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by Susan Ramsay, Early Literacy Specialist Sometimes it’s just hard to know. When spring is especially early and the risk of frost has tipped from imminent possibility to fading memory, is it too soon to plant geraniums? What is the probability of another snowstorm in March…
Grace United Church in Sydenham. On May 16 at 2pm the Grace United Church will be holding its final service before it closes its doors for good. The service will bring an end to a Sydenham landmark that this month will be just one year short of its 150th birthday. The stately…
An experienced group of actors who work beautifully together, are performing a three-night run of The Importance of Being Earnest at Sydenham High this weekend. This last and best of Oscar Wilde’s plays is full of biting humour, poking fun at marriage, social hypocrisy, and…
There are a few practical reasons why the North Frontenac Little Theatre were tempted to produce Nunsense II some 16 years ago, and Nunsense in 2010. For one thing they are small-cast musicals, allowing for the audience appeal of a musical with a lot less of the complications of…
The planting crew rests after planting a crabapple tree-back row,l-r Mrs. Walker and Corrie-Lyn Shields, front row, l-r- Julie White, Sarah Watkins and Tori Klatt-(missing are garden friends Emily and Janet Brooks). Photo courtesy of Jayne Walker Students at Clarendon Central…
Public Works Issues Public Works Manager Mark Segsworth reported purchase of a rubber-tired excavator, which will also have a brushing attachment. After test driving machines from the three lowest bidders, staff recommended the third lowest bid ($263,290) as the best unit for…
Organizers of the Relay for Life event, which is scheduled for the Flinton Recreation Centre on June 11 & 12, have been hard at work since January, and although the event is still six weeks off they have already had a measure of success. According to coordinator Carolyn Hasler,…
Sustainability has a green connotation these days, but for the Land O'Lakes Tourist Association (LOLTA) it also has to do with survival. The 67-year-old association, which boasts 223 member businesses in Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Counties and the Municipality of Tweed,…
In late April this year a delegation of eight Algonquin chiefs from communities in Quebec appeared at Parliament Hill to present a declaration that was written on a piece of buckskin. The chiefs said they were not making any kind of a land claim; they were just making a…
Taxes jump by 6.7% in Addington Highlands Addington Highlands Council will be increasing their net levy to ratepayers by $114,000 in 2010. In 2009 the total amount raised through taxation in the township was $1.68 million, whereas in 2010 it will be $1.79 million, an increase of…
