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Empty Bowls celebrates 25 years at the Frontenac Heritage Festival

Empty Bowls, the quarter-century-old fundraiser that started up in Michigan as a grass roots organization, was founded with the goal of fighting hunger through the sale of hand-made pottery bowls. It has been uniting potters in communities all over the world since 1990. Begun by…

Agriculture minister tours Frontenac region farms

by Jonathan Davies The Minister of Agriculture, Jeff Leal, along with members of Frontenac and Kingston councils, took in presentations from a variety of agriculture ventures on a tour held January 29, which included Glenburnie's Sun Harvest Greenhouses and Inverary-area…

South Frontenac Council - Feb 3/15

Frontenac County at 3.45% increase and South Frontenac at 2% Frontenac County Council will contemplate a draft budget this week. Three days have been set aside for members of Frontenac County Council to go over the proposed 2015 County budget. The budget includes an increase of…

North Frontenac Council – February 2

Mayor sees a long shadow from Ardoch Lake development “These are precedent-setting decisions,” said Mayor Ron Higgins regarding how the township should move forward on a development proposal for Ardoch Lake. The Malcolm/Ardoch Lake Association (MALA) has requested that council…

Family Histories

by Marcella Neely Are you working on a family tree? Looking for help connecting relatives? Perhaps the Cloyne & District Historical Society can help. Genealogy can be interesting but sometimes not knowing where to start gets in the way. The Cloyne Pioneer Museum and Archives…

Stained Glass Workshops at MERA

Amazingly talented people live among us in Eastern Ontario. One of them is Steve Boyd, a stained glass artist – and fortunately for those who are interested in acquiring the skills involved, he will be teaching classes at the MERA Schoolhouse in McDonalds Corners starting on…

Addington Highlands Council - Feb. 2

Jamboree – Council wants to know how much is being requested Andy Anderson has been carrying on a campaign to save the Flinton Jamboree. The annual event was founded and run, until last year, by Donna and Duane Thibault in conjunction with the Flinton Recreation Committee. The…

Re: Sex-ed curriculum

How much do you love your children, your grand children? How much are you willing to do to protect them? The revised sex education curriculum being proposed by Kathleen Wynne & the Liberal majority provincial government is largely cloaked in darkness while the things we are…

The Groundhog

It was quite a morning! Harrowsmith will never be the same. The carnage, the hysterics, and eventually the demise of Harrowsmith Harvey, the once beloved groundhog. It all started at sunrise when Harvey was rudely awakened by an unruly crowd. He thought it was rude to wake him…

Re: Homes, heroes, heritage and more

There are so many kinda neat things in the Jan. 29 issue of "the News" that I wanted to comment. Item first: Sharbot Lake must have done something to get the Creator's attention, that He sent us such a professional visionary as Mr. A. Kovacs to rescue and revitalize the former…