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A tough budget, in an election year to boot South Frontenac Council met an hour earlier than usual in order to discuss the 2010 budget, managing to review Environmental Services and Roads. CAO Wayne Orr outlined the challenge facing Council: "This draft budget has been drawn up…
Editorial by Jeff Green On March 2 in Sharbot Lake, the final death knell for schools in two communities might be rung. The meeting at Sharbot Lake High School will be the last opportunity for public expression before the Board of Trustees of the Limestone District School Board…
Curtis Davison and his grade 6-8 class. The official opening of the new Plevna branch of the Kingston Frontenac Public Library takes place today, February 18 at 2:00 pm, but the branch has been up and running since last Tuesday. On February 12 the grade 6-8 class at Clarendon…
Back to HomeFeature Article - February 18, 2010Kicking Off Flinton’s Relay for Life by Julie Druker This year the annual Canadian Cancer Society’s Relay for Life for Frontenac, Lennox and Addington counties will be moving north and will be hosted for the first time in Flinton.…
The Ompah Conservation Association’s (OCA) Fish Hatchery received a healthy dose of community support recently, resulting in the appointment of a new executive board of volunteers early in December. The future of the hatchery became uncertain last year when past OCA president…
Some users of the Ompah Library were shocked to find out that library hours there have been cut back. A recent press release announcing the re-opening of the Plevna branch, which was closed over a year ago due to an insurmountable mold problem, stated that hours at the Plevna…
by Susan Ramsay, Early Literacy Specialist Ten-month-old Kyle had been stacking blocks with his mom. Repeatedly they had built small towers and knocked them down. “Oh no! Fall down!” Maybe it was the excitement of causing his blocks to crash that led Kyle to chuck one of them…
Bret Colman, the honorable Monique Smith, Sally Colman and Beth Pointer, executive director of Camping Ontario. Photo courtesy of Bret and Sally Colman This weekend on Saturday Feb.13 from 10am-2pm the Frontenac Stewardship Council and Frontenac Stewardship Foundation will be…
It’s grrrreat to be a Lion. And what a grrrreat feeling to know that you can positively affect some aspect of another person’s life. Many hands make light work and we have a lot of work to do. Whether you have a few hours a week or only a couple of hours a month, your Sharbot…
by: Lorraine Julien As we do many mornings after a fresh snowfall, we were snowshoeing along some of our regular trails recently. The air was still and all was quiet except for the soft swooshing sound of the snowshoes. In the distance we could hear the occasional woodpecker…
