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History is important as it tends to repeat itself.

Letters · Mar 30, 2022

By the nineties Ontarians had become aware of the virus HIV which changed the way we socialize in Ontario still till this day. Move forward to 2019 and Ontario becomes aware of a virus Covid which has changed the way we socialize in Ontario still to this day. In the middle…

Storeowners Cautious As COVID Mandates End

CENTRAL FRONTENAC · Mar 23, 2022

Grocery store owners in the region are treating the end of the mask and distancing mandates as another COVID pivot, rather than the end of the pandemic. They are not selling off their supply of masks at bargain prices in response to the end of masking mandates in their…

Workplace accident claims Verona’s Daniel Vanheyst

SOUTH FRONTENAC · Mar 23, 2022

Daniel Vanheyst was working at a site in Oshawa for Eco-Tree Care, a Kingston/Frontenac based company on Wednesday morning (March 16), when he was killed in a workplace incident. He was 22. The Ministry of Labour is investigating. A family friend, Mimi Haws, published a…

Addington Highlands facing 5% tax increase

ADDINGTON HIGHLANDS · Mar 23, 2022

Addington Highlands Council held three meetings last week, the regular meeting (March 15) and two budget meetings (March 16). As the budget meetings kicked off, CAO/Clerk-Treasurer Christine Reed told Council that the 2022 draft budget contained wage increases (7.11 per cent)…

The Shape Of Things To Come

Editorials · Mar 23, 2022

Cheaper Dental & Pharmacare & Unfettered Development In recent weeks, the prospect of a second Doug Ford term in government has been coming into focus, and we need only look back to the first few months of the first Ford term for some hints about what that will look like. The…

Doctor Recruitment & Expropriation Discussed At County Level

FRONTENAC COUNTY · Mar 23, 2022

At their regular monthly meeting, Frontenac County Council spent as much time in an in camera session as they did in the open session that followed. The closed session dealt with attendance management, the potential location of a new ambulance base in Kingston, and land…

South Frontenac Council

SOUTH FRONTENAC · Mar 23, 2022

Southern Frontenac Community Services Update David Townsend, Executive Director of Southern Frontenac Community Services (SFCS) appeared via Zoom, to report on the progress of the financing and construction phases of the Grace Centre expansion. Architect Todd Colborne has…

North Frontenac Axes Seniors Housing RFP

NORTH FRONTENAC · Mar 23, 2022

After getting no takers on their request for proposals to build a five-unit seniors apartment complex in either Plevna or Cloyne, North Frontenac Council decided to pull the plug on the entire project at a special (electronic) meeting March 21. Most of Council felt the…

Sap season a business to some, a passion and a hobby to others

CENTRAL FRONTENAC · Mar 23, 2022

Maple syrup season has been moving in fits and starts over the past two weeks, as the weather fluctuates in and out of the sweet zone of frosty nights and warmer days that allows maple trees to draw moisture from the ground, and send sap up the tree. Commercial Maple Syrup…

Community Columns - March 24, 2022

Community Columns · Mar 23, 2022

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 Mountain Grove Ompah Parham-Tichborne Perth Road Plevna…

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