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By Steve Blight The American Goldfinch is probably our best-known member of the finch family. Found in our area in all seasons, its “per-chick-o-ree” flight song and undulating flight pattern are good ways to identify this diminutive seed-eating bird. Known by some as wild…
Photo: Crews continue work on the excavation site for the new school in Sharbot Lake, filling and compacting the lowest spots, where the water vein was revealed last week. For years, the Gable family, Greg, Barb, and their daughter Katie, have lived within metres of the Sharbot…
Photo: Jamie Brash, SF Roads Area Superintendent of Solid Waste and Facilities, beside prototype of rack to hold recycling bins at the end of private lanes. Local residents and members of council turned up at the Keeley Road Public Works site on Sept. 29 to see South Frontenac’s…
Photo: Laura Schwager, great-great-granddaughter of Johnny Bay After much research into her family tree, and in particular her Mohawk ancestry, Laura Schwager presented her findings in a presentation she gave at Barrie Hall in Cloyne on Sept.17 as a special guest of the Cloyne &…
Photo: L-r, Matt Rennie, Stacey O'Connor, Stephanie Laurin, Mickayla Green-Meadus, Kelly Green Meadus and Karl Hammer A dance on September 28 at Sydenham High School marked the final chapter of a four-year fundraising campaign for the Mike and Andy Fund. The Sydenham Tackles…
Photo: Adele Colby (3rd from left) with band members and other members of the Grandmothers-by-the-Lake group Best known for their butter tart and spring plant sales, members of Grandmothers-by-the-Lake, the local chapter of the Stephen Lewis Foundation's Grandmothers to…
2100 litres of fuel stolen from AH works yard “This was not just someone taking a few jerry cans with fuel,” Addington Highlands Roads Superintendent Royce Rosenblath told members of the township's council at their meeting on Monday, Oct. 1. “It was an organized theft.” The…
Editorial by Jeff Green I don’t usually comment on national news stories, but something caught my attention this week. The story about e-coli in beef produced at a single plant in Alberta did not seem to be of local interest at first. Then it came out that the XL plant in…
Posthumus Award Linda Young accepted a Fire Services Long Service medal awarded to her late husband, Brian Young. Presenting the honour, Fire Chief Chesbrough spoke warmly of Young’s 25 years of dedication to the fire service and to his community. Mayor Davison recalled that…
The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources is ending the Ontario Stewardship Program. The program has provided administrative and staffing support to 46 stewardship councils in all rural counties in Southern Ontario for the past 16 years. In a letter to stewardship council chairs…
