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The sound of music is back in Arden for the first time in more than three years. For the past month a group of singers including some former Glee Club members, has been getting together on Tuesday afternoons at Kennebec Hall to bring music back to...
Central Frontenac Council gave its approval in principle to a project in which the Township would purchase the former St. James Anglican Church property for a cost of $2 and undertake associated costs of insuring the property in the future,...
Sharbot Lake, ON – On Wednesday, Rural Frontenac Community Services celebrated the $46,200 Capital fund grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation to replace the roof at the Child Centre. Originally built in 1990, the roof was badly in need of...
The 3rd Annual Fun Sharbot Lake Pickleball Tournament in Sharbot Lake was a great success. There were 48 participants and about 20 spectators . Pickleball draws locals and seasonal visitors alike. This fun and very social sport is growing very...
When Betty-Anne and her husband Ian decided it was time to retire, they had no idea they would end up in Clarendon Station. They moved here in 2007, without any connections or knowledge of the area, but it didn’t take long for them to settle in...
Royal Canadian Legion Branch 425 in Sharbot Lake needs your help! We have been having Friday night dinners as a fund raiser for our Legion for a number of years. Folks are getting older and getting tired. We have a membership of close to 100 members...
Kingston Frontenac Lennox and Addington Public Health (KFLAPH) will be closing the Sharbot Lake branch office on October 27. “The closure of the Sharbot Lake branch office is a result of a comprehensive assessment and careful consideration of...
Sandy Pennycuick (nee Barker) has always been fascinated by the pioneer plaque in Mountain Grove, where she was raised. The plaque was put up, on a cairn near the corner of Mill Street and Mountain Grove Road, in 1934, to mark the 80th anniversary...
Under the direction of Mr. Giller, Mr. MacPherson and other staff members “Coffee House” became a way for staff and students to share their musical talents. Student and staff enjoyed the fun and learning experience of making music with other...
The quaint town of Arden is abuzz with excitement as it celebrates the opening of its two new pickleball courts on the new Arden ice pad. Arden's community leaders recognized the need for upgraded recreational facilities, prompting the...
Since retiring and making Bob’s Lake his permanent home, Pat Grace has focused his attention to turtle conservation. Every summer, Pat waits for turtles to come ashore and lay their eggs. Knowing that nests are most vulnerable in the first few...
Central Frontenac Township is about to move into the next phase (public consultation) regarding the redevelopment of the former Sharbot Lake Public School site. “We can’t proceed until Council is sure what the citizens would like in terms of...
Marcel Giroux A couple of months ago, Marcel came into the Frontenac News office to get some photocopies. He was putting some materials together from his past, and needed to copy some photos. The photos that he was copying included a shot of an...
COVID took a toll on the restaurants in Sharbot Lake. The Maples Restaurant, at Sharbot Lake beach, remained open throughout the pandemic for take out, augmenting its existing take-out pizza business with other dishes. The restaurant owners, Phil...
In 1979 North Frontenac Little Theatre was formed and the first play “Alice in Wonderland” was performed on the stage at SLHS. Staff and students took part in many of the plays, including Music Man, Anne of Green Gables, Diary of Anne Frank. In...
The Parham Fair buildings need more than sprucing up – and volunteers have stepped in. When an Agricultural Fair reaches its 130s, the grounds need some attention from time to time. The Parham Fair, which is overseen by the not-for-profit Parham...
On Tuesday July 11, 2023, members of Frontenac Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) along with members of the OPP's Highway Safety Division, Kingston Police's Traffic Unit and Commercial Vehicle Inspectors with the Ministry of Transportation (MTO)...
On Wednesday July 5, 2023 at about 4:30 p.m. members of Frontenac Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) along with Central Frontenac Fire Rescue responded to a marine incident on Big Clear Lake in Central Frontenac Township. Reports indicated that an...
Central Frontenac may be joining the ranks of those municipalities who charge development charges, but it’s not likely to happen soon. Gary Scandian of Watson and Associates gave Council a presentation at its regular meeting June 27 in Sharbot...
The Kick Push Brewing Company opened its doors one year ago this week, and while owner/brewmaster Daniel Lees has learned a lot over the past year, he would not claim to have everything worked out for his second summer. But he does have a larger...
One of the reasons that Two Faces of the Moon is such a compelling read, is that the author, Carolyn McGrath, is as interested in the lives of her neighbours on Bobs Lake, as she is in telling her own story and that of her family. Another is the...
The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP)-led Provincial Joint Forces Guns and Gangs Enforcement Team (PGNG) seized six firearms, including three stolen long guns, along with approximately 1,000 rounds of ammunition after a search warrant was executed in...
Arden, and specifically Arden Road, came in for considerable discussion at Central Frontenac Council’s regular meeting June 13 in Sharbot Lake. First, Council accepted a bid from Gemmill Sand and Gravel for $586,100 ($25,498 over budget) to...
The old yellow school bus that student’s council owned was a big part of getting teams to games and field trips for many groups. Although it didn’t always work the best, it was the best we had! The early 70’s saw a school dance party, live on...
This June, Rural Frontenac Community Services is celebrating Seniors Month! The theme for this year is Working for Seniors. At Rural Frontenac CS, we work for seniors every day by providing social services, such as PSW, home help, meals on wheels,...
Ever since Frank and Sandra White purchased the Sharbot Lake County Inn over 13 years ago, they have been renovating the building and altering the restaurant, entertainment and accommodations side of the business. The ‘hotel’ as it has been...
“Am humbled. I will again hear those sweet voices from nature. I will be able to hear my birds in the forests.” With those words Ugandan bird guide Ibrahim Senfuma greeted the news that St. Andrew’s Anglican Church in Sharbot Lake had raised...
Craig Middleton, a first time council member on Central Frontenac Council representing Ward 3 (Oso), tendered his resignation from council last week. According to Central Frontenac Chief Administrative Officer Cathy MacMunn, Middleton’s...
Pickleball is the fastest growing sport in North America. We have heard this time and again, and the townships are struggling to keep up with the demand for locations for players to play. One of the biggest challenges is indoor play as we know the...
Central Frontenac’s financial statements are in good order, auditor Cara Chesney of MNP told Council at its regular meeting May 23 in Sharbot Lake. “We have nothing to bring to your attention in terms of believing in terms of believing the...
As the 60’s began, the school population grew with the coming of the baby boomers. The school gym was divided into three classrooms, the principal was moved out of his office and relocated to the cadet storage room, along with the smell of...
About 50 patients of the Sharbot Lake Family Health Team (SLFHT) attended a meeting on May 10th to hear about a proposed amalgamation between the SLFHT and the Tay River Health Centre, a facility located in the Town of Perth that opened two years...
The saga of Matthew Street in Sharbot Lake may have finally come to a close at Central Frontenac Township Council’s May 9 meeting in Sharbot Lake. When the Township embarked on extensive roadwork in downtown Sharbot Lake, the short little Matthew...
While Lonnie Watkins Tree Service is celebrating its official 25th anniversary this month, the business has much deeper roots than that. Lonnie Watkins was raised in the wood cutting business, as both his father and grandfather cut wood on the farm...
Saturday May 6 the Sharbot Lake and District Lions with the assistance of Central Frontenac Recreation Committees and Masonic Lodge members did a community cleanup project in Districts 2 and 3 . Districts 1 and 4 had been done previously . Following...
It has been 18 months since the Maples Restaurant was sold to Brad Long. And apart from a limited take-out menu starting in early April, and some recent food pics on social media from soft opening evenings this month, no one has really known what to...
The cost of new construction in Central Frontenac will likely be going up as Council received a presentation from Sonya Bolton, County of Frontenac manager of community planning and Dep. Clerk Cindy Deachman on proposed new planning fees at its...
The roof was rocking last Wednesday night at the Talent Show at Granite Ridge Education Center! I had no idea there was so much amazing talent at GREC! The evening was filled with many talented vocalists; including a wonderfully enthusiastic...
As you walk or drive through Sharbot Lake, you may notice blue and green lights throughout the Village and surrounding area. Community Living -North Frontenac has joined many other Community Living agencies across the province to provide a powerful...
Carrie Westlake is frustrated. She lives on Bobs Lake, not far from Crow Lake Road, in South Frontenac, but is within the catchment area of NFTC (the acronym used by North Frontenac Telephone Company) which has its local office in Sharbot Lake. NFTC...
Physicians at Tay River Health Centre and Sharbot Lake have been working with the Sharbot Lake Family Health Team over the past several months on how to strengthen the delivery of primary care for our communities with a focus on those residents...
The Frontenac Crime Unit of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) has charged an individual after reports of serious criminal offences including sexual assault and uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm. As a result of an investigation that...
The North Frontenac Little Theatre’s spring production, their second in the cozy confines of their new home at the Soldiers Memorial (Oso) Hall in Sharbot Lake, was the Canadian premier of a play by Arden-based novelist and playwright, Glenys...
In 2021 Community Living Ontario (CLO) developed document called “Building a Full Life + a Home of One’s Own in the Community”. The paper discusses the steps that developmental services have taken over the years from deinstitutionalization to...
I am concerned about the following situation that is happening on Kennebec Road. It seems that some people are using the north side of Kennebec road as a trash dump. This started happening about a year ago and is progressively getting worse this...
Members of the Frontenac Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have charged one person with multiple offences after a domestic dispute at a residence in Central Frontenac Township. On April 19th, 2023, just after 9:00 p.m., Frontenac OPP...
CF Council, April 11. Central Frontenac Council did something that rarely happens in municipal council meetings - they brought back a decision of a previous Council to have another look at it. And as a result, Matthew Street in Sharbot Lake will...
This week, April 16-22, is National Volunteer Week (NVW), and it is appropriate that is also ties in nicely with the upcoming Pitch-In week that happens annually the 2nd-3rd week of April. In Frontenac, the thank you dinners have begun for local...
A 75 Reunion memory In 1948, when the school opened its door for the very first time, World War Two had just ended three years previously. Many men and women of the area had gone to war and sadly some hadn’t come home. The Canadian Armed Forces...
Sylvia Goodeve (Piano) Patrick Kline (Cello) Philip Candelaria (Guitar) Classical Music at Arden United Church Sylvia Goodeve could not have known, when she and her partner Bill Wong became full time residents on Blue Heron Ridge Lane on Kennebec...
