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Ex Parham Fair Treasurer Charged With Theft After over $18,000 Goes Missing

In a bizarre turn of events that is eerily similar to a case involving Bonnie Palmer, the treasurer of the Maberly Fair back in 2018, Courtney Pare of Verona has been charged with “Theft over $5,000” for allegedly stealing money from the Parham Agricultural Society, which…

Sydenham Students Host All-Candidates Meeting

In an exercise in civic engagement, students at Sydenham Highschool hosted an all-candidates townhall for the prospective MPP candidates for Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston in their cafeteria on Thursday, February 20, 2025 - one week before Ontario’s snap election is to occur. The…

Open Farms To Return To a One Weekend in 2025

In a report to Frontenac County Council last week about the outcomes of the 2024 version of Open Farms, Community Development Officer Debbi Miller revealed plans for a major change in 2025. Open Farms had morphed into harvest season long event, Open Farm Days, which ran from…

Lotus Wight sings Leon Redbone at Belong in Sharbot Lake

It's not really about the flag

I understand why a lot of people get angry when they see american flags flying in canadian public space these days, Not only is the President of the United States threatening to levy tariffs on all canadian imports, based on ever shifting pack of lies and misconstrued facts, but…

Very Interesting Times Indeed

The oft-quoted saying “may you live in interesting times”, is commonly mistaken as a Chinese proverb, whereas research has shown that it is actually attributed to a 19thC British politician, Joseph Chamberlain. His full statement was “I think that you will all agree that we are…

Activity Bags For Kids With Cancer

Members from Lions Clubs from across the region gathered in the utility room at the Storrington Lions Hall last Thursday (February 20) to put together activity bags that will be presented to young, and older children who are undergoing cancer treatment at the Cancer Care Centre,…

The Maberly Quarterly And The Guatemala Stove Project

The last time the Maberly Quarterly Square and Contra Dance was scheduled to take place was almost five years ago, on March 14th, 2020. Right until the last minute, organisers were planning to go ahead with that dance. Then, on the Friday the 13th, the day be fore the dance, the…

Voting Strategy

I rarely vote Liberal. Twice in my life, so far. Living in a rural Eastern Ontario riding that almost always goes Tory, I've had the freedom to vote with my conscience. This time however, I've a glimmer of hope that voting strategically may be the best bet for cutting down Doug…

Re: American Flag

I have to agree with GlenysBender (Letters, Feb. 20/25) - take the damn US flag down NOW! I've had this on my mind and so glad Glenys wrote in! I hope you get lots of support letters asking that it be removed. Maybe we can burn it in a ceremony on the beach. - Janina Fisher