Written by Jeff Green

If anyone was surprised when Christine Elliott, the Ontario Minister of Health, indicated on Monday that the “stay at home” order in Ontario will likely be  extended, they shouldn’t have been.  With case loads, hospitalisation, ICU, and ventilator numbers all just starting to drop after plateauing at the highest level… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

We are all used to Randy Hillier lying about COVID, the charter of rights, and how sober his sons were when they arrested at the Arrow Pub in Perth. He found another line to step over when he started retweeting comparisons between COVID restrictions and the policies of the Nazi… READ MORE

Written by Craig Bakay

I’ve never really considered myself part of any herd except maybe hippies and rock’n’roll musicians but when it comes to being part of the covid herd immunity thing, I’m in. My beloved daughter Meggie will be relieved to know that I got my first covid shot Monday. I plan to… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

Until only a few weeks ago, political dis-function in the United Stated and the United Kingston has been part of the reason why the overall COVID case and death rates have much higher than ours have been in Canada. But since they are two of the nations with the highest… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

Oh, the sacrifices I make so others don’t have to. I consider it my responsibility, as a reporter and editor, to follow certain people on social media, mostly on Twitter. It is usually not that onerous. In fact it brings information and story ideas. But among those people whose accounts… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

Last Saturday (March 28), the 539th person received a dose of Astrazeneca vaccine at the Sharbot Lake Pharamasave. Sarah Swanson, the pharmacist, has no idea when more vaccine will come to her store. Meanwhile, the pharmacies in Harrowsmith, Inverary and Northbrook area will also complete their vaccination programs by April… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

Last Friday morning, I strolled over to the Sharbot Lake Pharmasave to get a shot of AstraZeneca.  There were no crowds. Pharmacy staff were using the day as a soft launch of their vaccine protocols. They were learning how to input data into the new provincial system, and how to… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

To say the COVD-19 vaccine rollout has been messy in Canada would be an understatement. Supply problems in January and February have now given way to confusion over who will be able to be vaccinated, where they will be able to get vaccinated, and which vaccine they will get. I'm… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

It is clear, one year into the COVID universe, that Canadians, and our region in particular, have fared rather well. As a country, our infection rate is 25% of the rate in the United Stated and our death rate is about 40% of the death rate down South. In our… READ MORE

Written by Robin Snider

As both a parent and a teacher, I can attest that everyone who has been subjected to the challenges that the education system has faced since the pandemic first emerged can whole-heartedly and unequivocally tell you that it has been both mentally and physically exhausting to all involved. Let us… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

For a number of years, volunteer board members from Pine Meadow Nursing Home in Northbrook, usually accompanied by local councillors from North Frontenac Township, made an annual trip to Glenburnie to plead for support from Frontenac County Council for a nominal amount of support for Pine Meadow, somewhere between $10,000… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

With only a small space for an editorial, I thought something about the lighter side of living with COVID-19 would be apt. There aren’t that many lighter sides to the pandemic, as we all know. We are in the midst of Lock-down 2.0 and the latest news about hyper contagious… READ MORE

Written by Sara Brown

“You have breast cancer.”  Those are the words that kicked off my summer of 2020.  It all started one morning in June.  The kids had just finished up school and we were all ready to begin enjoying the nice weather.  I freely admit that I didn’t do regular self assessment… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

Last year, in our first issue of the year, long before we had any idea that 2020 would be dominated by a pandemic that would have an impact on our daily lives for 9 months (and counting), we published a call for reader support. It costs about $30 a year… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

Kingston Frontenac Public Health confirmed on Friday afternoon, that the region is moving into the Orange zone on the Ontario colour coded COVID-19 protection zones as of Monday, December 21. It takes some checking to determine the difference between the Yellow and Orange zones in the Ontario pandemic colour coding… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

Every year we put the call out to local schools about our Christmas drawing contest. We rarely hear anything back, and each year as we are putting out the second to last paper of the year we wonder if we will get any drawings from the schools. This year was… READ MORE