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Apagadiwag Community Development Circle has a holiday gathering and calls for participants in a needs assessment

There were lots of smiling faces, full bellies and nimble fingers last Saturday at the Crow Lake School House for the Ardoch Algonquins holiday gathering. The event was co-sponsored by Apagadiwag Omamawi'ininiwag (Algonquin) Community development circle. This group is a cultural…

Nativities Displays celebrates 10 years at St. Patrick’s Church in Railton

On Saturday afternoon, Mary Murphy and her crew were busy as bees setting up nativities in the St. Patrick’s Church hall in Railton for Sunday’s Nativities Display. “This is our 10th year and it’s grown every year,” she said. “We have about 250 so far. “Many of them are little…

16th annual Festival of Trees, “more and more creativity”

This past weekend, Oso Hall was decorated in the Christmas spirit for the 16th Festival of Trees, Villages Beautiful’s annual fundraiser (which actually began in 2000 but one year was missed in favour of a dance). Not much has changed since the first one (except the number of…

North Frontenac to look at options for planning services

North Frontenac will be revisiting how it handles planning following a discussion at its regular meeting last Friday in Ompah. Currently, planning work (subdivisions, condominiums, severances, minor variances, etc) is handled by Frontenac County on behalf of the Township. But a…

Central’s capital budget looks at almost $288,000 increase in spending

Budget deliberations for Central Frontenac Township began in earnest Monday night at the Oso Fire Hall and although it was only the capital budget discussed (the operating budget, which tends to affect the tax levy more than the capital, is still to come), it could be an…

Hydro One helicopter crash claims Kyle Shorrok of Inverary

Kyle Shorrok was the youngest of the four crew members who died in a crash near Tweed last week, an event that Hydro One said is the most deadly accident in the history of the company. The crash took place on December 14th, which was his birthday. He turned 27 that day.…

Ontario Municipal Partnership fund targets fiscally challenged townships

When the Ontario Liberal government took power in 2003, one of the key issues for municipal governments was dealing with all of the downloaded costs that had been one of the features of municipal amalgamation under the previous Conservative administration under Mike Harris. The…

Trinity Verona’s choir brought their annual Christmas gift of song to the community last Friday evening. As always, the church was packed, with extra chairs at the back.

And as usual for this event, singers are added from neighbouring communities, as well as a children’s choir, and the flute trio, ‘Toute Ensemble’. The choir entered singing from the back of the church, led by Johnathan Davies’ clear, achingly beautiful solo at the beginning of…

2017, a year to be remembered — for me at least

It’s generally a good sign when you manage to last an entire year with any organization. This is particularly true in the news business. Last year at this time, I was just preparing to give notice at The Frontenac Gazette. It wasn’t any specific incident, just that things…

OPP Reports

Fatal Snowmobile Collision On December 16 at 12:10am officers from the Central Hastings Detachmentwere dispatched to a single snowmobile accident that occurred on Elzevir Road in the Municipality of Tweed. The driver was eastbound on Elzevir Road when it left the roadway and…