CENTRAL FRONTENAC

Central Frontenac Council rejected a staff report recommending the septic re-inspection program be deferred for 2022, sending it back to the septic re-inspection implementation committee (Mayor Frances Smith, Coun. Tom Dewey and Coun. Bill...

Clarendon Station’s Dave Dawson is “coming up on 89” but although he may not be moving quite as fast as he once did, his artistic output hasn’t slowed down in the slightest. He’s completed 10 books (The Girls with the Raven Black Hair...

The changes keep coming for North Frontenac Little Threatre, but the troop carries on. Even before being forced to put a stop to live theatre productions in the spring of 2020 because of COVID restrictions, North Frontenac Little Theatre (NFLT) was...

For $25 you can send some much-needed love and care to a local senior this Christmas! Each adopted grandparent will be gifted a nourishing foot cream, cozy pair of socks and Christmas card to warm their heart and soles this holiday season!   All...

Chilling and fearsome kids in the one and only Land of the Lost Souls! As you walk into this scary performance, you find yourself walking up a rocky hill. As you reach the top, a witch starts to tell you about the stories of the forest but is soon...

“I’ve driven by and it’s great to see all those folks there,” Mayor Frances Smith told a delegation of pickleball enthusiasts at the regular (online) meeting of Central Frontenac Council Oct. 26. “I do have my equipment and now I just need...

Officers of the South Frontenac and Sharbot Lake Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) would like to remind the Public that since the Fall season is now upon us this means that hunting season has also arrived. There will be many hunters travelling the...

Bill Bowick wants to plant some trees, in Sharbot Lake, down at the beach. Bowick appeared as a delegation to the Oct. 12 Central Frontenac Council (online) meeting to pitch his proposal, which he calls “A Greening of the Park.” He said part of...

Dieppe Blue Beach Every Man Remembered On August 19th, 1942 a combined operations force made up primarily of soldiers from the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division, landed on the beaches of Dieppe; also known as Operation Jubilee. The operation would be a...

One of the iconic business properties, the restaurant overlooking Sharbot Lake beach, is undergoing another change. It used to be Nickles, a convenience store with a lunch and baking counter. Then Giselle Beaupre did an extensive renovation and...

The Sept. 28 (electronic) meeting of Central Frontenac Council would have been a very short affair, were it not for Councillor Tom Dewey’s notice of motion to consider a reduction in Council size for the next election. Not the least of the...

In 2020, Jim Brown and his wife Nancy, as well as their son Steve and his wife Astrid, were unable to travel to Canada. That meant missing their annual two week visit to Camp's Bay Cottages on Big Gull Lake, a family tradition that goes back to the...

The Sharbot Lake Pickleball Association started out as an idea less than a year ago. Sandy Robertson took a look at the derelict tennis court at the former Sharbot Lake Public School site, which was heaving with cracks, and had Manitoba Maple vines...

Quinte Conservation will be conducting the annual fall dam draw down in the Moira and Napanee regions on, or after, Tuesday, October 12, 2021. Shoreline residents can expect changing water levels above and below the following structures: Moira...

Former councillor Phillip Smith has accepted Central Frontenac Council’s offer to replace Coun. Ewin Burke, who passed away at age 71 on Aug. 4 of this year. Smith will represent District 2 (Olden). He has been elected in the past as a councillor...

Sean Binkley is a mortgage broker from Kingston, and an amateur pilot. In 2019, with a couple of his friends, he bought the former Baker property on the north shore of Kennebec Lake. The property includes a cottage and a large cabin, and it also has...

Sandra Pennycuick, who was Sandra Barker before she married, was born in 1949 in her grand-parents house in Mountain Grove, just three doors down from the Pioneer Memorial that was put up in 1934 to celebrate 86 family names that were associated...

The Eurasian milfoil has taken root in Sharbot Lake, and it isn’t about to leave. “It is a chronic issue on Sharbot Lake,” said Linda Cronin, President of the Sharbot Lake Property Owner’s Association. “We can’t get rid of it, but we can...

A new plaque at Meisel Woods Conservation Area pays homage to one of the park’s most earnest caretakers: Joe Slater. Joe and his wife Sandi moved to the village of Crow Lake around 1999 to enjoy a quiet retirement outside the big city. They...

Central Frontenac Council held an online Special Council meeting Monday to adopt several ‘amendments’ to its 2021 Official Plan that had been approved to its 2008 Official Plan but inadvertently been left off the new plan. “Cathy (CAO/Clerk...

It’s the third weekend in August. For more than 125 years, that’s meant Parham Fair time. But the pandemic has changed things a tad, at least in the short term. Last year’s Fair, the 128th, was held virtually. Although the Fair Board was...

Holding an in-person event, even a small one, to mark the start of a month-long celebration of the 45th Anniversary of Community Living-North Frontenac (CLNF), is a novelty these days. About 20 people gathered, at a distance, in the parking lot...

Central Frontenac Council passed a bylaw to lower the speed limit to 60 kph from 80 kph on a portion of Road 38 at its regular (online) meeting Tuesday. The reduction affects Road 38 from Goodfellow Road to the southerly entrance of Godfrey Road and...

Honey the donkey, as well as HeyHey and Bitsy the chicken were on hand, eager to receive both pets and treats. Lynn Cronk, along with daughter Jessie, brought Honey the donkey and Baker the dog, and Haley Rose of Treegap Farm brought chickens HeyHey...

Last week was peak summer in Frontenac County. The summer cottage season is in high gear, and tourists were filling up the parks and trails. Still, a keen observer may have noticed some shiny new 2022 Nissan Pathfinders rolling the winding paved and...

Danka Brewer, Kokum Makwa) has thrown her hat into the ring to become Algonquin Negotiation Representative (ANR)/Chief for the Shabot Obaajiwan First Nation. “If you hold one position, you hold the other,” she said Saturday while holding a...

When Joel Howes went to Sharbot Lake High School, there were not that many sports to compete. “It was soccer, basketball and volleyball, and I competed in all of them,” he recalls. His height was an advantage in both basketball and volleyball,...

Central Frontenac Council adopted its new Official Plan (OP) at its regular (online) meeting July 13. “It’s been a long time coming but it’s a good document and will take us where we need to go in the future,” said Mayor Frances Smith. A...

(with files from Jeff Green - this is an updated version of an article that will appear in the July 15 print edition) Central Frontenac Council is seeking a $214,000 federal grant to finance most of the construction costs for a multi-use Trailhead...

Central Frontenac Council passed a resolution to sign a memorandum of understanding to upgrade and maintain the 30 kilometres of east-west trail through the Township at its regular (online) meeting last Tuesday. Central Frontenac Township owns those...

It won't be as barren a camp season as last year, at RKY Camp, located on Eagle Lake near Parham, but it won't be a normal RKY season either. "Provincial green lights and Ministry of Health guidance came after our preparation window had passed for...

Central Frontenac Council is aware of the growing numbers of short-term cottage rentals (STR) popping up on area lakes but Mayor Frances Smith said there isn’t any quick solution at Council’s regular (online) meeting Tuesday. “(Anything we...

The steady stream of people at the local liquor and convenience stores, stocking up for endless weeks at home during the lingering COVID lockdowns, show that beer, wine and spirits have been selling well. Ontario Craft Breweries have a variety of...

Township Burn Permit By-law On October 6, 2020 Fire Chief Knott had proposed a new by-law to regulate open air burning within the township. This included the introduction of a permit system which would make it possible to quickly notify people of...

Catherine (Cassie) Douglas was on a horse that she was training at Circle Square Ranch, the camp that her parents manage on Big Clear Lake, near Arden, when she got the email. “I kind of screamed a bit. I had to calm the horse down right after,”...

Parishioner’s memorial back up at St. James Catholic Church in Sharbot Lake Pam Giroux, a parishioner at St. James Catholic Church in Sharbot Lake, has re-installed a memorial to the 215 children whose unmarked grave was recently unearthed at a...

Three weeks ago, in the wake of a COVID-19 outbreak at a construction site, that was causing the largest number of cases in the region over the entire pandemic, Dr. Kieran Moore, the soon to be former Medical Officer of Health for the region, was...

Greg Tilson is a musician and writer who is part of the Gertrudes, a folk collective based in Kingston. He has a family cottage near Mississippi Station and drives through Parham several times a summer to get there. When the Parham Fire took place...

Central Frontenac Council finished all the business on its agenda in less than an hour (59 minutes) at its regular (online) meeting Tuesday. There really wasn’t anything terribly controversial to be discussed but perhaps one item could have...

I met Rosemarie Bowick sometime after she and her husband Bill decided to 'retire' to Sharbot Lake in the late 1990s. I always thought of them as co-conspirators. Even though they would take on their own projects, the other one would be, happily or...

2020 was a year like no other, but Rideau Valley Conservation Authority (RVCA) staff and conservation partners worked diligently to serve the watershed while keeping everyone safe during the global pandemic. “We are very proud of how quickly and...

While there are many good options for bedding plants locally and at garden centres in nearby cities, Unusual Acres bedding plants are produced using some of the soil and plant techniques that Sarah and Pete have been exploring for several years....

Bob Harvey has had a varied career. He has bought and sold property, ginseng, furs, just to name a few of his ventures, along with sitting on municipal council for many years. He had done all of this while cutting hair in the small barber shop that...

The Honourable Maryam Monsef has a long title; she is the Federal Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Rural Economic Development. As part of a campaign to promote the recent budget, Minister Monsef conducted a series of interviews with rural...

Cathy Fox retires after 40 year nursing career, 30 of them serving her own community Cathy Fox was very young when she graduated from a one year nursing program at St. Lawrence College in 1981 and began working at Hotel Dieu hospital. She went back...

With an earlier than normal thaw this year, turtles have been on the move since early April. Although Ontario’s turtles spend most of their time in the water, both males and females travel on land in the spring, summer, and fall. All turtle...

Central Frontenac Township had an unqualified (“clean”) audit opinion for 2020, Anne Wojciechowski and Cara Chesney of MNP LLP told Central Frontenac Council at its regular (online meeting) Tuesday. “There were no difficulties encountered...

For years, the derelict tennis and basketball courts at the former Sharbot Lake Public School have been languishing. But now, weeks after a volunteer group began work on them, they are neat and tidy and ready for an upgrade. As soon as this weekend,...

Communities in South Frontenac know all about pickleball fever. People that take up the sport seem to be adept at organising and building facilities, and/or encouraging townships to get on board. Sandy Robertson of Sharbot Lake started asking people...

Prioritising vaccine for hotspots in the GTA is appropriate. At the tail end of a press briefing late last week, just before new province-wide restrictions were announced, KFL&A Medical Officer of health Kieran Moore said that he expects to see a...