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Eastern Ontario Regional Network Proposes Ultra-Fast Gig Internet Project

The Eastern Ontario Regional Network (EORN) is seeking federal and provincial support to deliver ultra-fast, Gig internet to homes and businesses in the region through a $1.6 billion public-private partnership. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the crisis in rural internet…

Land O’Lakes Food Bank

The Land O’Lakes Food Bank received a very special donation on Friday, August 14th from Maggie and Mary Hasler. Maggie was watching TV and saw a commercial about kids that don’t have enough food so she decided to collect money for the Food Bank when she heard that the food bank…

North Frontenac doesn’t approve proposed Ardoch Lake condo project

In a 5-2 vote against approval, North Frontenac Township Council won’t be giving its recommendation to Frontenac County for a proposed 23-unit vacant land condominium project on Ardoch Lake. The decision came at Council’s regular meeting online Friday. Mayor Ron Higgins and…

Lock it or lose it

Reminder to secure your vehicle and place valuables out of sight The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is encouraging citizens to "Lock It or Lose It". Recently, Frontenac OPP responded to several complaints in Verona of unlocked vehicles that were entered and items were stolen.…

Range of groups receive community grants

South Frontenac township doles out over $40,000 in community grants last month, including a carryover of almost $5,000 that wasn’t spent in 2019. The grants fall under four distinct categories: sponsorship, capital (matching funds), community assets and operating. Under…

Sharbot Lake library branch to re-open

There are now two Frontenac branches of the Kingston Frontenac Public Library that have reopened. On July 24, the Central Library branch in downtown Kingston reopened, as did the Isabel Turner and Calvin Park branches. The first Frontenac County to reopen was the Sydenham…

City of Kingston to pay up for Frontenac Paramedic Services and Fairmount Home, but not happily

The Council of the City of Kingston unanimously endorsed a proposal by Mayor Bryan Paterson to end a dispute with Frontenac County over how much the city is billed annually to cover its share of costs to run land ambulance services and the Fairmount Home. The proposal…

Merritta Parks 102nd birthday

When you reach Merritta Parks age, every birthday is something to celebrate. A lifelong residents of what is now Addington Highlands (the township did not come into existence until she was over 80, Merritta moved into Pine Meadow Nursing Homewhen she was in her mid-nineties. She…

Survey shows! 2020 is not a stellar business year in Frontenac County

The Frontenac County Economic Development department has conducted its third business survey since the onset of COVID-19. The first was in early April, the second in late May, and the third was completed on August 3rd. “Even though the surveys all received a good response, many…

Time to Revive Buck Lake’s Extinct Mutant Trout

As Frontenac County emerges from COVID-19 and we collectively look for creative ways to rekindle any sort of economic flame in our tourism sector, the time is right to reintroduce a mutant trout that once called many of our lakes home. The lab-engineered species in question is…