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It has certainly been a long haul for Andrew Kovacs, but the results are pretty spectacular. When he purchased the former Shabot Lake Senior’s Home in November of 2014 it was a building in need of some major improvements. It had served the community well for over 20 years, but…
Council worked through their 2017 budget on Thursday last week and ended up with a 2.39% increase in dollars to be raised through taxation, or $134,331. Major increases were seen in the creation of a winter road maintenance reserve fund for $50,000, the rising OPP policing costs…
The Frontenac News is developing an online business directory as a key piece of a new website we are launching on April 1st, our favourite day of the year. Frontenac-Live.ca will be a companion site to our popular Frontenacnews.ca site. It is oriented to providing information to…
Stephen Goodberry aka Elvis - aka Neil Diamond - aka Roy Orbison entertained a full crowd at the snowmobile clubhouse. The event was hosted by the Snow Road Community Centre and drew fans from as far away as Oshawa. Stephen was accompanied by his talented wife Debra and together…
A number of well-meaning and reasonable letters have come in to the paper over the last few months about the decision South Frontenac Council made to change the way they charge residents for waste management. Instead of charging $125 per household as had been the practice, the…
What’s up there indeed? In this column, I’m going to talk about, um… nothing. Did that catch your attention? There are vast spaces between the stars and galaxies that appear to be completely empty, seemingly filled with nothing! Even our Solar system looks to be mostly empty…
Theft of tire and rims worth $7,600 On January 25th, 2017 at 3 p.m. an officer with the Kaladar detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a theft of tires and rims from the FORD dealership on Highway 7 in Kaladar. The tires and rims were removed from the bed…
A coalition of waterfront residents have had their day in front of the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) delayed. The group is appealing a change to South Frontenac Township’s Official Plan that they say will unfairly limit their ability to improve their properties. Last summer, at…
“If a Legion Branch had to pay for all the volunteer hours its members spent, no branch could exist,” keynote speaker G1 Zone Commander Terry Shelley told Royal Canadian Legion Branch 334 members and guests at its annual Honours & Awards Dinner in Arden last Saturday night. “And…
The Empty Bowls started off in 1990 as a small project by a group of potters working with some chefs in a town in Michigan to give away bowls of soup and allow people to keep the bowls. All that was requested was a donation to a local food based charity. Twenty seven years later…
