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Oh, dear, here we go again. That old notion of a smaller municipal council is being trotted out once more in North Frontenac. Well, a five-member Council was a bad idea in 2013, and it’s a bad idea now. The new proposal is slightly different, but the arguments against it are…
Did I wish/hope to see a different electoral system than First Past The Post? You bet your socks I did! Am I disappointed that will not be the case for the next election, yes, very. The real question I should have asked and answered however, is, “Was I surprised at the seeming…
ln a short sighted decision, the South Frontenac (SF) Council approved the budget of 2017 and simultaneously undermined one of the major tenets of the SF Waste Management Bylaw 20050098: '... The Township of South Frontenac deems it desirable to collect revenues for waste…
So you didn’t get your Alternative Vote system. I agree, it would have helped to ensure Liberal victories. You would be in the middle between the ‘godless communists’ on the left and the ‘fascist capitalists’ on the right. But, to quote the Rolling Stones, “you don’t always get…
“Everything is falling into place” for the 11th annual Frontenac Heritage Festival this weekend, says organizer Janet Gutowski. It looks like even the weather will be cooperating with partly sunny skies and temperatures around 0 degrees forecast. “For the past two years, we’ve…
Johnathan Ferreira is lucky to be alive. Standing in his room in the burn unit at Sick Kids Hospital four days after he was engulfed in flames, the 15-year-old from Sydenham talks with a mature somberness about the accident on Feb. 8 that nearly took his life.Gone is the…
Despite freezing rain Saturday morning, a full house turned out in Ompah to discuss proposed changes to North Frontenac Township’s Official Plan. Many of those in attendance were from lake associations and there was one proposed change they were all glad to hear — larger minimum…
A rally of about 30 people of all ages was held on Wednesday, February 8 in front of the Limestone District School Board offices on Portsmouth Avenue in Kingston. It was a protest against the board’s proposal to close all the public schools in Stone Mills Township and the school…
Portland Community Church in Hartington is continuing its musical fundraising ways and 2017 began last Friday night with a concert featuring Bill White & Friends. “We’re having fundraisers to pay for the steel roof which was put on some time ago,” said fundraising chair Judy…
(Subsequent to the posting of the article beneath, Central Frontenac Council cut another $80,000 from the budget. The final budget levy to ratepayers is $7.45 million, an increase of 4.1% over 2016. Because total property assessment in the the township dropped by 0.8% last year,…
