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Frontenac County will take the $240,000 one-time COVID funding from the City of Kingston, but … 

It was, to all appearances, a gesture of good-will towards Frontenac Paramedic Services by Kingston Mayor Bryan Paterson. A couple of weeks ago, during a Twitter broadcast, Paterson announced that he would be bringing forth a motion to Kingston City Council at their meeting on…

No new COVID cases in KFL&A

A week ago the COVID-19 picture in Kingston Frontenac Lennox and Addington looked very good with the exception of one concerning case, a patient in the Providence Manor Long Term Care Home in Kingston. By the end of the week, that case was revealed as a false positive. The…

Spaghetti fundraiser nets over 3 grand

Spaghetti fans from Ompah to Parham, Maberly to Arden, and all points in between, enjoyed a spaghetti and Caesar salad dinner from the Sharbot Lake Country Inn on Sunday night, taking a break from those endless home-cooked COVID meals. At a price of $15 per person for pickup or…

Central Frontenac gets clean bill of health from auditors

Central Frontenac Council held its second virtual meeting Tuesday afternoon to comply with Covid-19 social distancing regulations and received some good news from its auditors. “There really isn’t anything exciting here,” said Cara Chesney of MNP LLP auditors. “There were no…

Emotional Eating During the Covid-19 Pandemic

These are difficult and uncertain time, in the midst of the current Covid-19 pandemic. Almost everything is closed. Most people are staying at home and social and physical distancing to limit the spread of the virus. During this time, it may be difficult to cope with emotions,…

Come Home – Come Home now!

My husband, Dick, and I have become snowbirds, wintering in a little slice of paradise on Lake Chapala, Mexico. Many retired Canadians and Americans flood into the area every year for up to six months at a time. Our conversations are about the next local events or who you go to…

Our Connection Challenge

Before getting into the issue of this article, a brief history lesson. David Sarnoff was the Bill Gates of his generation. Beginning as a Marconi operator in the early part of the twentieth century, he recognized the potential of wireless technology and would go on to start the…

Driver Charged

Lennox and Addington County (L&A) Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers were called to an Addington Highlands cottage property after the owner located evidence of a trespasser in their cottage on the afternoon of April 10, 2020, at about 3:30 P.M. Officers located a driver…

NFU members keep their distance, but pickup tree seedlings.

Members of National Farmers Union Local 316 were planning to hold an event to celebrate the purchase of trees to be planted on the farmsteads of its members as a climate change mitigation initiative this week, but that couldn’t happen. Instead they arranged for the trees, a mix…

What is COVID-19

(A school assignment submitted to the News on the reccomendation of Noah Hertendy's teacher, Danielle Harding) Did you know that COVID-19 is killing people all over the world? It is a flu like virus that is spreading fast. The Government is telling us all to stay home for a…