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Tooley, Wendy (Seibert)

OBITUARIES · Aug 16, 2023

It is with great sadness that we announce the sudden passing of Wendy (Seibert) Tooley of Northbrook and Arden in her 71st year on August 15th, 2023. Wendy was a loving partner of 30 years to Grant Preston. She will be missed by children Lynette of Montreal and Shawanoswe (Erin)…

Rosenblath, Rodger Charles

OBITUARIES · Aug 16, 2023

It is with heavy hearts, that the Rosenblath family announces the passing of Rodger Charles Rosenblath, at the Renfrew Victoria Hospital in the early evening of 12 August 2023, just shortly after his 70th birthday. Rodger had a long battle with cancer and was with his loving…

Sydenham High School - 150 Years Old

SOUTH FRONTENAC · Aug 16, 2023

Sydenham was a boomtown in the last quarter of the 1800’s, a mining and lumber centre with two 3-storey hotels and numerous smaller ones, lumber and grist mills, taverns and tannery. There were brickworks, breweries, bakeries and blacksmiths; churches, doctors, ministers,…

Frontenac County Physician Recruitment Proposal Gets a Reality Check

FRONTENAC COUNTY · Aug 16, 2023

When doctors Gibbens and Dietrich from the Verona and Sydenham Medical Clinics, along with Deborah Krause, Administrator of the Sharbot Lake Family Health Team, appeared before Frontenac County in February of this year, they outlined the need for support for an increasingly…

Steeple Bell To Become Monument On Site Of Fallen Parham Church

CENTRAL FRONTENAC · Aug 16, 2023

Central Frontenac Council gave its approval in principle to a project in which the Township would purchase the former St. James Anglican Church property for a cost of $2 and undertake associated costs of insuring the property in the future, conditional on the Anglican Diocese…

The Return Of A Climate Change Resiliency Researcher

ADDINGTON HIGHLANDS · Aug 16, 2023

Ten years ago, Robert Mclemon presented the results of a research project that he had spent five years working on, at a public forum at North Addington Education Centre in Cloyne. He was a climate change researcher and, at the time, an associate professor at Wilfred Laurier, who…

Our Secret Weapon in Social Media Landscape

Editorials · Aug 16, 2023

As of last week, as readers of our August 10 editorial are aware, the Frontenac News has been blocked from Facebook, presumably until the dispute between the Government of Canada and Meta is resolved. At the news, we are like a flea caught up in a battle between giants, to be…

SHS 150th bash: The party of the decade in Sydenham

SOUTH FRONTENAC · Aug 16, 2023

Members of the Sydenham High School 150th anniversary Committee began talking and planning for the celebration weekend a couple of years ago. That led to a formal committee being established, many, many small group meetings and 16 full scale organising meetings; hundreds of…

RFCS Receives OTF Funds For A New Roof On Child Centre Building

CENTRAL FRONTENAC · Aug 16, 2023

Sharbot Lake, ON – On Wednesday, Rural Frontenac Community Services celebrated the $46,200 Capital fund grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation to replace the roof at the Child Centre. Originally built in 1990, the roof was badly in need of replacement after 33 years of…

Blue Box Program changes in North Frontenac may take hold elsewhere

NORTH FRONTENAC · Aug 16, 2023

At their meeting later this week, North Frontenac Council will consider a proposal by Public Works Manager Darwyn Sproule to begin sending recycled materials to a Napanee based Material Recovery Facility instead of one in Belleville which they have used for a number of years. In…

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