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Good Reasons To Buy Local This Season

In an effort to get the word out about the benefits of supporting the local food economy as well as to lay to rest many common myths about local food's costs to consumers, members of the Sharbot Lake Farmers Market enlisted one very passionate local food advocate, educator and…

Central Frontenac Council - May 16/13

Local taxes up by to 5.7% Local taxes up would be up 9% as Central Frontenac Council passes budget, however a cut in county tax reduces increase to 5.7% Collectively, Central Frontenac ratepayers will pay $6.15 million for local services in 2013, up from $5.6 million in 2012, an…

NDP Names Provincial Candidate For LFL&A

Dave Parkhill says that in his first run for provincial office under the NDP banner he was basically “like a lamb to the slaughter” but this time will be different. “This time I feel I will be more like a soldier falling on my sword,” he said earlier this week after taking on…

South Frontenac Council - May 14/13

Dog Agility Trials Request Council discussed a request from Jennifer Laird, asking permission to hold a series of dog agility trials in June, September and October, on the Bill Day property just east of Harrowsmith. The general consensus was that this particular use should…

Sharbot Lake Seniors’ Home To Close

Twenty-seven years ago, Dr. Peter Bell opened the Sharbot Lake Seniors Home in order to provide a residential setting for local seniors who required the level of support that only a seniors’ residence could provide. “There were people then, as there are now, who reach a point in…

SLHS Coffee House Ties In With Change The World

The spring Coffee House held last week at Sharbot Lake High School was co-sponsored by the Youth program of Northern Frontenac Community Services (NFCS). It was also included in a province-wide initiative called Change the World. The Kingston Frontenac Lennox and Addington…

Award-Winning Author Lawrence Hill At Wintergreen Studios

On April 27 a small but capacity crowd filled the main hall at Wintergreen Studios, first dining and then listening to a reading by award-winning Canadian author Lawrence Hill. The reading wrapped up a three-day writers' workshop Hill led at Wintergreen from April 24-27. Hill is…

Paramedic Protest Exposes Fault Lines In Amalgamation

After being rebuffed at Frontenac County Council, the Kingston-based OPSEU local that represents the paramedics in Kingston and Frontenac County are now trying a kind of end-run. They are trying to influence Kingston politicians concerning the delivery of land ambulance service…

Buffleheads

by Steve Blight Every year as soon as the ice is off our pond, I get another opportunity to become reacquainted with North America’s smallest duck, the Bufflehead. With the advent of warmer weather and open water, a couple of males and a small number of females show up every…

BLACK, Elwood

(1941 - 2013) Elwood passed away suddenly, but peacefully, with his family by his side at the Toronto Western Hospital on Monday, April 29, 2013 in his 72nd year. Beloved husband of 49 wonderful years to Eleanor (nee Burke) of Oshawa. Dear father of Jana Lee (Vic) Araujo of…