenac Council - May 21/13

“It’s Highway Robbery” Mayor Davison didn’t disguise his frustration when Council reviewed a letter from the Municipal Policing Bureau which was sent earlier this month to all mayors and reeves of Ontario’s OPP policed municipalities. The letter reminds municipalities of the…

Sharbot Lake Farmers Market Grows Exponentially

It was a busy day on May 18 at Oso Beach in Sharbot Lake where organizers of the Sharbot Lake Farmers Market set up shop for the upcoming growing season. The market has grown exponentially since its inception just three years ago and the number of vendors has increased from a…

Forty-Two Homeless People In Frontenac County?

“It would be nice, at some point, to do an in-time survey of homeless people in Frontenac County,” said John Whitesell of OrgCode consulting, which has just completed a homelessness reduction plan for Kingston and Frontenac County, “but for now we have to be satisfied with a…

Letters: May 23/13

Re: Scott Reid asks, "What do YOU think?" It appears from the above question that Mr. Reid believes that his constituents can think. He then goes on to ask for a response to the following questions: Yes! Dangerous offenders should stay locked up. No! Dangerous offenders should…

McCONNELL, ALICE

Suddenly at home on Friday May 17, 2013 in her 79th year. Beloved wife of the late Jack McConnell. Sadly missed by her children, Stan, grandchildren, great grandchildren and her sister. Alice saw her customers over the years as her family as well. Resting at Goodfellow’s Funeral…

Letters: May 16/13

Ambulance Cuts When I first heard that they were cutting an ambulance and paramedics in Kingston, I was amazed that given the increases in calls from an aging population they would cut frontline services. What I didn't realize was how, here in Central Frontenac, it would affect…

Paramedics Take To The Streets To Protest

Members of OPSEU local 462 braved some windy, cool weather on Saturday morning, gathering on the busy corner of Princess Street and Gardiners Road for an information picket about an ambulance service cut that is slated to take effect in the City of Kingston on May 20. A 12-hour…

River Of Life Celebrates First Anniversary

"If I had two wooden legs they'd be knocking together up here," was how Bonnie Ray described her nervousness in giving her testimony at the River of Life Christian Fellowship's first anniversary. Since Bonnie had been introduced by the church's pastor, Rev. Raymond Klatt, as…

Sasi Taxi Puts Wheels On Wheels

Debbie Barkley knows a thing or two about transportation services and it is her decades-long experience in the business that has prepared her for her latest business venture. For 30 years Barkley worked in the taxi business and then she worked for Frontenac Transportation…