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Maintaining good mental health in these times

All of us are experiencing some degree of stress as we deal with the current pandemic and this puts a strain on our mental health. Good mental health requires two basic things; safety and connection. The most basic challenge to our mental health is the sense that we have no…

Hope

For the past few years, I have often caught myself staring at my daughter contemplating the kind of world she will inherit. Every year that passed it felt the world was tipping ever closer to the brink of no return. A sense of hopelessness always weighed heavily on my heart.…

Attack prospect has roots in Perth Road

Although Corbin Votary is from Napanee, his last name will be familiar to many in Frontenac County. He has deep family roots in the Perth Road region, and his grandparents Allan and Brenda still live there. Corbin is a goalie, and follows in the tradition of elite goalies from…

Central Frontenac Council report

Central Frontenac Township held its regular meeting as scheduled Tuesday afternoon but although everything on the agenda was dealt with, it was hardly business as usual. With the current Covid-19 crisis in play, Mayor Frances Smith and CAO/Clerk Cathy MacMunn were in the…

South Frontenac Council

South Frontenac Council’s first electronic meeting went very smoothly. Three of us were physically present, widely separated, in the echoing Council chambers; (bearded) Mayor Vandewal, Clerk Maddox, and myself, representing the Frontenac News. CAO Carbone and Fragnito, Director…

Frontenac County approves 2020 budget

It’s been 4 months since Frontenac County Council approved a draft budget, but with all that has happened since then, it might as well have been 4 years ago. County policy dictates that in all years, except those following a municipal election, the budget process is to be…

Impaired driver charged over Easter Weekend

On Saturday April 11, 2020 shortly before 2:30 a.m. Frontenac Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received a traffic complaint from a concerned motorist about an aggressive driver on Road 38 near West Port Road. Officers located the vehicle in the area of the complaint and attempted…

No Planes, Trains, or Automobiles.

How strange the quiet is. I heard a plane 3 nights ago. We’re on a bit of a flight path, so without the near-constant sound of planes, and without the sound of trains and cars going by, our world is becoming less polluted. Maybe we’ll become better, more in touch with ourselves,…

They have it backwards

A burn ban, fine, it always rains steady after they bring it in, but banning campfires? We enjoy sitting around the campfire, distancing ourselves, and cannot understand why a campfire ban. How many of those have gotten away last year? I got my taxes in the mail on the same day…

Daniel H. Connor, MD

Daniel H. Connor, MD (Daniel H. Connor, MD, 91, renowned pathologist and specialist in tropical diseases, died of natural causes on Wednesday, March 25, 2020 at the Asbury Methodist Village retirement community in Gaithersburg, MD. Born on March 26, 1928 in Aylmer, Ontario,…