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Sizeable crowd turns out to give opinions on K & P Trail through Verona

The Frontenac County Economic Development wants to know how residents feel about allowing motorized off-road vehicles to access the K & P Trail at the planned Bellrock Road Trailhead among other things and as such held an Open House information gathering session Monday night at…

Mich Cota releases an album in her native Algonquin language

Mich Cota is a two-spirit Algonquin woman living in Montreal but her roots run deep in this area. Two-Spirit comes from an Ojibwe phrase niizh manidoowag and has become an umbrella term for many Indigenous people across Turtle Island to verbalize fluid sexual orientations and…

Saint Paul’s Contributes to LPS Playground

LPS students Owen and Emily Desjardin and Grace Silver, all from the congregation of St Paul’s Anglican Church Sydenham, present a playground enhancement cheque for $1,300 to Lisa Welder, parent council treasurer and Jeff Peck, fundraising chair. This summer, the Limestone Board…

LOLPS students visit Sherlock’s Escapes

Last Wednesday, students in Barry Harding’s grade 6-8 class made the trek down to Kingston to be the first class in the Limestone District to problem solve their way out of four Victorian style rooms. The goal of an escape adventure is to work as a team to find clues, answer…

Local budget jumps by 3.16%, but impact on ratepayers is mitigated by new assessment

Lovers of ferocious budget debates are likely to be disappointed by South Frontenac’s 2018 budget process. Although MPAC numbers came in lower than expected — to the tune of needing to cut $44,500 in order to maintain the tax increase Council had mandated, CAO Wayne Orr and…

Council trims 2018 draft county budget, just a hair

If 2018 Frontenac County budget were a head of hair, and county council a barber, no one would notice the haircut that was administered last week. The draft budget set the requisition to the Frontenac Townships at $9.775 million and after a snip of $12,400 dollars the final…

Hillier sent packing from house after calling Liberal government behavior "criminal"

When the Speaker of the whose asked him to withdrw his accusation,, Hillier said that he would “apologise for having to use that language to describe what the government is doing, but I am not going to withdraw it”. With that he was asked to leave the house for the day. When…

South Frontenac approves 12-unit seniors housing project in principle, but where still up in the air

At a special committee of the whole meeting Monday afternoon in Sydenham, South Frontenac Council committed in principle to some form of near-future project for seniors housing. Just exactly what that project will look like other than 12 units with a price tag of around $1…

Denbigh ambulance service survives the latest challenge

It seems that every time Lennox and Addington County Council considers making changes or upgrades to its ambulance service, the question of whether to keep the Denbigh service up and running comes up. It happened again last week, at a meeting of Council on November 15. Council…

Vision Soup fundraiser once again packs Grace Centre in Sydenham

You know Christmas is coming when you can smell a variety of flavours coming out of the Grace Centre in Sydenham on a Saturday afternoon in late November. And this year is no exception as Leslie Reade and Josey Steel once again organized Vision Soup, a community fundraiser which…