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Nominate Your Favourite Local Business For The Annual Awards

The Frontenac Business Awards are back, and the nomination window runs until the end of October. The annual awards are recognition of a vibrant business community that often escapes notice, in a county that has no urban centre where businesses are concentrated in one place.The…

"An Insignificant Speck" and Margaret Axford's Legacy

(When Marg Axford died last month, she left a legacy of community achievement, including the development of Land O’Lakes Community Services, the Cloyne and District Historical Society, and Pine Meadow Nursing Home.She also left a legacy as a writer, including her 2004 book about…

New Digs for "Connections"

Connections Adult Learning has been seeking a new location for its Sharbot Lake headquarters for a number of years, hoping to find an opportunity to have more visibility in the core of the hamlet.When Executive Director Tracy Riddell learned that the former home of Lake District…

Perth Autumn Studio Tour

In 1993, a collection of local artisans established the first ​Perth Autumn Studio Tour​ and laid the foundation for one of the area’s finest and best-attended studio tours. We are a non-profit, artist-run tour, whose core values have remained unchanged since those beginning…

20 Years of Trail Tradition: Sydenham Fall Trail Run Marks a Milestone

On October 26th, the quiet trails of Sydenham, Ontario, will come alive with celebration as the Sydenham Fall Trail Run marks its 20th anniversary. What began in 2005 as a grassroots initiative by local trail enthusiast Derek Spafford has grown into a beloved seasonal tradition,…

Scouten, Lois Mary

Lois Mary Scouten in her 93rd year, passed away on September 20, 2025, peacefully at her sister Diana’s home where she resided for the last few years. She was the eldest daughter of Walter and Myrtle Scouten of Odessa and sister of Diana Asselstine and Larry Scouten (June). She…

Jones, Tammy Lee Cheryl

Surrounded by her family, passed away at Lennox & Addington County General Hospital on September 27, 2025 at the age of 66 years old.Beloved daughter of the late Edith Mae Jones, and the late Alfred Jones (Elaine)Much loved sister of Debbie Miles (David), Christine Lethbridge…

Blue Skies Festival Organisers Gather To Mark The Passing Of Oskar Graf

It was nothing like the thousands who gather on the August long weekend each summer at a normally abandoned field, halfway up the Clarendon Road, off Road 509 north of Sharbot Lake, but a few hundred people arrived gradually last Friday for a one time event.They set up their…

Truth And Reconciliation In Sharbot Lake

Marcie Webster, Chief Doreen Davis, Connie Deroneth and Jacqui Salmond of the Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nation Council and Staff were at Sharbot Lake beach on Tuesday (September 30) to mark National Truth and Reconciliation Day.They were selling orange shirt day t-shirts and flags…

North Frontenac Back Roads Studio Tour and Culture Days

Among the 33 artists who were showing their work at 20 studios across North Frontenac last weekend at the Back Roads Studio Tour, there was a cluster of four in the Snow Road area, including perennial favourites, textile artist Jenna Rose and cheese maker Jeff Fenwick at Back…