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County residents asked for input on Municipal Housing Strategy

The County of Frontenac wishes to invite community members to our second phase public consultations on the Municipal Housing Strategy currently under joint development by the City of Kingston and the County of Frontenac. The Municipal Housing Strategy is being developed in three…

SFCS Seeking caregivers for licensed childcare program

The Licensed Home Childcare program at Southern Frontenac Community Services (SFCS) provides appropriate childcare in a home environment. The program, which is supervised by Melissa Elliott, is looking for families that are interested in opening up their home for local children…

Women’s Counselling Services in Verona

Though often a topic that we prefer not to discuss, the truth is that many rural women are currently living with domestic violence. In an effort to serve and support them, a partnership has been set up between the Women’s Program at the Kingston Community Counseling Centres…

North Frontenac Council - Oct. 28/10

Saga of Ompah fire station/ambulance base continues At their meeting last week, on October 28, North Frontenac Council again addressed the Ompah Fire Hall/ambulance base issue, which has been the subject of a back and forth debate with Frontenac County in recent weeks. Mayor…

Addington Highlands Council - Nov 1/10

Denbigh School purchase “imminent” One of the hurdles to establishing a satellite medical clinic in Denbigh is about to be removed. The Limestone District School Board sent a letter to Addington Highlands Township last week formally offering to sell the Denbigh School to the…

An utterly friendless speck

It took a special breed to withstand the rigours of the pioneer lumbering days in the Cloyne area and set up a household and raise a family. In 1857, Oris Cole, the son of a school board trustee from Buckingham, Quebec, came to Cloyne with his small, dark-haired immigrant bride…

Voter turnout up and down.

It’s not easy to find a logical pattern to explain the voter turnout in last week’s municipal election. In South Frontenac the turnout was 44.1%, up from 43% in 2006, but still down from the 50% turnout in 2003, the last year that South Frontenac residents voted by mail. They…

South Frontenac Township Council - Nov 2/10

Traffic issues in the Sydenham area Public Works Manager Mark Segsworth presented his analysis of traffic volumes and speed at the intersections of Stage-coach and Railton and Forest and Bound-ary, which he has done in order to establish appropriate signage and intersection…

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Back to HomeLetters - November 4, 2010Letters: Novermber 4 Something about Dalton, Paul M. Wicher Re: Sunday Gun Hunting, Steven Reynolds Halloween Theft, Charlene and Peter Dowsett Something about Dalton Here is what our premier has done for Ontario in the past seven years.…

Remembrance Reflections

Remembrance Day is just around the corner on Thursday November 11 when we will pause to remember the men and women who served in the First World War (1914- 1918), the Second World War (1939-1945) and the Korean War (1950-1953) and also those who died in subsequent peace keeping…