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Eastern Ontario Regional Network – Cell gap and high speed Internet projects

When the Eastern Ontario Wardens Caucus (EOWC) began meeting early in 2000's, their main purpose was to form a lobby group in order to secure more provincial funding for highways and other fixed infrastructure, in the wake of provincial downloading under the Mike Harris…

Hook’s Castle adds to storage capacity in a huge way

Cement trucks of all sorts and sizes were in and out of the back lot at Hook’s Castle Building Centre south of Cloyne Saturday as Stacie and Tracy Hook set about adding to their business in a big way. The new addition is a $1.2 million, 15,000 square foot building that will…

Lake Links Connects Cottagers Online

Watersheds Canada hosted its 19th Annual Lake Links Workshop late last month and the sessions proved educational and entertaining for the more than 200 participants. As the theme “Effective Engagement for Positive Action,” suggested, this year folks involved in the event learned…

Remembrance Services not the same this year, but the sentiments are

Back when we seniors were school children, Nov. 11 was the day we all gathered to remember the veterans, usually with an assembly and a march to the cenotaph where the veterans would solemnly assemble to place wreathes, listen to prayers, a reading of In Flanders Fields and a…

South Frontenac Council Meeting, Nov 3

(As you will have read, our printer has changed the deadline for Frontenac News to Monday. And a bonus treat for you, the reader: this change introduces elements of suspense, time-warp and mystery into my Council report: what you now have in your hands on Thursday Nov 5 is an…

Remembrance Reflections

November is a month of memories and remembering with Sun. Nov. 8 being National Aboriginal Veterans Day, and Nov. 11 being the National Day of Remembrance. With Covid precautions all services will be scaled back as we fight a new war on the disease of Covid 19. Like our…

Frontenac Heritage Festival cancelled

As with so many other community events this year, the Frontenac Heritage Festival (FHF) has been cancelled for February 2021. Limited gatherings and hall closures have made it impossible to proceed. The goal of the Festival has been two-fold: 1) provide economic stimulus in the…

November is Diabetes awareness Month

Blue is the universal colour! No, it isn’t pink, itit doesn’t involve breast checks, or gootball players, or t-shirts with catch all phrases! It’s about being grateful that you or your loved one wakes up in the morning. Its about the 3am blood sugar checks, the Low blood sugars,…

Fatal Collision on Road 506

On October 29, 2020, at approximately 10am officers of the Lennox & Addington (L&A) County Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and other emergency crews responded to a report of a two vehicle collision on County Road 506 in North Fontenac Township. L&A County OPP…

South Frontenac Township buys docking space in Battersea, off Loughborough Lake

A small village in South Frontenac Township is growing, according to a politician who represents the area. Speaking from his dairy farm in Battersea, Storrington District Councillor Ron Sleeth confirms the recent purchase of waterfront land by the township. “We’re purchasing the…