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Dreaming big – Godfrey girl hoping for 1,500 pound pumpkin next year

While most gardeners are satisfied if they grow at least one pumpkin big enough to make into a Jack O'Lantern for Halloween, Ashley Hickey is more ambitious . The 13-year-old farm girl, who lives in the Cole Lake area between Parham and Godfrey and attends St. Patrick's School…

Edward Nelson Badour – 1883-1917

As part of their Soldier of the Great War project, Family and Children's Services of Frontenac Lennox and Addington (FACSFLA) has put together a web page devoted to the memory of Edward Nelson Badour. Badour died on November 17, 1917 after being wounded and captured by German…

McKinven's show about “Plane People'” plays in Verona

Trevor McKinven, who hails from North Hatley, Quebec, admits that one of the reasons he has been putting on his one-man show titled “They Came From Away”, for the last four years is because he is “a bit crazy”. “You definitely have to be a wee bit crazy to do this kind of thing…

Trick or Eat a Big Success!

On October 31, students from North Addington Education Centre canvassed the community in their costumes; not for candy or treats, but for non-perishable food items. Students and adults were stationed in each community: Flinton, Northbrook, and Cloyne. The response received was…

Sydenham's Haunted Barn attracts hundreds of brave souls

For those looking for a real fright on Halloween night, Sydenham was one place to be. For the last five years, members of the McNeill family, along with the help of numerous relatives and friends, have been scaring the wits out of Halloween revelers in an old barn located just…

Hotel Creepy

The worst part of the claustrophobic, dark, scream filled, zombified trip through the transformed motel rooms at the Sharbot Lake Country Inn on the evenings of Octoerb 30 and 31st was the fact that every one looked so familiar. It's one thing being scared by a bunch of…

Addington Highlands Council – Nov 2/15

Commercial fee holiday nixed by province For 11 years, building permit fees have been waived for commercial construction in Addington Highlands. The idea was to encourage commercial enterprises to locate in the township, and the permit holiday was advertised on the township…

North Frontenac Council - Oct 30/15

NFCS Requests Continued Support Louise Moody, the executive director of Northern Frontenac Community Services (NFCS), and Maribeth Scott, the Child Centre program manager, made a presentation to Council on Friday regarding the services that NFCS provides in North Frontenac. They…

Community organizes to welcome refugees

In the past few months, Canadians have been drawn into the gravity of the global refugee crisis through images and stories of tragedy and hardship, and reports of countries in Europe sealing their borders outright to the thousands fleeing war-plagued parts of Africa and the…

Promoting accessibility awareness in Frontenac County

2015 accessibility award deadline extended to November 13 In an effort to raise awareness about the current standards and regulations regarding accessibility in the local municipalities in the County of Frontenac, Jannette Amini, manager of legislative services, and clerk at the…