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Cecil Cota

OBITUARIES · Nov 3, 2021

Cecil Cota passed away peacefully at home on Friday, October 29, 2021 at the age of 90. Beloved husband of the late Goldie. Dear father of Tim (Penny) Cota, Steve (Denise) Cota and Sherri Hannah (the late Ben). Cherished grandfather of Mitchell, Will, Emily, Quinn, Saylor,…

Garnett, Gary Richard

OBITUARIES · Nov 3, 2021

Gary Richard Garnett, late of Regina, SK, passed away peacefully on Monday, October 25, 2021 at the age of 85 years. He was predeceased by his wife Elizabeth “Betty”; parents Edward and Jessie and is also reunited with his faithful companions, dogs Boo and CJ. Gary is survived…

Sydenham’s Haunted Barn’s Final Year

SOUTH FRONTENAC · Nov 3, 2021

“We always knew the barn was haunted,” says Cathy McNeill Richmond, “so everything else followed.” Mom Bev adds with a chuckle, “They thought the basement was haunted, too; even locked me down there once.” So perhaps it wasn’t entirely unusual that Cathy and her sister Lauren…

Change at the Top in North Frontenac

NORTH FRONTENAC · Nov 3, 2021

North Frontenac’s long service Chief Administrative Officer Cheryl Robson is set to retire at the end of the year, but will remain with the township until the summer of 2022 on a contract basis. North Frontenac Mayor Ron Higgins made the announcement at the end of a township…

The “new normal” is starting to look pretty normal

Editorials · Nov 3, 2021

Aside from a spike in cases in the local region over the last ten days, the news has been pretty good about COVID in Kingston Frontenac Lennox and Addington, and in Ontario as a whole. The 4th wave of COVID-19, fuelled by the Delta variant, did not result in much in that many…

Needle in chocolate bar prompts OPP response

SOUTH FRONTENAC · Nov 3, 2021

Early on November first, a Facebook post in South Frontenac quickly prompted a lot of attention. It was a picture of a chocolate bar, identified in the caption as a Kit Kat bar, with a sewing needle sticking out of the centre. The man who made the post said that his girlfriend…

Covid Case Rate Spikes In KFL&A

ADDINGTON HIGHLANDS · Nov 3, 2021

With 73 active cases, a case rate of 28.6 per 100,000 population in the preceding 7 days, and a testing positivity rate of 1.68%, Kingston Frontenac Lennox and Addington is in the throes of the highest rate of community spread it has seen throughout the entire COVID-19 pandemic,…

Is Canada's Longest War Being Forgotten Already?

General Interest · Nov 3, 2021

The wars that we often talk about on Remembrance Day have taken on different meanings over the years, and in Canada they defined generations, but they came and went pretty quickly in historical time. WWI lasted 4 years and a few months, WWII lasted 6 years and one day. Canada's…

GoFund Me campaign for Verona family

SOUTH FRONTENAC · Nov 3, 2021

Kate and Pat Joslin are well known as the Bear Root Gardens couple. They run a small seed company out of their backyard on Main Street in Verona. They also work in other jobs, and have two young daughters as well. Over the years, they have been involved with the Frontenac…

Pickleball players told seniors housing plan will try to accommodate their court

CENTRAL FRONTENAC · Nov 3, 2021

“I’ve driven by and it’s great to see all those folks there,” Mayor Frances Smith told a delegation of pickleball enthusiasts at the regular (online) meeting of Central Frontenac Council Oct. 26. “I do have my equipment and now I just need somebody to show me how to do it.”…

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