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Caregiver Support Available in Frontenac County

Barb Mundell is the community liaison for the volunteer hospice and bereavement services program that is available to families throughout Frontenac County and Addington Highlands. The program, which is coordinated by Katie Buckley, is operated out of Sydenham at Southern…

Car Pooling Service Up & Running

Residents now have a new way to arrange for personal transportation across the counties. Rural Frontenac Community Services has launched their community carpool website. See www.communitycarpool.ca. “Rural transportation is a challenge when you don’t drive or have a car and when…

NFLT Presents Ciara’s Coming Home

The Director of the North Frontenac Little Theatre’s forthcoming production of Ciara’s Coming Home, Adrian O’Connalr, said this week that he is astonished not only by the engagement of cast and crew in Clara’s Coming, but by public interest in the production as well. The one act…

What’s Up in the Night Sky? – April 2023

Welcome to the Lyrid meteor shower this month! It’s active from April 14 to the 30th. Its radiant is in the constellation Lyra and close to the bright star Vega. It peaks on the evening of the 22nd. Just in time at mid month, the constellation Lyra appears over the north eastern…

Community Columns - April 6th, 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…

Townships ‘Employs’ Porcupines To Clear Roadsides

Stone Miller Township has a history of trying unusual techniques to deal with human-wildlife conflicts within its boundaries. In 2006, the Eastern Ontario township hired Spike Callaghan, a ‘beaver whisperer’ from Maine, whose company makes a variety of beaver baffle devices.…

Millar, Glenace Beverly

Born on October 6, 1932, It is with deep sorrow that we announce the death of Glenace Beverly Millar (Sydenham, Ontario), who passed away in Milton Hospital with her children nearby on December 8, 2022. But it is with a joyful heart we rejoice in the soul’s reunion with…

Kevin John O’Donnell

Passed away peacefully at the Lennox & Addington General Hospital on Tuesday, March 21, 2023 after a brief illness. Kevin will always be cherished and forever missed by his brother Allan and sister Mary. Pre-deceased by his parents John & Margaret O’Donnell, brothers Michael,…

Rutherford, Peter George

Peter Rutherford, aged 69 years, died peacefully at his home in Carleton Place on March 21st, 2023, after a brief illness. Peter is predeceased by his parents Mervyn and Eleanor Rutherford and his brother-in-law Glenn Stinson. Peter is survived by his brother John Rutherford and…

Chicken Owner Feeling Henpecked in Court

Back in the fall of 2022, members of South Frontenac Council expressed their support for the idea of a 'chicken or two in every backyard' in light two cases where residents were facing charges for doing just that. Even though South Frontenac passed a bylaw in 2011 permitting…