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Sharbot Lake next in line for Community Improvement Plan

As a Community Improvement Plan (CIP) is about to start up in Verona, Frontenac County Council heard last week that Sharbot Lake is next in line for a bit of a boost to its economic viability. Community Improvement Plans allow for shared investments between residential and…

Pat's Kitchen opens in Hartington

Photo courtesy of Pat Patricia Ward Patricia Ward loves nothing more than cooking, and she aims to share her lifelong love with like-minded individuals in the community. Having recently retired from a long career in the high-tech world, Pat has just launched her new cooking…

Poison Hemlocks

By Lorraine Julien There are two species of highly poisonous Hemlock weeds that grow throughout Ontario: Spotted Water Hemlock (Cicuta maculata) and Poison Hemlock (Conium maculatum). Both are members of the Carrot family, as is Wild Parsnip, and all look similar to Queen Anne’s…

Sharbot Lake Lions Bottle Drive

Photo: Coleen Richter, Linda and Bill Zwier, Shelly Bertrim, Ian Whillans, Andrea Thompson and Betty-Anne Blyth Members of the Sharbot Lake and District Lions happily took empties and donations for their second annual bottle drive fundraiser at the Sharbot Lake Beer Store on…

The church is not the building – Land O’Lakes Emmanuel looks to the future

Rumours of the end of the Land O’Lakes Emmanuel United Church are greatly exaggerated. Recently all three of the churches that the congregation uses on a rotating basis, the Flinton, Harlowe and Cloyne United Churches, were put up for sale. Reverend Judith Evenden (photo left),…

LOLCS receives grant to expand services

Photo: Becky Kavanaugh and Pam Lemke of Land O'Lakes Community Services Thanks to a grant totaling $3000, which was received from the Napanee District Community Foundation (NDCF) and the Mazinaw Community Fund, the Land O'Lakes Community Services (LOLCS), located in Northbrook,…

Election fever – not quite

While the provincial election campaign proper is still a few weeks away, at least three of the provincial parties already have their campaigns underway in Lanark Frontenac Lennox and Addington. Incumbent Randy Hillier (Ontario PC Party) was in Carleton Place at a fundraising…

There's a new piper in town

Photo: Retired soldier and piper Jeff Donnelly In roughly 10 days’ time, Jeff Donnelly of Parham will become the Sharbot Lake Legion’s official piper and he will play at all the official ceremonies, both at the Legion and in and around the community. Jeff is a retired soldier…

Church bell comes down at Grace Centre

Last Friday morning, a very tall crane removed the bell tower and bell from the former Grace United Church in Sydenham, as part of the building’s transition into the Grace Centre, new home of Southern Frontenac Community Services. First, the roof and upper part of the tower were…

North Frontenac Council - Aug. 16/11

Expansion plans for Cloyne and District Museum Ian Brummel and Marg Axford, of the Cloyne and District Historical Society, came to North Frontenac Council to talk about plans for the next phase of development of the society’s museum and archives, which is located on township…