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Can you every really go home again? Find out by coming out to NFLT’s latest production Ciara’s Coming Home Thursday April 27 thru Sunday April 30th.at Oso Hall. The award winning play, written by Arden playwright Glenys O’Connell is being...
As Arden woke up on April 1st, the day started off a bit gloomy, the weather had warmed up slightly, but drizzle filled the air with a chilling dampness. There was a stillness at the Arden Mill Pond, as the locals prepared for the day ahead. 13...
Staff presented Central Frontenac Council proposed “evaluation matrices” for use when evaluating proposals for the sale of the former Hinchingbrooke school and former Mountain Grove library/fire hall properties at its regular meeting March 28 in...
Residents now have a new way to arrange for personal transportation across the counties. Rural Frontenac Community Services has launched their community carpool website. See www.communitycarpool.ca . “Rural transportation is a challenge when you...
The Director of the North Frontenac Little Theatre’s forthcoming production of Ciara’s Coming Home, Adrian O’Connalr, said this week that he is astonished not only by the engagement of cast and crew in Clara’s Coming, but by public interest...
On Tuesday, March 14th at 2:00 pm Rural Frontenac Community Services Youth Program celebrated the $130,400 Resilient Communities Fund grant, which the organization received from the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) in spring 2022 to support their...
Central Frontenac Council approved bringing back planning consultant Glenn Tunnock to do some housekeeping amendments to the Zoning Bylaw at its regular meeting March 14 in Sharbot Lake. The request for some changes came from Central Frontenac...
It has been a circuitous journey that has brought Dr. Doneisha Dodd to the Clarendon area of Central/North Frontenac to open an online Naturopathic practice. She was raised in Brampton, and did a Bachelor’s degree in Biology at York University in...
At a zoom seminar conducted by the Sharbot Lake Family Health Team in conjunction with Brad Flear, an addictions and mental health worker with Addictions and Mental of KFL&A, Ottawa based family doctor Dr. Jennifer Purdy discussed some of the...
Last week, The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) announced the complete protection of ecologically sensitive lands surrounding Loon Lake, located in Central Frontenac. NCC and nature champion Monte Hummel have reached an agreement to protect the...
The building may be gone, but the memories and the spirit will live forever. This year is the 75th Anniversary of the opening of Sharbot Lake High School. The opening of the new five room school in Sharbot Lake brought to completion plans that had...
St. Andrews Anglican Church in Sharbot Lake is putting on a concert with True North recording artist Craig Cardiff on Saturday, April 1st, from 7pm -9pm. Craig Cardiff is a prolific singer-songwriter, who has released 21 albums and EPs over the...
Meet Ibrahim Senfuma is a Ugandan bird guide used by St. Andrew’s Anglican Church parishioners Alison and Stewart Bentley in 2022. Ibrah is experiencing severe hearing loss which is negatively affecting his ability to do his guiding job, which...
The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 334 (Arden) will be hosting a St. Patrick's Day Dinner & Fundraiser at their hall (5967 Arden Rd.) on Friday March, 17 between 5 & 7 pm. An offering of Stew and Shepherd's Pie with dinner rolls, salad and desert is...
On Saturday night, District #4 Recreation Committee held a Chinese Dinner and Quarter Auction, the first since the COVID pandemic. The hall was packed, tickets sold out in record time, with people eager to participate in this fundraiser. Right after...
Central Frontenac Council passed its 2023 budget at its regular meeting Feb. 28 in Sharbot Lake. The budget is raising 2.9 per cent $274,280 more dollars than in 2022. Part of the way council managed to keep the increase under 3% in an inflationary...
On Wednesday, Feb. 22 students at Granite Ridge celebrated a day of diversity, inclusivity and acceptance by wearing pink. Pink Day is celebrated across Canada and inspired by two Nova Scotian students who stood up for a peer being bullied for...
The Friends of the Tay Watershed, in partnership with Little Stream Bakery, are looking for students who would like $1,000 to help with their college or university expenses. This year two bursaries will be awarded to students who have a special...
Talent shows have come a long way since their humble beginnings and then promotion to being televised in the late 1940s. The genre of reality TV was launched and audiences couldn’t get enough of oftentimes ‘quirky’ performances. Fast forward...
Central Frontenac lost one of its community cornerstones, not to mention one of its more colourful characters when Bob Harvey died Feb. 9 at Perth and Smith Falls District Hospital. He was 82 and had been suffering a brief illness. Bob, the barber,...
Almost three years ago, Covid hit Ontario causing live performances to be cancelled. Slowly, we are emerging from the pandemic, and the isolation. With caution, we are seeing the return of live music. This is my follow up interview with musician...
Central Frontenac Council began its Feb. 14 meeting 2 hours early in order to continue budget discussions. Treasurer Michael McGovern told Council that after numbers had been tweaked, there will be a 2.9 per cent increase in the municipal tax levy...
The Arden Legion is certainly the longest continuously running service organisation in the former Kennebec Township. It was founded in 1945 by returning veterans from WWII, and between 1945 and 1983 meetings were held in local homes and at the...
One of the casualties of the pandemic is making a full return in 2023. The Frontenac Heritage Festival is back for its 15th year. Some of the features of the early years of the festival, which originally took place the weekend before the annual...
Recently, I received a lovely text message with a few photos of an abandoned bus on the K&P Trail. Many of us that travel the trail, rarely take the time to investigate why or how these relics come to be. The bus has seen better days and sits tucked...
Third time was not the charm when it comes to special budget meetings for Central Frontenac as the Feb. 6 meeting only sent staff back to the drawing board. Council will reconvene at 2 p.m. Feb. 14 (before the regular Council meeting) to take...
“Today is just a budget day, nothing is carved in stone,” Central Frontenac Mayor Frances Smith told Council at the special budget meeting Jan. 30. Coming into the Jan. 19 budget meeting, staff had presented Council with a 7.8 per cent (levy)...
Curiosity abounds as locals slowly drive past the recently sold Godfrey General Store. The store had been owned for 46 years by Les and Shirley McGowan and it was then handed over to Scott and Laurie Love who managed it until November 2022. It has...
Central Frontenac Council gave Mayor Frances Smith and CAO/Clerk Cathy MacMunn the authority to sign an agreement with the owners of the property the Tichborne Rink stands on in order get it up and running for the rest of this winter at its regular...
After three years' delay courtesy of Covid 19, Ciara is finally on her way home! This time, to Oso Hall, Sharbot Lake, where North Frontenac Little Theatre recently announced that their Spring Production of "Ciara's Coming Home", written by Arden...
“If you go to the bank because you want to buy a house and you don't have the credit to buy the house, you don't buy the house.” - Central Frontenac Mayor Frances Smith. With that analogy, the longstanding township mayor set the tone for the...
On the cover of the New Year’s Day edition of the Globe and Mail, there was photo and article on the front page about a women who had walked across Canada. The article was also featured on the Globe and Mail website. Back in the summer 2018, a...
The Central Frontenac Pickleball Committee was at Central Frontenac Council’s regular meeting Jan. 10 in Sharbot Lake looking for a commitment that they can use the court at the old Sharbot Lake Public School for at least five years. They’re...
The Rock Hill B&B in Sharbot Lake is hosting a book launch and reading for tw new books of poetry published by Woodpecker Lake Press. One of the books is by Sharbot Lake poet Anne Archer. Her book is called “From the Frontenacs” and features...
We all eventually have a date with death. While death is a complex and often emotional topic, discussion, reflection, and community connections can help people manage anxieties and face the factsof human mortality.Join death doula and educator...
The newly renovated Soldiers Memorial Hall will get its first taste of guitar-based Rock n' Roll on Friday Night (January 13) when Tom Savage, and his band Dead Root Revival, take the stage. Savage has played in the region before. He is from...
Brad Long was first interviewed by the Frontenac News in October of 2021 about his plans for the former Maples Restaurant in that is the first thing people see as they cross over the causeway coming into Sharbot Lake from the south,. At the time, he...
The Frontenac Heritage Festival is returning in February after a covid-induced hiatus and Central Frontenac Council ponied up $1,000 to get it going at its regular meeting Dec. 13 in Sharbot Lake. “It will be somewhat watered down,” said...
All Our Favourite Things . . . was the theme for this year’s Festival of Trees. All entries showed creativity and great talent. Winners were two-fold: those who entered an item, and those who took it home! Large Trees: Friday Night Ladies won 1st...
On Thursday, December 15th, 2022, local MPP John Jordan met with the team at Connections Adult Learning (CAL) to hear more about the $34,500 Resilient Communities grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) that was used to assist with the...
MPP John Jordan’s office put out an announcement of over $500,000 in Trillium funding this week, including almost $200,000 in the Sharbot Lake area. Ontario Trillium Foundation Recipients include Rural Frontenac Community Services (just over $46...
This past weekend was, yet again, jam packed with activities for community members to enjoy. The weather prompted many folks to head indoors as winds and rains continued to blow through the Frontenacs. Had we had snow, we would have been knee deep...
Festival of Trees Winners 2022 “Some of my favourite things” Category First Second Third Large Trees Winter Family Fun Friday Night Ladies Songs of Christmas North Frontenac Community Services Christmas at the Box Office Central Front. Twp....
The Red Lamp, which completed a successful three-day run at Soldiers Memorial Hall, in Sharbot Lake on Sunday (November 27), was a long-awaited event, in several ways. It was the first full-live theatrical production for the 43 year-old North...
Kick and Push Brewing nabs Ontario Beer Award for Relax Alice “Relax Alice” was named for an expression from Daniel Lees' mother. It is used when someone is starting to get impatient or agitated, as in “Relax Alice, we've still got plenty of...
On Saturday December 10th from 10am-4pm, Back Forty Artisan Cheese will be hosting their annual Holiday Open House located at the farm and dairy in the hamlet of Mississippi Station. The festive open house will provide customers with a great...
“The exciting part of campaigning is over and now the real work begins,” Central Frontenac Mayor Frances Smith told her new Council at their inaugural meeting Nov. 15 in Sharbot Lake. “Since I didn’t have to campaign (having been acclaimed...
Rural Frontenac Community Services (RFCS) is trying something new. COVID has had a large impact on services for seniors that the agency offers in Central and North Frontenac. One of them has been an increase in demand for Meals on Wheels, which...
It was the warmest Remembrance Day in memory, as a crowd gathered from the surrounding area, to join students from Land O’Lakes Public School, cadets up from Kingston, Arden Legion members and Reverend Vernon Scott at the Mountain Grove Cenotaph...
A request to stop up, close and convey two road allowances was sent back to the drawing board at Central Frontenac Council’s regular meeting Nov. 8 as neighbours complained that the road allowances are used. The allowances in question form a lance...
Marg Desroche, who died two weeks ago, was known as an active member of the St. James Catholic Church congregation. She was also a dedicated volunteer with Rural Frontenac Community Services, helping organise their foot-care clinic for many years,...
