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Community support of the Sydenham Library (a branch of the KFPL, known to be the most heavily used of all the branches in Frontenac County outside the City) has been heard and respected by South Frontenac Council. At December 14 Committee of the Whole, staff recommended Council…
Frontenac County does not charge user fees on The K&P trail, which has been built over a 10 year period, mostly through a variety of trail construction grants. The trail is not available to motorised vehicles south of Verona, except seasonally by snowmobiles. But north of…
(Editors note – this article was edited after the version that was included in the January 27 print edition of the Frontenac News was printed) The post office at Ardoch has been closed by Canada Post since January 17, and customers who have parcels to pick up have to drive to…
In October 2021, an informal survey was done of the trees in Oso Park (Sharbot Lake Beach). There were approximately 23. “Approximately” because opinions may differ on what’s a tree and what’s a bush. The 23 trees include a half dozen over-mature Manitoba maples and an equal…
Review of Proposed 2022 Capital Budget Note: Capital items relate to infrastructure or assets owned by the Township along with other initiatives, such as studies, which help support future capital investment decisions. This included the close-out of the 2021 Private Lane Upgrade…
During a COVID-19 briefing last week, Dr. Piotr Oglaza said that he expects the coming 'endemicity' will change the way we all deal with the virus. For a second or two, I did not catch the meaning of the word. I could not remember ever hearing it before and I thought maybe I…
“It’s fun just sitting around talking about garbage, isn’t it?” Addington Highlands Dep. Reeve Tony Fritsch said while presenting the Waste Diversion Working Group report at the regular (online) Council meeting Jan. 18. The report contained a number of ideas that could reduce…
There are only bad times for house fires, but the one last week at 3158 Bell Line Road (just north of Sharbot Lake off Road 509) took place at an even worse time. The fire was called in at 5:17 am on Friday morning (January 22) when the temperature was below -30 Celsius and the…
The Cloyne and District Historical Society (CDHS) has created a new Flickr website devoted to our local cemeteries. The new website: https://flickr.com/photos/cdhscemeteries/ currently has over 1,100 highresolution gravestone photos. To date, photos of every grave in the…
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…
