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Water Levels Receding On Skootamatta Lake

It is suspected that a beaver dam breached upstream of Skootamatta Lake during a rainfall event on July 1st. This has caused water levels to rise quickly on the lake and exceed average spring and summer conditions, leading Quinte Conservation to issue a Water Safety Statement on…

Sydenham Point Park Beach Reopens After New Test

Testing at the beginning of this week showed that the E.coli levels in the water off the Point Beach in Sydenham Lake had returned to safe levels, and the beach was reopened to swimmers on July 12. One week earlier, on July 5, KFL&A Public Health notified the Township that the…

Community Columns - July 13th, 2023

These columns from our community reporters are updated every week. Table of Contents Arden Battersea/Storrington Cloyne - Northbrooke Denbigh Godfrey Harlowe Harrowsmith Henderson Inverary Maberly-Bolingbroke Mississippi Ompah Parham-Tichborne Perth Road Plevna Sydenham Verona…

Kudos to North Frontenac

It’s clear that even with a four-day workweek, great service is still available from North Frontenac Township staff. Several downed trees were blocking our road on Friday. One quick call to a helpful township office staffer and someone was dispatched within the hour, quickly…

Re: Burn Bans

After reading a letter from Kathleen O’Hara for attacking our local paper and way of voting in South Frontenac calling us all denialist I had to reply to this letter. If people want to call out our newspapers for informing readers that we have burning bands across the county and…

Re: Burn Bans

Regarding the letter in this week’s paper from a visiting friend, about the reports in the Frontenac News of Burn Bans “with no mention of the causes”, I’d say in this instance, the Fires and the Burn Bans were the news. We have to be careful about jumping to conclusions from…

Fatal boating incident on Big Clear in Arden

On Wednesday July 5, 2023 at about 4:30 p.m. members of Frontenac Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) along with Central Frontenac Fire Rescue responded to a marine incident on Big Clear Lake in Central Frontenac Township. Reports indicated that an individual on a Personal…

Frontenac County Celebrates Canada

When you Wiki Canada Day it brings you back to 1867 where a Governor General proclaimed we shall all celebrate the Canadian Confederation, or Dominion Day, as it used to be known. By 1982, it was renamed to Canada Day, more aptly titled for the celebration of being Canadian, and…

ATV Extended Access On K&P Trail To Be Looked At This Week

Marc Moeys, the President of the Verona District ATV Club, made a presentation to Frontenac County Council in April. Much of Moey's presentation dealt with the activities of the club along the K&P trail between Verona and Sharbot Lake, where the club helps to maintain the trail…

One Newspaper Chain For all Ontario – Should Have Seen This Coming

I was scrolling through some news sites last week, when I stumbled on an article about Post Media and Metroland joining forces. I did not see that coming, but maybe I should have. Coming up on 6 years ago, the two companies swapped a total of almost 40 papers, a the new ‘owner’…