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Frontenac County to consider a $2.8 million office renovation project

A process that has been crawling along for half a decade is about to reach the final decision point before Frontenac County tax payers will be burdened with construction costs to renovate the Frontenac County Offices. The offices are located in a building that is called the “Old…

Celebrating Green designation at CF Council

Central Frontenac Council’s regular (online) meeting Tuesday was one of the shortest on record, clocking in under a half-hour. (At least for the portion that was open to the public, there was a closed session that followed to discuss litigation affecting the fire department.)…

South Frontenac Committee of the Whole

A Sydenham Creek Bridge Again? Councillor Sutherland reported he has heard a lot of complaints about snowmobiles using Sydenham sidewalks. They intimidate pedestrians, and are destructive of the concrete. Most times, the snowmobiles are travelling between the trail and the gas…

Concrete, It's Not so Easy Being Green

Concrete like your foundation or garage floor added carbon dioxide to our atmosphere and is heavily involved in climate change. We use about 4 billion tonnes of cement each year to build with. That concrete is responsible for about 8% of the global emissions of carbon dioxide…

OPP Reports

Driver Charged After Collision On February 10, 2021 shortly after 11:00 p.m. an officer from Frontenac Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received a report of a collision on Ardoch Road in North Frontenac Township, Ontario. As a result of the investigation Adrien TURNER, a 24 year…

SF Caretakers Retire after 50 Years

Tom and Dorothy Fish have just retired after 50 years of caretaking for South Frontenac Township in the Sydenham area. They began with cleaning the Loughborough Township hall and then the library addition in Sydenham, and most recently have been at Keeley Road offices ever since…

Dump Amnesty

I would like you to keep the amnesty program. Council members have been whining about the garbage situation forever and ever. I am tired of them blaming the good folks in this township just to extract more money from them. Our township has the highest property taxes and the good…

Green Status

As we all have had about a week of green covid status, I fear that it will be short lived as many from outside of these areas will flock in and numbers will again jump and we will join the rest of the province in lockdown. Or, alternatively, we can do what is in our control and…

Dump Amnesty

I am the owner of four properties located in Central Frontenac, two rental houses, my own residence and an old church that I am renovating. Every single one of these properties came in a miserable state of disrepair, often filled with garbage. I have fixed rotting buildings and…

Unfair Editorial

The editorial on Page 2 of last week's News accusing eastern Ontario wardens of a "lack of vision" is grossly unfair. While Jeff Green is right to outline the anomalies surrounding the funding of retirement homes such as Pine Meadow in Northbrook, it is totally wrong to point…