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Editorial by Jeff Green Let’s see. You have a chance to go lake trout fishing, and maybe fish for arctic grayling as well, at a remote, fly-in location on Great Slave Lake in the middle of the Arctic summer, or you can go to a Frontenac County Council meeting. I wonder what I…
by Ankaret Dean, Lanark County Master Gardeners This spring and summer the rainfall has been very low again: passing showers seem to miss us and no long three day rains. However there are quite a few ways that we can help to preserve moisture in the soil even if the rains keeps…
By Lorraine Julien The Eastern Red-backed Salamander (Plethodon cinereus) is a fairly common salamander that lives in and around forested areas throughout most of eastern North America. In fact, North America has more kinds of salamanders (the group that includes newts) than all…
Photo: County Community Planner Peter Young at the Sharbot Lake CIP Draft public meeting In the third public meeting regarding the Community Improvement Plan (CIP) for Sharbot Lake, which was held on July 12 at Oso Hall, Central Frontenac CAO/clerk Shawn Trépanier presented a…
Photo: Korean monk Daeung Sunim in Sharbot Lake with his bicycle, which he will ride for 2 years on his 30,000km trip across the two American continents. Daeung Sunim, a 42-year-old Korean monk who is on a bicycle trip circumnavigating North America and then continuing on to the…
Photo: Orrie, Andrea and Charlie Cumpson with Hailey Conium and their organic dairy herd at Sonset Farm in Inverary On July 15, members of the 4H and Rotary clubs of Frontenac joined forces with the owners of three rural farms in South Frontenac to promote urban awareness of…
Photo: The Camp Fire Boys of Kemptville, Jon and Jeff, delighted listeners at McMullen Park in Verona on July 15 There is no better way to relax on a summer Sunday than by kicking back in a lawn chair with a view of the lake nearby and enjoying the sounds of live music. So says…
Ompah fire hall/ambulance project officially dead The joint North Frontenac/Frontenac County building project, which was to bring an ambulance post and a new fire hall to Ompah, has been formally rejected by North Frontenac Council. The project was not formally on the agenda at…
Members of the Pine Meadow Management Team and the Pine Meadow Redevelopment Committee have spent the better part of 10 years pleading and coaxing government officials for approvals and funding to refurbish the long-term care home and bring up to the provincial standards.…
There was no confirming vote at the end of a two-hour meeting between the councils of Addington Highlands and North Frontenac in Cloyne this week, but the meeting did yield a broad consensus about the future of fire and emergency services in both townships. As much as anything,…
