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Olive Allen (nee Lusk)

OBITUARIES · Jun 20, 2024

With broken hearts and great sadness, the family announces the peaceful passing of Olive at Perth & Smiths Falls District Hospital (Perth Site) on Wednesday, June 12, 2024, surrounded by her family and just shy of her 95th birthday. Olive was predeceased by her husband William…

Harret Riddell – North Frontenac Senior of the Year

NORTH FRONTENAC · Jun 13, 2024

Harriet Riddell has lived near Mississippi Station, on Robertsville Road in what had been a mining town, for a long time, but that is not where she is from. She was born and lived her first 16 years in Snow Road, before marrying David Riddell when she was 17, and moving a few…

Farmer’s Market Takes Over Centennial Park

SOUTH FRONTENAC · Jun 13, 2024

Road signs had been strategically placed, catching the eye of passersby with the promise of the Annual Frontenac Farmer’s Market’s return to Centennial Park every Friday evening. As the week drew to a close and Friday afternoon arrived, a flurry of activity began. Vendors…

South Frontenac Lays Out Plans For Office Renovation

SOUTH FRONTENAC · Jun 13, 2024

Big changes coming soon: the tender for the Town Hall expansion in Sydenham is in the process of being issued, and will close mid-July. The plan is to reconfigure and expand the existing spaces and the project is expected to take a year, more or less, starting this fall. So…the…

Celebrate MERA’s 25th Anniversary on June 22nd

Lanark County · Jun 13, 2024

We invite you to celebrate MERA’s 25th year! Join us at the MERA Schoolhouse (974 Concession Road 9A Dalhousie, McDonalds Corners) on Saturday June 22nd from 10am to 3pm for Community Day at MERA. There will be artists in action throughout the day, with basket makers, potters,…

Investigations into recent fatal crashes will take time to be completed

Editorials · Jun 13, 2024

Early this week, a Frontenac OPP release came out announcing that an arrest had been made in a fatal collision case. The arrest was not related to either of the recent fatal incidents in Frontenac County. It was neither the car crash on Burke Settlement Road in Central…

Treasures in the Attic

SOUTH FRONTENAC · Jun 13, 2024

What to do on Saturday morning? Fran Gibson and I decided to visit “Treasurers in the Attic” sponsored by the South Frontenac Museum on Saturday, June 8th. We received a warm welcome from Jane Adamson, museum volunteer, who invited us to sign the guest list. I had forgotten how…

Addington Highlands to work with County GIS strategic plan

ADDINGTON HIGHLANDS · Jun 13, 2024

Although it has no GIS (Geographical Information Systems) personnel or equipment of its own, Addington Highlands Council passed a motion to work with Lennox & Addington County on a GIS strategic plan at its regular meeting June 4 in Flinton. In a letter to Council, County…

Road 38 Construction Planning Proceeding To The Next Phase

SOUTH FRONTENAC · Jun 13, 2024

A public open house is scheduled for later this month to present plans for the rebuild of Road 38. The section of road runs 5.8 kilometres, from the southern township border with Kingston at Orser Road, up to Kingston Road, at the foot of Harrowsmith. The cost of reconstruction…

MVCA Looking At Putting Together A Strategic Plan

NORTH FRONTENAC · Jun 13, 2024

North Frontenac Council welcomed two representatives of the Mississippi Valley Conservation Authority (MVCA) at its Jun 6 meeting in Plevna. First to speak was Sally McIntyre, general manager, who spoke on the MVCA’s Land Conservation Strategy as well as a future strategic plan…

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