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Mera’s Popular Christmas Fair To Be Held Virtually 

MERAs 18th Annual Christmas Fair is moving online. From November 15th through December 20th visitors to www.meraschoolhouse.org will be able find special gifts for those they love. Even though the MERA Schoolhouse will be empty for this year’s Christmas event, the much-loved…

KFPL Announces Free Online Tutoring Program For Tweens And Teens

In It to Win It is a virtual tutoring and homework drop-in facilitated for Kingston and Frontenac teens by Kingston and Frontenac teens. Do you know a Grade 7 or 8 student who is struggling in Math, Science, English, French, or another middle school subject? Do you know an older…

On amalgamation

I am a somewhat recent arrival to the Central Frontenac area, having come just after amalgamation. My postal address includes RR2 of Arden. When my then wife and I arrived in 2003, we were encouraged by the fact that within a five minute drive of our residence were a good…

Re – Our rebel MPP

Thanks Jeff, for the great picture of Randy our rebel MPP. I do believe if the truth was known, you would be astounded by the numbers of the 12000 households this paper reaches, who are in agreement with Mr. Hillier. Many of us certainly question the direction given by our gov't…

Re: Randy Hillier

I am responding to the Nov 5th article, 'Lockdowns, Restrictions & Our MPP.' As one of Randy Hillier's 17,000 Twitter followers, I know of 10+ other people who don't have Twitter accounts who also hold similar views to MPP Hillier's; and we appreciate that we have a voice in the…

Sparks, Gordon Robertson

B.A., M.A., Ph.D. 1939-2020 On Thursday, November 5, 2020, our beloved Gordon, surrounded by the love of his family, went to be with our Lord. Son of Jean Robertson and Dr. Balfour Beverly Sparks. Loving husband to Sandra and cherished father to Leslie (Karama) and Ian (Tara).…

There’s more to Godfrey than meets the eye.

For vehicles speeding along Road 38, Godfrey is merely an intersection with two or three businesses on one side of the road and the Westport Road on the other. However, not only was it once the location of a major stop on the K&P rail line because of a nearby iron mine, it was…

Community Lantern Walk

At sunset on Saturday, Nov 7, 28 people gathered in the parking lot at MERA in McDonalds Corners to light lanterns for the Lantern Walk. Old lanterns from deep in MERA's history arrived in a truck. Small lanterns made by children the day before were shared. Others had lanterns…

Root causes of tax rate differences in Frontenac County

The Frontenac News ran an editorial two weeks ago (Vol. 20, edition 41, October 29) about a consultant’s report on how to improve the delivery of services from a cost and efficiency point of view in Frontenac County. The option of full integration of service delivery, municipal…

Why I wear the Poppy each November

Each year Canadians don their Poppies to honour our veterans and their sacrifice for our nation. Unfortunately, each year you also seem to see fewer and fewer of these iconic Canadian symbols on the lapels of passersby. That is sad. Everyone has a reason to remember and feel…