CENTRAL FRONTENAC

The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) East Region Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU) began an investigation in late 2025 into drug trafficking in the area. On Monday, March 30, 2026, officers from the CSCU, assisted by the OPP Emergency Response Team...

Bill MacDonald has had a long political career. He has won and lost elections at the municipal and provincial level over a four-decade period. He has been a mayor, a county warden, and a councillor over that time. He was defeated in a Central...

It all started because Jen Andrews got into fitness about a dozen years ago. She had been working, along with her husband Kyle, on their home-based house cleaning business, Hubby's House, while raising their daughter August Skye. She found getting...

At the very start of the Central Frontenac regular council meeting last Tuesday (March 10) Councillor Duncan McGregor announced that he was resigning his position on council, effective immediately. McGregor said that he is moving to a new house his...

The Sharbot Lake Lions Club collects empty beer, wine, and liquor bottles and cans, and this initiative has become one of the club’s largest fundraising efforts. Since its inception in May 2013, your generous donations have totalled $73,342.26,...

After months of winter, March feels different. The days are noticeably longer. Roads are more reliable. There’s a shift in energy—both in people and in the local labour market. For adults in Frontenac County who have been waiting out winter or...

After an hour-long barrage of comments from residents at a public meeting, Central Frontenac Council decided unanimously not to hold any referenda this fall, as part of the municipal election process. Councillor Duncan McGregor, with support from...

Curbside pickup and Septic Reinspection (Editors Note - Subsequent to this article being completed on Tuesday, February 17, the Mayor and Council have decided to hold a public meeting on Friday, February 27, and also consider a bylaw to hold 2...

For parents, February can be a worrying month. The excitement of the holidays is long gone. School routines feel heavy. Winter drags on. And for teens and young adults who are looking for work—or trying to figure out what comes next—motivation...

Central Frontenac Council met for almost three hours last week with 2B consulting to talk about the Sharbot Lake Public School site. Lindsay Blair was the point person for 2B at the meeting. 2B is familiar with Frontenac County, as they have been...

Enough stone to spread across a dance floor now covers the ice on the westerly side of a small island on Lake Kennebec, near Arden. It is ten tonnes of washed river stone to be exact, a perfect nursery for millions of walleye eggs that will produce...

Saturday Feb 14th marks the 7th annual Empty Bowls fundraiser in at the Kennebec Hall in Arden. Empty Bowls is truly a community effort—from handcrafted bowls donated by local potters, to delicious soups, stews, and baked goods made by local...

February Fatigue: How to Keep Going When the Job Search Feels Bleak If January is about fresh starts, February can feel like the opposite. The holidays are long over. Winter feels endless. Snow days disrupt plans, roads are unpredictable, and...

fter attending a couple of meetings via Zoom because of a broken ankle, Mayor Frances Smith was back in her familiar seat at the front of the room to chair a meeting of Central Frontenac Council last week. Michela Gossage addressed Council as a...

ust over a year ago, the future of the Central Frontenac Heritage Festival was in doubt. Since it was established as the Frontenac Heritage Festival 20 years ago, the festival has always been based on a decentralised model. Groups in different...

When most people hear the word “literacy,” they think of reading and writing. But literacy is much more than that. It’s also about speaking, listening and understanding—the everyday conversations that shape how we communicate and connect...

Since the lates 70s, low-income families have received assistance at Christmas. For several years the Salvation Army Kingston provided food hampers and toys. The number of hampers increased each year and in the mid 2000s Salvation Army Kingston...

The Central Frontenac Railway Heritage Society stepped forward this year to organise the annual Polar Bear Plunge, which started up in 2011 as a part of the annual Frontenac Heritage Festival in 2011. This year, the Heritage Society offered to...

In a sentencing decision on December 4th, Justice Mew of the Superior Court of Justice, Kingston, sentenced John Ehrhardt, to one year imprisonment on the charge of theft by a person holding a power of attorney, and to a concurrent one-year term on...

Let it Shimmer and Shine. . . was the theme for this year’, 25th annual Festival of Trees. The anniversary was celebrated at an opening night gala, catered by Tim and Penny Cota of Cota Catering, and featuring Kick and Push Brewery and local...

Deputy Mayor Appointment Cindy Kelsey, Councillor from Kennebec (Ward 1) was nominated and appointed as Deputy Mayor for the next 11 months, until the end of this current council term, which extends past the October 26 election until the inaugural...

Michela Gossage lives in the vicinity of the location of a proposed biofuel generation plant. The plant proponent, Originative Energy Solutions, has received the go-ahead from Central Frontenac to submit a bid to Ontario’s Independent Energy...

Central Frontenac will have a new mayor after the municipal election in October of next year. Mayor Frances Smith, who has held the position since 2014, used the occasion of delivering her mayor’s remarks at the beginning of a regular meeting of...

Jane Anderson, a resident of Crow Lake, appeared before Council to talk about a specific issue with her property, in addition to other issues with Crow Lake Road through the village. Her first is drainage from behind her home, which runs through...

Fen Valley Farm on Tryon Rd is introducing a farm stand for fall 2025 and beyond. For those unfamiliar with the farm there has been the option for farm pick up along with pick up in Sharbot Lake and Perth Farmers Markets for a number of years....

The stress of moving can be overwhelming as you plan every detail. Movers, packing materials, and the logistics of years of nesting that must then be carefully wrapped up and prepared for the next phase of lifeDuring my search for used boxes and...

A major win for walleye conservation has landed the most prestigious award ever for Watersheds Canada, the 23-year-old national conservation charity that fosters community-wide involvement in logistically, and often physically, challenging habitat...

Margo McCullough was the first winner of a new award that will be presented annually by Rural Frontenac Community Services (RFCS). The award was presented in October to commemorate the 50th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the corporation. For...

The icy weather on Saturday night didn’t stop the show-goers for the North Frontenac Little Theatre’s production of Rocky Horror Picture Show at Soldiers Memorial Hall in Sharbot Lake. Every seat was filled, party hats were on. After all, as The...

The agenda was light and the open meeting was short, for members of Central Frontenac Council on November 11, but a proposal aimed at facilitating a township-wide referendum on whether to establish a garbage pickup system, picked up some momentum....

(Reid Parkhill runs Fen Valley Farms, located in the hills of Central Frontenac. Fen Valley grows food without the use of pesticides, herbicides or synthetic fertilizers, participating in the Sharbot Lake and Perth Markets and has an online store at...

Cathy Goodfellow has had a long, successful career in education. She started out as an Educational Assistant (EA) at Hinchinbrooke School in Parham 35 years ago, and worked on developing her skills as an educator, eventually working in other...

Steve Newstead appeared before Central Frontenac Council on behalf of the Central Frontenac Lions Club, which makes use of the Oso/Soldiers Memorial Hall for popular monthly breakfasts. He talked about the value of the hall to the Lions, and to...

Gordon Dean is one unhappy grocer. He runs a small grocery store chain, Mike Deans Local Grocer, that was started by his father. He has stores in Chesterville, Bourget and Sharbot Lake, as well as two in west Quebec. The grocery business is a high...

In honour of it’s 50th anniversary, NFLT is presenting “The Rocky Horror Experience” on the evenings of Friday November 14th and Saturday November 15th at 8 PM Oso Hall in Sharbot Lake. It is unlike any production they have ever launched. It...

Yves Sancennes is a big fan of the Sharbot Lake Retirement Residence. The Snow Road resident encouraged his 91 year old mother-in-law, Muguette Ménard, to move to Sharbot Lake Retirement Residence (SLRR) from Sudbury, because she needed care, and...

The much loved Festival of Trees returns to Central Frontenac this year for its 25th anniversary, celebrating with the sparkling theme: “Let It Shimmer and Shine”. The festival is a cherished tradition that marks the unofficial start of the...

In response to a request from Originative Energy Solutions Partners, Council passed a resolution saying that it “supports Originative Energy Solutions Partners in submitting a proposal for the Long-Term Capacity Services Project located at 7349...

: One of the earlier logos for Ontario’s first rural multi-service hub, now known as Rural Frontenac Community Services, was a tree with deep foundational roots depicting the organizational vision: “We believe in strong communities”. Like that...

In Ontario, the Independent Energy System Operator (IESO) is responsible for bringing sufficient power generation online, in order to satisfy the growing demand for electricity in the province, over time. One of the ways they do this is by using a...

(When Marg Axford died last month, she left a legacy of community achievement, including the development of Land O’Lakes Community Services, the Cloyne and District Historical Society, and Pine Meadow Nursing Home. She also left a legacy as a...

Connections Adult Learning has been seeking a new location for its Sharbot Lake headquarters for a number of years, hoping to find an opportunity to have more visibility in the core of the hamlet. When Executive Director Tracy Riddell learned that...

Marcie Webster, Chief Doreen Davis, Connie Deroneth and Jacqui Salmond of the Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nation Council and Staff were at Sharbot Lake beach on Tuesday (September 30) to mark National Truth and Reconciliation Day. They were selling...

Hinchinbrooke Site Community Proposal Tracey Hole and Aleris Cronk appeared as a delegation to the September 23 regular meeting of Central Frontenac Council, on behalf of the District 4 Recreation Committee. They were there to propose that the...

A rumour started circulating a few weeks ago that Community-Living North Frontenac, (CLNF) which moved its office to the former St. Lawrence College Employment Centre office on Garrett Street in Sharbot Lake, was going to buy the vacated Central...

To mark the beginning of Truth and Reconciliation Week in Canada, Chief Doreen Davis of the Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nation, and Central Frontenac Mayor Frances Smith, gathered with members and staff from the Shabot Obaadjiwan, and Central Frontenac...

The vendors of the first year of the monthly Sharbot Lake Sunday rink markets are proud and happy to be able to give back to the community that supported them. Over the summer they tried to support the community by offering free non-paid spaces to...

Councillor Duncan McGregor proposed a motion to “Direct staff to prepare a report to the October 28 meeting outlining potential benefits/concerns with changing Elizabeth Street to a one-way street.” In support of the motion, McGregor said, “we...