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North Frontenac Council completed a long budget process last Friday, leaving ratepayers on the hook for a 7% increase in the amount the township will be levying to ratepayers to pay for local services. The budget took several months to finalise in 2013 because North Frontenac…
In recognition of National Volunteer Week (April 21-27), staff at Southern Frontenac Community Services (SFCS) in Sydenham held a special celebration at the Grace Centre to thank their 143 volunteers, who assist staff in bringing a myriad of health, social and financial support…
Solid Waste Annual Report Guy Laporte of AECON presented a brief review of the monitoring of the township’s waste disposal sites. He reported on 10 sites. Five of them are closed, but the Ministry of the Environment still requires ongoing monitoring of surface and ground water…
Even though a climate of acrimony and mistrust has become entrenched at Frontenac County Council in recent months, the decision that council made last week to defer their budget deliberations until May 2 is hard to understand. The budget was on the agenda last week, but before…
Conservative Ad welcomes Mr. Trudeau I think the ad that is running welcoming Mr. Trudeau is an outrage. Last week, Mr. Harper was saying that we need to put an end to bullying. He might want to stop engaging in insulting, irrelevant and bullying behaviour himself. Shame on Mr.…
The information in this column was provided by Community Legal Education Ontario in its monthly email alert “On the Radar” Many of us look forward to the long weekend in May as the "unofficial" beginning of the summer. In anticipation of Victoria Day on May 20 and the other…
It is probably safe to say that telephone fraud was not what Alexander Graham Bell had in mind when he pioneered the telephone in the 1870s. Unfortunately, modern-day telephone scammers defraud consumers out of millions of dollars annually. We hope that this article will help…
1933 - 2013 of Hidden Acres Retirement Residence in Harlowe passed away at the L&A County General Hospital in Napanee on Friday, April 19, 2013 in his 80th year. Pre-deceased by his partner Pauline Andrew and his first wife Lois Lucas. Dear father of Marlene (Dave) Dacuk of…
1926 - 2013 (W.W.II Veteran) Passed away peacefully in Perth on Sunday April 21, 2013. Beloved husband, for 63 years to Kathleen (Kay). Loving and respected father of Bill (Suzzann), Dianne Lake (Alvin), Brian (Laurie). He will be sadly missed by his grandchildren Shantih, Katy…
More Don Quixote than Crusader: (Re: John McEwen: Basement Crusader, March 14, 2013) South Frontenac’s Chief Building Official Brian Gass’s comment that "in accordance with 9.13.2 a Building Official is to look in the excavation for evidence of a high water table or hydrostatic…
