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By: Lorraine Julien As you try to stay warm this month, just think of the animals and birds that somehow survive these freezing, icy winter blasts. It seems they have all adapted their own methods of survival. I used to wonder how tiny little birds like chickadees ever managed…
Re: assisted suicide debate I wish to respond to this past week's letter (Euthanasia, Jule Koch) and a few opinions of my own. I think that my biggest objection was to the writer's comment that "Every day thousands of people face death with courage and are given the highest care…
I had to write in to you after reading the letter (Euthanasia) sent last week by Jule Koch Brison. I have to say that my views on this are completely opposite. Anyone who has watched a loved one dying a slow and painful death can only be relieved to see that Canada has finally…
Your rant in last week's News (Editorial, The Groundhog) was inexcusable. To begin, groundhogs are clearly related to the ground (earth) but have no relationship to hogs. Properly called woodchucks, they are really marmots. Ours is Marmota monax rufescens. Evolutionarily…
I take great umbrage at the unbridled attack on the lowly groundhog that appeared in last week's Frontenac News Groundhog Editorial. At a time when the government of our country has abandoned the aim of any enhancement to the availability of jobs for an indigenous species of…
Family and Children’s Services or Frontenac, Lennox and Addington (formerly known as the Children's Aid Society) has announced this year’s winner of the annual Family Advocacy Award – Maribeth Scott, the Manager of the Ontario Early Years Centre at Northern Frontenac Community…
Students at Sydenham High school have come together to support fellow student, Sam Eastman, who was recently diagnosed with cancer. Sam, who is a grade 12 student at SHS, did not return from the Christmas holidays and when students began asking questions they recently found out…
Unlike a number of people being profiled for the Frontenac County 50 stories/150 years project, Gray Merriam does not have deep family roots in Frontenac County. He first came to Kennebec Lake, with his wife Aileen, because they were starting to look for a place to move to after…
On February 10 both the Sydenham High School's and the Frontenac Secondary School's senior boys' basketball teams went in undefeated into an exciting game that unfolded on the courts at Sydenham, where the Sydenham senior boys showed what it takes to remain undefeated. In what…
Under the leadership of J.P. Pendergast, operations officer with the Princess of Wales' Own Regiment in Kingston, 34 soldiers and cadets spent a cold weekend camping on the property of Jen Farnum and Marcus Saunders, located near Clarendon in Central Frontenac, learning the…
