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Nature Quiz Night to support Byrne Big Creek Campaign

On January 30, Mississippi Madawaska Land Trust is hosting a fun Nature Quiz Night at the Golden Arrow Pub, 71 Foster Street in Perth. This fun evening is a part of the current campaign to raise the funds needed for the stewardship of the 100-acre Byrne Big Creek Nature Preserve…

Inverary trio face charges after heroin, fentanyl, cannabis found in home

SEARCH WARRANT EXECUTED SOUTH FRONTENAC - Drugs, firearms seized On Thursday January 18, 2018, members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Frontenac Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU), assisted by the Napanee and Prince Edward (CSCU), executed a Search Warrant at a residence…

New vandalism report - This time on Sharbot Lake

OPP released information today about an investigation that was initiated on January 17th, when a cottager on Craig's Island, Sharbot Lake (west basin) contactedd them about damage to their cottage. Police have no information indicating a connection between these break ins and…

Debra Anne Hill (Teal)

April 13, 1968 - January 13, 2018 Beloved wife of Kevin Teal. Dear mother of Jesse (Sarah), Chantel (Owen), Frank (Sophie). Treasured Nanny to Bridgette, Remington and Tucker. Debbie will be deeply missed by her sister Janet (Brian), all her brother and sisterinlaws, nieces and…

Wilson, Muriel Ellen

June 17, 1930 - January 12, 2018 It's with sad and heavy hearts that we say goodbye to our Mother, Muriel (nee Hickerson) Wilson, who passed away on January 12, 2018 at the Brockville General Hospital. Born June 17, 1930 in Trenton Ontario, predeceased by her husband Walter…

Irving Ellwood Kerwin

Irving Ellwood Kerwin of Brighton, formerly of Carrying Place and Flinton passed away peacefully at the Belleville General Hospital on Saturday, January 13, 2018 in his 86th year. Loving husband of Shirley (McCulloch) and the late Elvira (Jaffray).. Proud father of Linda Cerqua…

BENN, Roy Coleman

March 8, 1923- January 9, 2018 Peacefully at the Perth Hospital, in his 95th year, with all his family at his side. Beloved husband of 63 years to JoAnne, father of Stephen, Nancy, Richard (Wanda); grandfather of Coleman (Jenn) and Erika (Joe); great grandfather of Lyla Jo and…

Pickett, Micajah Erskine, III

Born in Indianola, Mississippi, January 9th, 1944 to Mary Francis (nee Wood) and Micajah Jr. Brother to Patricia (Spedler) and Annie. Micajah moved to Burlington, Ontario in 1961 where he met Carole Gardiner at Nelson High School. They were married in 1968 after graduating from…

Ompah diners welcome a special guest

Somehow, they fooled Leeanne White. She was going up to what she calls “the government lunch” in Ompah, the monthly Rural Frontenac Community Services Diners lunch at the newly renovated hall, and she said she “just happened to say to my friend that it was coming up on my…

Rampant vandalism on Bobs Lake.

Eleven cottages on Maple Lane, Meadow Lane, and Maple Grove Crescent were vandalised by perpetrators on an ATV last Friday night between sometime before 9pm and 11pm. Patio and garage doors were smashed by the ATV, and the vandals destroyed tv’s and mirrors, emptied fire…