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Editorial by Jeff Green When the Occupy movement, as it has come to be known, sprung up in New York as a kind of North American response to the Arab Spring last summer, I, for one, looked at it as an urban phenomenon. Even the slogan about the 1% who have so much and the 99% who…
by Dale Odorizzi, Lanark County Master Gardeners As the old year ends and the new year begins, many of us make resolutions as to how we can improve our lives and our health. This is also a good time to make resolutions about how we can improve our gardens. I have included some…
Photo: Mel Good holds part of the mail plane’s propeller that crashed into Long Lake in 1930 Fragments of history can often be found by accident. That was the case recently for Hope Stinchcombe of Parham, owner of Hope’s Place, the historic general store in Parham (formerly the…
Photo: New director Cindy McCall leads the Blue Skies Orchestras at their annual New Year’s concert at Maberly Hall. If the January 8 concert at the Maberly hall was any indication, the Blue Skies in the Community's annual New Year’s fiddling extravaganza may have to seek a…
Photo: Meals on Wheels cook Pat Rhyno (right) with volunteer driver Erlene Lee at the Sharbot Lake Seniors Centre pack up meals to be delivered to clients When the Sharbot Lake Seniors Centre opened in January 2009, the long-term vision of the Northern Frontenac Community…
Photo: Skills Link Blossoms program participants show pride in their work. Participants included Katie Hoadley, Jessica Patterson, Sonni Teal, John Sweet, Brittany Knapp, Tiffany Ducharme, Josh St. Pierre, and Nick Tanner under the tutelage of Bill Young and program coordinator…
Photo: Jeannine Albert of Plevna in the new retrofitted NFCS van, which can now offer subsidized wheelchair accessible transportation to clients in central and north Frontenac. Courtesy of Catherine Tysick For those in need of wheelchair-accessible transportation, Northern…
DH Nevins, a.k.a. Danielle Harding, teaches at Sharbot Lake Public School and is married to Barry Harding of Land O'Lakes Public School. She is also the writer of the post-apocalyptic thriller “Wormwood”. Although the book was released in September, I did not get to read until…
Council Grinds Away at 2012 Budget Central Frontenac Council has worked through the public works, fire department and township facilities part of their 2012 budget at meetings last Wednesday (January 11) and this past Tuesday (January 18). With over $1 million in tax increases…
Didn’t Move to the Country to Live Beside Cows... Richard Thompson, resident of Inverary, in Storrington district, came as a delegate to protest that his neighbour, who lives on a 3.27 acre lot which is zoned residential, has eight cows. Township planner, Lindsay Mills, read…
