FRONTENAC COUNTY

Government programs come and go over time, but the Kingston Frontenac Renovates program has been in place, in a couple of forms, for multiple decades. It is a targeted program that serves a specific population and set of needs, and it is simple to...

This is the final week to nominate a business for the 2026 Frontenac County Business Awards. Across Frontenac County, local businesses do more than provide products and services. They create connections, support local initiatives, welcome visitors,...

The East Region Community Street Crime Unit, with assistance from members of the Frontenac County Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), has arrested two individuals following the execution of a search warrant in Central Frontenac...

Wednesday Oct 7 was the annual cross-country Timberwolf Run at Land 'O Lakes PS in Mountain Grove. Prince Charles Public School students Anyiah Bishop and Marshall Kellar both won first place in their respective senior races!

individuals after concluding several investigations over a one-week period. On Monday, December 1, 2025, it was reported that two individuals entered a residence in South Frontenac Township and assaulted the lone occupant with a weapon, resulting in...

Frontenac Lennox and Addington Ontario Health Team (FLA OHT) Dr. Kim Morrison is a Primary Care doctor in Napanee and the Chair of the FlA OHT, an organisation working on coordinating and integrating health care in Kingson, Frontenac and Lennox and...

Anne Prichard, founding executive director of Frontenac Business Services, formerly Frontenac Community Futures Development Corporation, has advised the board of directors of her intention to retire. For the past 23 years, Anne has worked closely...

Members of the Frontenac Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and East Region Snowmobile, ATV and Vessel Enforcement (SAVE), conducted marine patrol on Bobs Lake which resulted in the arrest of two individuals for impaired operation. On...

KEYS Employment Services September in Frontenac County is one of the best times of the year. There are still weeks of summer to enjoy. The lakes are warm, the days can be beautiful, farmers' markets and roadside stands are overflowing, and fall...

Anne Douglas first came to the Arden area with her husband Andrew, to run Circle Square Ranch in Arden. After several years, they moved on from managing the camp, but settled locally on Frontenac Road. Andrew started a digital marketing company that...

Federal Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon sent a letter to North Frontenac on September 2nd, clarifying the timelines for the determination of a refined corridor for Alto through Eastern Ontario. The letter was sent to the township in response to...

A partnership between Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) and Frontenac Paramedics is helping ambulances return to the community more quickly after bringing patients to the Emergency Department, improving the community’s access to emergency...

Dr. Cherie Lafreniere has been a practicing chiropractor for 28 years, starting her practice as soon as she graduated from the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College in 1998. She set up a practice in Midland, and worked there for 22 years with her...

It has taken over 17 years and millions of dollars, but Frontenac County will have completed the K&P Trail, almost, by the end of this year. Richard Allen, Manager for Economic Development for Frontenac County, appeared before North Frontenac...

We’ve had an amazing summer so far at the Kingston Frontenac Public Library (KFPL), and there’s still plenty of fun to enjoy this August! KFPL’s Summer Reading Challenges run until August 22, so there’s still time to participate for your...

For members of the Wolfe Lake Association Westport, the annual gathering is always an opportunity to connect, share updates and discuss issues that affect life on the lake. This year, however, the conversation turned to something that could one day...

Summer’s almost here, and the Kingston Frontenac Public Library (KFPL) is kicking things off with a full lineup of engaging programs, events and activities for all ages! Reading could win you prizes this summer! That’s right—KFPL’s Summer...

The Alto consultation period ended over a month ago. But that has not meant an end to the debate about the route that will eventually be chosen for the proposed high speed rail line through Eastern Ontario.  There have been citizen protests...

Lanark-Frontenac Kingston MPP John Jordan and Hastings Lennox and Addington MPP Ric Bresee traveled to Sharbot Lake last week, and Dr. Kim Morrison, the Executive Lead for the Frontenac Lennox and Addington Family Health Team (FLA OHT), were joined...

Since the start of a nearly 4 month nomination window for the 2026 Ontario municipal elections on May 1st, only a few people have stepped forward so far. There are candidates for mayor in the three Frontenac townships that we cover at the Frontenac...

Frontenac County had a relatively light agenda for their monthly meeting on Wednesday April 15. Aside from the monthly report from CAO Kevin Farrell, Richard Allen, Manager for Economic Development (ED), presented two annual reports. The first dealt...

The Frontenac Lennox and Addington Family Health Organisation (FLA OHT) has been under construction and development for 15 years. It does not have a high public profile because it is a co-ordinating body for health care providers of various kinds...

(EDitors Note - After this article was written and was being printed, before it was published - the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada Pierre Poillievre, announced his partywas opposing the Alto project) When Save South Frontenac started...

The Frontenac Farming community is not happy with a Central and South Frontenac tourism promotion campaign, targeting Instagram and Tic Toc users in Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto. The program, the first of its kind in Frontenac County, initiated on...

Quietly, the Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) has been working on a development plan ever since the full amalgamation of Kingston General Hospital and Hotel Dieu Hospital was completed almost 10 years ago. A location for a brand new hospital...

Federal Minister of Transportation Stephen MacKinnon said recently that Alto will pursue an aggressive timeline, and that once the final corridor is identified at the end of 2026 or the beginning of 2027, expropriations will proceed almost...

Kingston Mayor Bryan Patterson, and South Frontenac Mayor Ron Vandewal have taken a combine position supporting a passenger rail corridor with a stop in Kingston, a position that has now been supported by Ontario Premier Doug Ford as well;. “Our...

For those who had been fearing that RBC would follow the lead of BMO, and start closing local rural branches, the opposite seems to be happening. BMO closed its branch in Northbrook several years ago and is in the process of shuttering both its...

March 29 has become an important date for a segment of the growing number of groups and individuals in rural Quebec and rural Eastern Ontario who are concerned about the potential impact of a high-speed rail line traversing the landscape in their...

A series of special sessions are coming up this month at rural branches of the Kingston Frontenac Public Library and other locations. The Climate Resilience Series: Strengthening Adaptation and Resilience in Neighbourhoods – Saturday, March 7, 2pm...

At their regular monthly meeting for February, Frontenac County Council received a presentation from Kathy Ganz and Sheila MacDonald, Wolfe Islanders who are the President and Treasurer of the volunteer-based Wolfe Island Community Medical Clinic....

IIt happened back in November of 2025. At a meeting of the Frontenac County Community Advisory Committee, a report on the most recent version of the Frontenac County, Tourism Kingston sponsored Open Farms event, included a recommendation that after...

Dave Gervais and Geoffrey Murray have both worked as carpenters, in the trades, and as educators. They both taught in Sharbot Lake, both at Sharbot Lake High School and later at Granite Ridge Education Centre, and retired years ago. Just over five...

The long-anticipated corridor mapping for the proposed ALTO high speed rail project has been released, and along the 1,000 kilometre-long corridor, there is a single section where two alternate corridors are being considered, and that happens to be...

Bookended by windstorms and following a heavy downpour, Saturday, December 20, 2025, dawned cold and overcast with scattered sunny breaks. Several teams from among 43 field surveyors made their way along roads and over trails, driving 256 km and...

Caesar Salad 4 Portions – The recipe is as I would make it. You can alter as you wish to make you happy. Ingredients: 2 to 4 garlic cloves – This is raw garlic. Fresher is stronger. Use your best judgement for quantity. 4 anchovy filets – You...

Winter in Frontenac County can be beautiful—but it can also make looking for work feel discouraging, especially when many local jobs are seasonal. With fewer postings, shorter days, and travel limitations, many job seekers feel stuck. But winter...

On December 11, the Community Foundation For Kingston and Area Awarded $370,000 to charities in the region, and Frontenac County was well represented in this granting cycle. In all, 5 Frontenac County based projects received funding, for a total...

North and Central Frontenac Councils both met last Thursday (December 4) for a new kind of budget process. They were presented with a complete draft budget by their treasurer, which had been put together by staff as in previous years, but unlike in...

The powers that be smiled upon the intrepid Frontenac Bird Counters, on Saturday, December 14, 2024. Count day dawned crisp, sunny, and dry, with a couple of inches of snow and almost no wind. A phenomenal search effort by 54 field surveyors and 13...

In assuming the chain of office as Warden of Frontenac County, Bill Saunders pointed out that he is 160th Warden in the history of the county, going back to the founding of Frontenac County in 1865. He is also the first Warden, at least since...

A ceremony was held at the Piccadilly Hall on November 18 to hand out the 2025 Frontenac County business awards. There were 38 nominees for the awards, each one accompanied by a letter explaining to the anonymous judging panel why the nominated...

Ashleigh Peck of Purely Mobile Hygiene, Mike and Nawar Hage of Myers Cave Resort, and Janet Gutowski representing the Central Frontenac Housing Corporation (CFHC) are recipients of the 2025 Frontenac Access Award. The Access Award was created in...

pted, in most cases, to market their tourism businesses by taxing their existing tourist base, through a Municipal Accommodation Tax, (MAT) which is levied only on people who pay for overnight accommodation at hotels and motels, resorts, and at air...

This year, the Sharbot Lake Legion joined a number of other rural communities by inviting local families to sponsor banners to fly in their communities in the run up to Remembrance. The Sharbot Lake banners are flying in the vicinity of the Cenotaph...

The Frontenac Fury U15 girls hockey team had an outstanding performance at the West Northumberland Wild Halloween Havoc Girls Hockey Tournament held this past weekend, October 24–26 in Cobourg. The team kicked off the tournament with a hard-fought...

A largely forgotten chapter of Canadian history will be brought to light in the 50-min documentary film that is coming to Perth and Kingston, on November 7-9. Created by director/producer Colin Field and historian/producer Bonnie Sitter, the...

The Frontenac Business Awards are back, and the nomination window runs until the end of October. The annual awards are recognition of a vibrant business community that often escapes notice, in a county that has no urban centre where businesses are...

Septic System for Fairmount Home and Frontenac County Office The 23 year-old septic system at the Frontenac County site in Glenburnie has been in place since 2003, and underwent a major repair in 2011. The system was evaluated as part of the...