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Early spring is a great time to plant trees. With that in mind, you might consider planting a windbreak. Rows of trees and shrubs can shelter your house and garden from winter winds and summer sun. Early settlers knew the value of dense wind-busting evergreens planted north and…
We had another successful windup to the Snow Road Snowmobile Club breakfast season with three fundraisers for local charities. Each year the club dedicates three end-of-season breakfasts to support charities in both Lanark and Frontenac. This year, breakfast proceeds and…
Just five months into her tenure as Fairmount Home’s permanent Administrator, Lisa Hirvi received the inaugural Donna Rubin Administrator Leadership Program Award at the AdvantAge Ontario annual convention in Toronto on April 21. Hirvi received the award for earning top marks…
Peacefully at Moira Place on Tuesday April 18, 2017, in her 75th year, with her family by her side. Lorna Kaaren Prentice, beloved wife of the late William Duncan. Dear mother of Billie (Kelly), Michael (Toula) and Beth Sproule (Joe). Loving grandmother of Curtis (Kim),…
Peacefully at Perth Community Care Center, on Tuesday April 25, 2017 Willard Arthur Macpherson in his 74th year. Dear father of Arthur and daughter Judy and grandfather to Justin Young. Sadly missed by sister Joan. and many nieces and Predeceased by brother Wilmer and sister…
Sunday evening, April 23, 2017, peacefully in his sleep, we lost a kind and loving man, Lorne Charles Peake, age 91, following a difficult and painful year-long convalescence. Lorne was one of the six children born to the late Clayton Charles Peake and Helen Ruth, Lorne was the…
The Parents Council at Prince Charles Public School in Verona was looking for a slightly different way to acknowledge Earth Day. They found one. Last Saturday, the Council representatives asked area residents to bring them their e-waste (ie electronics no longer in working order…
After two days of testimony in the coroner’s inquest into the death of Robert (Bob) Srigley, who was shot by Ontario Provincial Police Officers (OPP) on July 25/2013 and died 3 days later at Kingston General Hospital, a picture has emerged. It is that of a severely troubled man…
The Frontenac Cattlemen Association welcomed their Stormont counterparts Saturday April 22 for a presentation by two local Cattle breeders, Dave Perry of Perry Maine-Anjou Farm, near Yarker, and DJ Cooke of Otter Creek Farm, which hosted the event. Lunch was provided by Kim…
“We’re building a toolkit to increase overnight stays in Frontenac County,” Paul Blais of MDB Insight told a special meeting of North Frontenac Council last week in Clar-Mill Hall. “To do that, we need to establish supply and demand — how do they mesh and where are the gaps?”…
