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Optimism in KFL&A as case load drops, and vaccine program continues to speed up.

Three weeks ago, in the wake of a COVID-19 outbreak at a construction site, that was causing the largest number of cases in the region over the entire pandemic, Dr. Kieran Moore, the soon to be former Medical Officer of Health for the region, was still hopeful that the trend in…

Parham – song and video recall last year’s fire

Greg Tilson is a musician and writer who is part of the Gertrudes, a folk collective based in Kingston. He has a family cottage near Mississippi Station and drives through Parham several times a summer to get there. When the Parham Fire took place last June, destroying St. James…

North Frontenac to spend $6,000 to create boat launch on Benny Lake

This spring, an issue arose in North Frontenac regarding access to Benny Lake, a small lake in Cloyne. Mr. Philp owns property on the lake, and after completing a survey of his property, it has become clear that the boat launch that has been used by the public for many years is…

Anybody wanna buy a (government) dock . . . or two?

Central Frontenac Council finished all the business on its agenda in less than an hour (59 minutes) at its regular (online) meeting Tuesday. There really wasn’t anything terribly controversial to be discussed but perhaps one item could have lasting effects in the near future.…

Bad internet disrupts North Frontenac Council meeting but they get through it

Nowhere was the need for better broadband service more evident than in North Frontenac Council’s regular (online) Friday, during which several spotty connections during the middle of the meeting made things nearly incomprehensible even to the point where Coun. John Inglis asked…

Rosemarie Bowick always made a difference

I met Rosemarie Bowick sometime after she and her husband Bill decided to 'retire' to Sharbot Lake in the late 1990s. I always thought of them as co-conspirators. Even though they would take on their own projects, the other one would be, happily or not, drafted to help out. It…

Community Columns - June 02, 2021

These columns from our community reporters are updated every week. Table of Contents Arden Battersea/Storrington Cloyne - Northbrooke Denbigh Harlowe Harrowsmith Henderson Inverary Maberly-Bolingbroke Mississippi Mountain Grove Ompah Parham-Tichborne Perth Road Plevna Sydenham…

What’s Up in the Night Sky? June 2021

On June 10th, an Annular Solar Eclipse will be visible over northern Ontario. An annular eclipse happens when the Moon doesn’t quite cover the whole solar disk and the Sun can still be seen around the shadow of the Moon. It occurs when the Moon is at apogee or farthest in its…

Community Foundation Spring Grants

A total of $232,000 was granted to 25 local charities for a variety of projects – large and small – but all designed to have big impact and enhance the quality of life in our community. The grants cover all the Community Foundation’s fields of interest, which include: Arts &…

Conservation Area trails and other public spaces at risk

Submitted by Mississippi Valley Conservation Proposed provincial regulations governing conservation authorities (CAs) will remove visitor amenities such as parking lots and trails from the core mandate of CAs. Doing this will remove their eligibility for funding under the…