CENTRAL FRONTENAC

Rehearsals are well underway for the North Frontenac Little Theatre November 24th, 25th and 27th production of The Red Lamp. This play, first performed in Sharbot Lake Soldier’s Hall in the summer of 1922, was written by Hilliard Booth and revised...

The Central Frontenac Pickleball Committee presented Council with a couple of options at the Oct. 25 regular meeting but it may be awhile before either becomes an outcome. Spokesperson Sandy Robertson told Council that having the pickleball courts...

Looking for a great kick start to the holiday season? Be sure to check out this year's Festival of Trees! Christmas is coming and so is the return of the Festival. Folks, we invite you to mark Dec. 2nd & 3rd on your calendar. This year's Festival...

Last November NFLT, with Covid protocols in place, held a successful fundraiser called "On with the Show" at OSO Hall. At the fundraiser it was announced that the first production at the newly renovated OSO Hall would be "The Red Lamp" The story of...

Granite Ridge grade 9-12 students participated in a municipal election exercise last week, organised by Wade Leonard's grade 10 civics class. “We used resources that were provided by CIVIX.ca . They sent us a great package of information and...

This weekend started out with a quick trip to the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #425 in Sharbot Lake where you could enjoy a lovely ham and scalloped potato supper for $15. The Legion is located at 1015D Legion Road in Sharbot Lake. The next day was...

Honorary life members exemplify a commitment to our vision of a strong Community. To date Rural Frontenac Community has awarded 47 awards to local residents. This year’s Honourary Life Membership Award goes to Alvin Lake. 23 years ago, Alvin...

On October 7, 2022 runners from Granite Ridge, North Addington, Clarendon, and Prince Charles came to Land O’Lakes for a morning of cross-country racing. After a long two year hiatus, it was a perfect day to gather the northern area schools for a...

Three years ago, Miranda Malisani, a Toronto based nutritionist, originally from Ardoch, and Mike McKenzie from Seed to Sausage, began raising money each fall for the Holiday Hearts Campaign. Holiday Hearts provides gifts for children, whose...

Piccadilly Hall could soon have a new fully accessible door assuming a grant application to the Enabling Accessibility Fund (EAF) is successful. Council approved the application following a presentation from Manager of Development Services/CBO Andy...

Saturday morning dawned crisp and clear, a perfect day for a trail ride. As the trailers made their way down Wagarville Road, over 60 people prepared to do just that. The second annual Charity Ride commenced promptly at noon at Long Lake Ranch....

For a street that isn’t as long as the average NFL punt, Matthew Street in Sharbot Lake is sure stirring up quite the fuss. For those who haven’t been paying attention, Matthew Street runs from Elizabeth Street, essentially right at the Cardinal...

Welcome to the second annual Sharbot Lake recreational Pickleball Tournament! The courts, located on Garrett Street, came to life this past Saturday as athletes arrived to vie for the coveted title of King or Queen of the courts. 14 participants...

Armed with a petition of nearly 200 signatures, residents Marlene Bertrim and Ian Whillans addressed Central Frontenac Council’s Sept. 13 meeting in opposition to a plan to turn Matthew Street into a one-way thoroughfare with a pedestrian walkway....

North Frontenac Little Theatre (NFLT) is pleased to announce that the curtain will go up, the lights will be lit, at the newly renovated Oso Hall this November. Readers may recall that last fall, a successful fund-raising event took place at the...

Frontenac County’s resident flautist, Anne Archer, is set to release her second collection of poems, From the Frontenacs, at a launch at Novel Idea Bookstore in Kingston on September 15. “My first book, Ich Heisse Clara, was about Clara Shumann...

When Cecil Paul was growing up, his mother Lila always told him that her grandfather had been murdered at Sharbot Lake. Lila lived a long life, dying in Trenton in November 2002 at the age of 95, and Cecil decided to write a book about the murder of...

With a quick check on Wikipedia, you can find out that the first known agricultural show was held by Salford Agricultural Society in Lancashire (a county in Northwest England) in 1768. Jump ahead to approximately 1890 in Parham, Ontario, and a fair...

The controversy over one aspect of a road project in Sharbot Lake continues to develop. The project, which was proposed by township staff after consulting an engineering firm with expertise in traffic flow, was approved by Central Frontenac Council...

The sun is shining and it is HOT. Families are lounging at Sharbot Lake beach with towels and umbrellas scattered across the soft grass as the children splash in the cool knee-deep water that seems to go on for miles. White tents align the...

After two years of COVID and continuing concerns about planning events during pandemic outbreaks, the organisers of the Silver Lake Pow Wow met earlier this year to see if they could bring the Pow Wow back, after a two-year hiatus. Trudy Knapp, a...

A request for repairs to recreational facilities in District 4 by rec committee Chair Bob Teal turned into a discussion over the fate of the Tichborne rink at last week’s regular Central Frontenac Council meeting. “The reason I’m here is I’d...

It’s been a long year for Jen and Stephen Trussell, and their brewing business, the Local Brewery. A year ago this week, they had a booth at the Parham Vendor’s market. It was an event that was put on by the Parham Agricultural Society because...

Both in her day job at Lanark Lodge, a long-term care facility in Perth, and in her passion project as the conductor of the Blue Skies Community Fiddle Orchestra, Cindy McCall has felt the stress of the last 21/2 years. While Lanark Lodge is now...

At the northern end of Sharbot Lake along the TransCanada highway is where you can find Frenchie’s Chip Truck, owned by Chris Charlebois and Kenneth McQuaid since the spring of 2021. The longtime friends from the Kingston area, Chris’ family has...

The Sharbot Lake Caboosefest was back in full force this year, featuring a kids area, tours of Railway Heritage Park, the return of Town Crier Patty O'Conner and his railway sidekick Jonathan Wisteard, and a visit from newly minted Lanark Frontenac...

While many events and festivals across Ontario struggled, the Parham Agricultural Society used it to their advantage. “After the 2019 fair, almost the entire Fair Board switched over because people were burnt out” said Board President, Haley...

When Sam Arraj bought Seeds Accounting, he decided to keep the companies base in Sharbot Lake and integrate it with his other accounting practices in Kingston and Toronto. He also was interested in the country music heritage of Sharbot Lake and...

It’s 2022, and I pull up in front of the main store, the stone fireplace is still there, a testament of time. Solid, strong, with a permanence that grounds the buildings steeped in the history of Gull Lake and Kirk Kove. To get to here (the...

There will be something for everyone at the 2022 Caboosefest in sunny Sharbot Lake. After Town Crier Paddy O’Connor opens things up at 10am, kids and adult games and crafts will get underway at Railway Heritage Park on Elizabeth Street (across...

Nothing says summer quite like the smell that wafts through the air as you pass by a chip truck on long country road. In its second operating season Jenny’s Northern Grill, located in the parking lot of the Godfrey General Store (811 Rd 38), has...

Mayor's remarks In her remarks before the start of what was supposed to be the only Central Frontenac Council meeting this month (a special meeting was later called for this week to deal with the implications of CP Rail construction activity)...

The Central Frontenac Railway Heritage Society is pleased to announce Caboosefest 2022 will be held on Saturday, August 6th at the Railway Heritage Park off Elizabeth Street in Sharbot Lake, from 10am to 3pm. “The event has something for the...

Last year, the Sharbot Lake Pickleballers transformed the derelict tennis court at the former public school into an active Pickle Ball court, using money they fundraised themselves. Last week, at a regular meeting of Central Frontenac Council (June...

While the beer industry has been ‘brewing’ in Frontenac County for a number of years, when the Kick and Push Brewing Company opened its taproom on June 29th and served two premise brewed beers, in addition to two beers brewed off-site, it marked...

An individual faces a long list of charges following a lengthy investigation into financial irregularities dating back several years. Members of the Frontenac County Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) began the investigation in 2017....

The Frontenac Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is investigating a motor vehicle collision that resulted in serious injuries to 63-year old Christopher Clayton, a resident of Addington Highlands. On Friday, June 24, at approximately...

A proposal to “Stop up and Close” a portion of the unmaintained “heritage” road, known as Oso Road, which runs from Bell Line Road to a short section of the maintained Oso Road, that still exists off of Road 509, ran into some opposition...

The Sharbot Lake Business Group has remained active behind the scenes over the last few years, not being able to hold any of its normal twice annual events for local business owners. In that time the group worked on the Sharbot Lake Community...

When Jeff and Jenna Fenwick moved from Lanark County to the picturesque farm property overlooking the Mississippi River on Gulley Road in Frontenac County, they also built new facilities for their two home-based businesses – Back Forty Cheese and...

A new chapter is being written in the storied history of the Crow Lake Schoolhouse. Diana Meeks purchased the building on December 1, 2021, from the Township of Central Frontenac. Until the onset of COVID, the building had been operated by a...

Washroom woes at Sharbot Lake Beach were once again a topic of conversation at a Central Frontenac Council meeting, specifically the regular meeting May 24 at Oso Hall in Sharbot Lake. Council heard from Alison and Wayne Robinson, representing the...

Tawny Stowe moved to the Hughes Road, near Big Clear Lake and Arden, with her mother and step-father, and her young son, in December of 2020. Since then, she has been exploring and developing the property, all the while dealing with family health...

“You have lakes that are gems,” planner Glenn Tunnock told Central Frontenac Council at a special meeting May 18 called to discuss changes to the Township’s Zoning Bylaw. “That is precious. “One of the responsibilities you have is to...

Mia Craig and her family made the decision to become permanent lakefront residents on Sharbot Lake near the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. They bought their property on Sharbot Lake in 2019, planning to rent it out some of the time and use it...

For the past three years, Rural Frontenac Community Services Youth Program has been celebrating Youth Month in May. To celebrate youth in our community Rural Frontenac C.S. hosts a variety of activities during Youth Month; including starting the...

Anyone who’s priced out some renovations for this summer will have no doubt noticed that things have become more expensive than they were before the pandemic and Central Frontenac Council were made all too aware of this at their regular meeting...

Rob and Nancy Moore took over the Cardinal Cafe from its original owners, Nicole Tarasick and Sylvie Smith at the beginning of the summer in 2015. The building, which had been a Catholic Church until it was replaced by a larger church up the road in...

“We saw a need and have put in place what is needed to fill it.” That's how Peter Copestake describes the new business venture that island Marine Construction, a 35 year old family run vconstruction company owned by Greg Fleming, started up last...

Members of the South Frontenac and Sharbot Lake Detachments of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have arrested one person in connection with a stolen motor vehicle and break and enter. On May 9, 2022 at approximately 3:50am, officers responded to...