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Harrowsmith Residents Meet With Canada Post

A raucous, angry crowd greeted Glen Baldock, a manager at Canada Post who is responsible for the postal outlets in Frontenac County, when he came to a public meeting at St. Paul’s Church in Harrowsmith last Wednesday, September 26. The list of the complaints that Baldock had to…

Hope

Back to HomeFeature Article - October 4, 2012 HOPE - Group offers support, advice for parents dealing with acting-out youthby Laura Moloughney Helping Other Parents Everywhere (HOPE) is a non-profit organization that offers support to parents dealing with acting-out youth. Laura…

South Frontenac Council - Sept. 25

Bedford Roads Qasem Mahmud, Manager of Long Bay Camp in Bedford, came before Council with a petition from local cottagers asking that the narrow sections of Burridge and Richie side roads be widened, to make them safer. Neither Council nor Public Works manager were…

Two times the family fun in Sharbot Lake

Photo: athan and Reed Whalen of Odessa and Riley Lyons of Yarker (centre) checked out an ambulance Northern Frontenac Community Services and Community Living North Frontenac joined forces and attracted a big crowd at their “Roaring Reptiles and Mighty Machines” Day at St. James…

North Frontenac Council - Sep. 24/12

Ompah Library Marily Seitz presented an update on the Ompah Community Library. She said the library, which sprung up as a community venture when the Kingston Frontenac Public Library closed the Ompah branch in the spring of 2011, “is alive and thriving and has become a vital…

Legion awards presentation in Arden

Photo: Ralph and Vera Steele with Zone Commander Dan Bush and Legion President David Moore at the Arden Legion Branch 334's awards ceremony on September 22 In a special awards ceremony, numerous members of the Arden Legion Branch 334 were honoured and presented with pins and…

Young country crooner crowned champion at the FOTMC

Photo: 3-year-old Augusta Campoli of Richmond Hill competed against June Nixon, Marjorie Smith and Roy Bradshaw and won overall singing champion at the Frontenac Old Time Music Championships at the Bedford hall on September 22 Sometimes changing horses in the middle of the…

Filling up local food banks

Photo: Marlene Wheeler of Sharbot Lake and OPP Aux. Const. Mike Scott “stuff the cruiser” in Sharbot Lake Members of the OPP stuffed their cruisers at three separate locations in South and Central Frontenac in support of local area food banks. In Sharbot Lake, Auxiliary…

One set of rules? – Not so for LDSB

Editorial by Jeff Green Ever since the Limestone District School Board announced they were planning to build their new school in the parking lot of the current Sharbot Lake High School, I’ve had a nagging question. Does the proximity of the school site to the west basin of…

Frontenac County Council - Sept. 12

by Jeff Green Frontenac County to contest electoral boundary proposals In response to a report from Chief Administrative Officer Elizabeth Savill, Frontenac County Council has decided to seek standing at a public meeting dealing with proposed electoral boundaries that will take…