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For its 10th year, the Central Frontenac Relay For Life committee (Vicki Babcock, Christine Teal, Penny Cota, Margo McCullough and Liz Norton along with GREC students Sadie Clarke and Samantha Sproule) opted for an indoor venue at St. James Major in Sharbot Lake. Previous…
The Frontenac News is happy to announce that our new website, frontenac-live.ca, a companion site to our popular frontenacnews.ca site, is up and running. Frontenac Live includes a business directory listing over 450 businesses and counting, to cover every need a resident or…
Penny Harper is fighting a war she will never win. The mother of a child with a rare genetic disorder, Penny knows her daughter will never live a normal life. The most she can hope for is to manage the behaviour that accompanies the affliction. It is a battle she fights every…
It’s a quiet evening with a few clouds in the sky and annoying clouds of blackflies when the breeze fades every few moments or so. And then . . . “Jupiter!” shouts amateur astronomer Guy Nason, pointing to the southern sky. As if by magic, the clouds part, the bugs are gone and…
Mike Mckenzie of Seed to Sausage took a risk when he decided to move the popular Day of the Pig event to the Sharbot Lake beach. The event started back in 2012 as a party at the site of the Seed to Sausage factory and retail store on the May long weekend. Chefs from Ottawa and…
Chief Rick Cheseborough personifies the South Frontenac Fire department. Whenever and wherever the department is called out on a major call in the vast expanse of the township, he is there to support the firefighters. Not many people in South Frontenac were aware, however, about…
The Sharbot Lake Farmers Market returned to the beach in Sharbot Lake last Saturday and despite some at times threatening weather, enjoyed one of its better openings ever. “I think this was my best opening day and probably one of my best ever days,” said long-time market veteran…
The new Railway Heritage Walkway in Sharbot Lake is a series of twelve informative signs at historic spots along the former trackbed through the village, from the site of the old Road 38 railway overpass, to the "Wye" south of the causeway (where trains could do a three-point…
Shawn Merriman, the new Chief Building Official (CBO), offered his opinion on how Council should proceed with penalizing North Frontenac residents who constructed a yurt in the Township without the proper permits in place. “This case should still proceed,” Merriman said. “Yurts…
There is a debate raging in the pages of Canada’s major old school media outlets, the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, CBC, etc., all Toronto based bastions of the written word. The rest of the world is preoccupied with other matters: melting ice caps, bombings in England, and the…
