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How Live Music Survived the Pandemic: Jon McLurg & Noah St. Amand

Jon Mclurg, Singer, Song Writer, Guitarist, and Cajon player Q. Carol Gilpin (Fan Club Secretary) told me that you have nearly 800 fan club members, mostly in the Maritimes, how did this come about? A. When I began to do on-line-shows in May of 2020, it was mostly people…

Developing Affordable Housing In Rural Ontario Will Not Be Easy

The “7 in 7” regional housing project that Hasting County Chief Administrator Jim Pine brought to a combined meeting of Frontenac County and township councils last week in Verona, was similar in some ways to a proposal he brought to Frontenac County about 15 years ago. At that…

Flyers Return From Provincials As Champs

In youth sports the word champions is often tied to success in the win-loss column. Our U13 Frontenac Flyers have certainly had tremendous success in this regard. The OMHA provincial champships held in Barrie was the final test for this hard working and enthusiastic team. Owing…

Frontenac County And ‘7 In 7’ Regional Housing Plan

At a combined meeting of Frontenac County and the four Frontenac township councils, representatives from the Eastern Ontario Wardens Caucus (EOWC) and the Eastern Ontario Regional Network (EORN) were on hand with updates on the activities of the two inter-related organisations.…

Volunteer Week is Upon Us - Let’s Celebrate!

This week, April 16-22, is National Volunteer Week (NVW), and it is appropriate that is also ties in nicely with the upcoming Pitch-In week that happens annually the 2nd-3rd week of April. In Frontenac, the thank you dinners have begun for local volunteers and the townships are…

Joint South Frontenac COW-Council Meeting April 11

Proposed Update to Council Procedure By-law What would usually be a COW meeting was opened as a Council meeting. Currently, Council meets on the first and third Tuesday of each month, and Committee of the Whole (COW) on the second. COW meetings provide a time for Council members…

Structure Fire On Hwy 7 In Kaladar

The Lennox and Addington (L&A) County Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a fire on Hwy 7 just west of Kaladar to assist the Fire Department with traffic control. Today at approximately 12:30 p.m. the L&A OPP responded with the Addington Highlands Fire…

Sharbot Lake High School & The Cadet Corps

A 75 Reunion memory In 1948, when the school opened its door for the very first time, World War Two had just ended three years previously. Many men and women of the area had gone to war and sadly some hadn’t come home. The Canadian Armed Forces funded cadets in schools to train…

Classical Music Recital at Arden United Church

Sylvia Goodeve (Piano) Patrick Kline (Cello) Philip Candelaria (Guitar) Classical Music at Arden United Church Sylvia Goodeve could not have known, when she and her partner Bill Wong became full time residents on Blue Heron Ridge Lane on Kennebec Lake last summer, that she was…

Garden Club Asks BMO To Reconsider Closing Branch

We are writing to respectfully express deep dismay, and to request an open-minded review, in mutual good faith, of the recently announced decision (via form letter) to close the Northbrook BMO branch, effective September 29, 2023.* We are a remote, culturally diverse community…