FRONTENAC COUNTY

It’s been 4 months since Frontenac County Council approved a draft budget, but with all that has happened since then, it might as well have been 4 years ago. County policy dictates that in all years, except those following a municipal election,...

Richard Allen, Manager of Economic Development for Frontenac County, and Anne Prichard, Executive Director of the Frontenac Community Futures Development Corporation, FCFDC have been talking with each other often, lately. They both work to enhance...

As of Monday, March 30, 2020 the KFL&A Public Health offices in Sharbot Lake and Cloyne will be open to the public for radon test and water sample drop off one day per week. These offices are closing temporary, with the exception of this one day, to...

With evidence of community spread of COVID-19 in the KFL&A region, the County of Frontenac has determined an emergency exists within our municipality that places our communities at risk. The County of Frontenac is taking action to help contain the...

The grocery business is tough in normal times, and these are not normal times. Stores are adept at tracking the sales of hundreds of product lines by the day, week, and month in order to stock what people are looking for most or all of the time. Ten...

Mike Mckenzie of Seed to Sausage saw his sales tumble, overnight, when the restaurant business collapsed two weeks ago, and was subsequently closed entirely. After laying off his hourly employees, he was trying to figure how to find enough work to...

I was preparing a post about how our office is not open to the public right now when I read online that the province is shutting down all "non-essential" businesses until April 13. We won't know what is considered essential until tomorrow...

Services in South, Central and North Frontenac and Addington Highlands  (This article is being updated on a continual basis) A lot is happening as communities pull together to keep everyone safe in troubled times South Frontenac Food Bank opens up...

Even before the announcement of a state of emergency and the forced closure of bars and restaurants, as well as gatherings over 50 people, Frontenac County municipalities, community services organisations, restaurants and other businesses had...

It certainly looks like the Frontenac Flyers Peewee rep team season is over, without much chance of their final series against the Ilderton Jets being played. The championship series had been scheduled to get underway this past weekend with two...

March 16 update on what is closed and what is still open, in Frontenac County and Addington Highlands One by one, services are shutting down throughout Ontario, and Frontenac County is following that pattern As of 2pm on Monday, March 16, Central...

March 16 update on what is closed and what is still open, in Frontenac County and Addington Highlands One by one, services are shutting down throughout Ontario, and Frontenac County is following that pattern As of 2pm on Monday, March 16, Central...

No confirmed cases in Frontenac County as of yet.  First off. After following up on a number of rumoured cases, in both Sharbot Lake and Sydenham, as of Sunday, March 15, there are no confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Frontenac County or the City of...

The much-anticipated Ride Share internet listing from Rural Frontenac Community Services had been scheduled to launch in January. However, a few wrinkles and glitches had to be worked out. “We came very close to launching,” said RFCS...

In a report to the Frontenac County Planning Advisory Committee, the county planning department outlined some of the positive changes in the updated PPS, a document that provides the context for what kinds of property development gets the go-ahead...

“Frontenac County is expected to grow to 33,000 by 2046 (it’s currently about 26,375),” Manager of community planning, County of Frontenac Megan Rueckwald told North Frontenac Council at its regular meeting last Friday in Plevna. “That’s...

Last week, the News received confirmation that the Community and Family Services department of the Kingston Salvation Army have taken over as the service provider for Homelessness Prevention services in Frontenac County. The Request for Proposal...

Kurt Halliday is a Parham area resident with a disability who has been working on developing services for physically disabled Frontenac County residents. He recently started up a demonstration project called Access Kingston Frontenac. “Access...

When the Peewee Flyers return to Frontenac Community Arena Friday night (7:30 game time), it will be with a 4-0 lead over the Shelburne Wolves in their 6-point total semi final match. In the first game of the semis, the Flyers came out strong,...

Eight months after Southern Frontenac Community Services (SFCS) pulled out of its agreement with the City of Kingston to provide homelessness prevention services for Frontenac County, a new provider of the service has finally been confirmed. “It...

The Frontenac Bantam Flyers find themselves all tied up with the Dundalk Storm at a win apiece heading to Dundalk next weekend for the third and fourth games of their six-point total series OMHA Playdowns semi-final. On Saturday at Frontenac Arena,...

Many folks in eastern Ontario have seen very huge white birds either flying or on the water. Those really huge white birds are Trumpeter Swans.   The last Trumpeter in Ontario was shot at Long Point in 1932. In 1988 Harry Lumsden, took on recovery...

Watson and Associates, a Mississauga based economic consulting firm, completed a population study for Frontenac County in 2014, and this week they brought an update to that study, a projection of population and employment outcomes for Frontenac...

On Wednesday February 12, 2020 at approximately 8:30 a.m. officers of the Lennox and Ad dington (L&A) County Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a report of break and enter at a local business on County Rd 41, in...

The four Frontenac townships, and Frontenac County, have received $150,000 from the Province of Ontario to undertake a service delivery review, it was announced last week. The project has been in the works for a few months, as part of a local...

A report by the consulting group KPMG, six months in the making, is being presented to a special meeting of Frontenac County Council this week, and all members of the four Frontenac townships have been invited to hear the presentation. The KPMG...

A delegation that included the general managers of three of the four Conservation Authorities that are responsible for watershed management in Frontenac County, made a presentation to the monthly Frontenac County Council meeting last Wednesday...

The Lanark County Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) charged the westbound driver involved in a two-vehicle collision on Highway 7 between Drummond Concession 9A and Pauls Road in Drummond-North Elmsley Township just before 2:00 p.m....

RED is back. The program which provides matching grants for economic development initiatives in rural Ontario, was used by the Land O’Lakes Tourist Association (now defunct) to maintain its operations for many years, and by Frontenac County to...

You might think that a company that builds docks and boathouses, and does shoreline restoration up and down the St.Lawerence seaway and Lake Ontario (and grows hops in the summer as well) would be taking it easy in early January. But late last...

After investigating complaints from ferry operators, Frontenac County integrity officer, Laura Dean, concluded that Councillor Bruce Higgs has breached the code of conduct for members of municipal councils. The code, which is part of the Ontario...

In North and Central Frontenac, the 9-1-1 system was made possible through a volunteer effort. Volunteer crew chiefs were given sections of road to cover and volunteers drove the township with measuring guns to establish the civic addressing system...

They say third time’s the charm and it could be so for new Frontenac County Warden Frances Smith. Smith, who is on County Council by virtue of being Mayor of Central Frontenac Township, was sworn in in December for a third term as warden, having...

Buck Lake’s Duncan Sinclair was one of 77 Canadians who were invested as members of the Order of Canada last week, in recognition of his contributions to the health care system in Canada. Dr. Sinclair was born in Rochester, New York and graduated...

A major portion of Frontenac County Chief Administrative Officer Kelly Pender’s report to Frontenac County Council, at their final meeting of 2029 on December 18, was devoted to the findings of a statistical review of paramedic services in the...

Warden Ron Higgins held his 2019 wine and cheese reception at the Grace Centre in Sydenham last Thursday. With special thanks to the Frontenac County staff and his fellow County Councillors, Higgins ended his review of the year with the admonition:...

Members of Kingston City Council were disappointed last week when Frontenac County Chief Administrative Officer Kelly Pender did not show up to brief them on how much the city will be charged for the delivery of land ambulance service and Fairmount...

The long and contentious approval process to create 15 new building lots at Johnston’s Point on Loughborough Lake (off North Shore Road) took another bizarre twist this month with the release of a new document. Because of the presence of two...

The ghost of the Mike Harris government is resting a bit more quietly in Ontario municipal circles. The province "will not force amalgamation of municipalities," Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing Steve Clark said at a public forum just after...

Thanks to a bulk purchase, residents from all corners of Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Counties are being encouraged to pick up a radon detection unit from Public Health offices in Kingston, Sharbot Lake, Cloyne and Napanee. The units come with...

The County of Frontenac in partnership with South Eastern Ontario Tourism Region RTO 9 and local businesses is represented at the Royal Agriculture Winter Fair in Toronto November 1 - 10. “We found out that the Royal was creating a new space at...

“We might lose Parham or Robertsville (ambulance stations),” North Frontenac Mayor and Frontenac County Warden Ron Higgins said at North Frontenac’s regular meeting last Friday in Plevna. Higgins was updating his Council on the recent...

Traffic has been brisk over the last few weeks on the newly completed section of the K&P trail between Tichborne and Sharbot Lake. With the last 8km now completed, the trail is a recreational link between Kingston and Sharbot Lake, and connects the...

As the Frontenac Repair Cafe wound down its final incarnation of 2019, the numbers bode well for a return next year (probably in April). The final cafe boasted 14 fixes, a new record. Included in that were a stuffed toy and an electric fireplace. In...

Meeting as a Committee of the Whole on Wednesday and Thursday (Oct. 23 and 24) of last week, Frontenac County Council added two new positions at Fairmount Home to a base draft budget that included a 4.21% tax increase, ultimately setting the budget...

Green vote triples in riding Long serving Conservative MP Scott Reid was returned to Parliament for the 7 th time on Monday night, with almost double the vote of his nearest rival, Liberal Kayley Kennedy. Reid received 29,405 votes (48.3%) up a bit...

Anyone expecting fireworks like the leaders debate Oct. 7 at the Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston riding candidates debate sponsored by the Retired Teachers of Ontario and The Frontenac News last Wednesday in Verona would have been greatly disappointed. In...

It’s been a busy few weeks for Satinka Schilling, and last week as no exception. In her day job at the Perth Pie company the week before thanksgiving is just about the busiest of the year, and in the late afternoons and evenings she was on the...

Unlike all the other candidates in Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston, Scott Reid is not a rookie candidate. Not by a longshot. He has been a member of Parliament continuously since 2000, when he was elected in Lanark-Carleton, making him one of only two...

The election campaign for Stephen Kotze began early and has been ramping up ever since. Although the Green Party candidate (Anita Payne) only received 3.5% of the vote in Lanark Frontenac Kingston in 2015, there were three people contesting the...