Written by Jeff Green

The Frontenac News office is located next to the Sharbot Lake Pickleball court. This means that throughout the summer at least, whether it is a sunny day or a cloudy, whether it is a little cool or a lot hot out, there is relentless noise emanating from the next property… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

Canada Post is in big trouble. At least that is what the corporation is telling Canadians. In releasing its 2023 annual report this past June, the corporation announced an annual pre-tax loss of $748 million, and said it must change its delivery model in order to survive. Two issues were… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

MP Mark Gerretson, MPP Ted Hsu, and Mayor Bryan Paterson are the three senior politicians in the City of Kingston, and they all came to Frontenac County at the same time last week. The occasion was the cutting of a corn stalk to mark the start of Open Farm Days… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

For those Ontarians who don't particularly like all the fuss and bother of elections, it looked like we were in luck until the tale end of 2025 before another visit to the polls for those who come out to vote. In the late spring, however, rumours that the Ontario government… READ MORE

Written by Lorna Jean Edmonds

Am I mistaken or have many traditionally ‘rural’ ridings and the counties, cities and communities within them more recently evolved into something different? Look around you – are your neighbours the same? Are the shops the same? Are the services - roads, schools, health care - the same – better… READ MORE

Written by Amy Buitenhuis

On August 1, communities in Frontenac and across the Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Health Unit will no longer have any information about the levels of COVID and other diseases in the community. At the start of June, the Ford government decided to cancel the program testing wastewater for… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

Early this week, a Frontenac OPP release came out announcing that an arrest had been made in a fatal collision case. The arrest was not related to either of the recent fatal incidents in Frontenac County. It was neither the car crash on Burke Settlement Road in Central Frontenac, nor… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

It has been almost a month since a car crash on Burke Settlement Road killed Alex Cryer, a student at Granite Ridge Education Centre, and sent others to hospital. And it has been almost three weeks since a boat crash on Bobs Lake killed Juliette Cote, Ryley Orr, and Kaila… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

A few weeks ago, Linda Rush and Marily Seitz – who have shared the columnist duties in Ompah, decided to withdraw from the column. This week’s paper features the final column for Wanda Harrison in Arden. In all three cases, the decision was made for a very good reason. The… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

The case surrounding a Granite Ridge student who wore a t-shirt saying “There are only two genders” has drawn attention on social media which has spread out from Sharbot Lake across Canada and into the United States. The Limestone District School Board took the position that the assertion on the… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

When Frontenac County announced last week that their new Chief Administrative Officer was an internal hire, Kevin Farrell, it came as a bit of a surprise, but it probably shouldn’t have. In 2016, after seeing 9 different appointees as Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) in 9 years, culminating in a three-month… READ MORE

Written by Fred Barrett

Eclipse! What to say! Humbling, I guess, at being a witness to a truly spectacular example of the immensity of the universe, our microscopic place in it and the certainty that we will never have any control over what goes on. We can only sit back and watch. I travelled… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

Every day of the year is the National or International Day of something or other, or more than one thing. January 23 is National Pie Day in both Canada and the United States. The date was set in the 1970s by a man in Boulder, Colorado whose birthday was on… READ MORE

Written by Ken Hook

There has been discussion about waste site employees checking bags at our waste sites.  Why is this important?  Both Addington Highlands and North Frontenac Townships recycle and divert as much garbage from the waste sites and transfer stations as much as possible. They do this because: 1) It’s the right… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

So, far it is only a few lines of text in an Auditor General’s report, but slowly across rural Ontario there is starting to be a reaction to the idea that free water testing for total coliform and e coli, will no longer be offered to the 3 million rural… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

There was a lot of enthusiasm among the three people who presented a plan to create a single Public Health Unit to serve six counties and the City of Kingston. It is a plan that seems destined to become a reality, in a matter of months. While all of the… READ MORE