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Preliminary Frontenac County budget at 4.97% increase Members of Frontenac County Council are spending two sessions looking at the 2013 budget. The newly minted County Finance Committee has already met with Treasurer Marian Vanbruinessen and other...
Frontenac County budget debate: Green Energy Task Force falls prey to budget wrangle The tone of the 2013 Frontenac County Council became clear when they met on January 17 to consider this year’s budget. The debate was centred on the budgetary...
The North & Central Frontenac Relay for Life 2013 Committee is well on it’s way in the planning of this year’s event scheduled for June 21st. With 11 teams registered to date, the committee is excited about this year’s event!! Again this...
The 6th Annual Frontenac Old Time Music Championships took place in a new venue last weekend, Sept. 21 & 22, the Verona Lions Hall. In their first year, the championships were held at the Piccadilly Hall, which proved to be too small. They then...
In the heat of debate on a motion that was directed at her, Frontenac County Warden Janet Gutowski announced that she will step down as warden at the end of this year. She said that she will be doing so “mostly because being the warden of a county...
Frontenac County Council agreed last week to proceed with a contract for the construction of an ambulance base in North Frontenac Township. The contract was awarded to Argue Construction for $503,650. However additional costs, including professional...
Scott Reid, who is likely to be the only person to ever serve as MP for the Lanark Frontenac Lennox and Addington riding, appeared before Frontenac County Council last week with an update on the riding redistribution process and its impact in the...
In order to settle the Ontario Land Claim and establish title over 9 million acres of land that is inhabited by over 1 million people, the governments of Ontario and Canada will pay $300 million and transfer at least 117,000 acres of land to the...
It has been almost 10 months since Frontenac County Warden Janet Gutowski defied the rest of her council and refused to relinquish her position as warden. At the time she argued she was the only one on council with the requisite knowledge and...
Seeking $1 million in damages Back in May, David Jones, a member of Frontenac County Council from Frontenac Islands, put forward an unusual motion. The motion claimed that Janet Gutowski, the county warden, had breached her oath of office by...
Lanark Frontenac Lennox and Addington MPP Randy Hillier has taken on one particularly unpopular opponent this summer, Hydro One. On August 1, Hillier wrote a letter to the Ontario Ombudsman Andre Marin, in which he asked Marin to investigate Hydro...
Ashley Rae has become the face of fishing in Eastern Ontario. She has a TV show that will be aired later on this year and she has been promoting fishing in other media as well. And this summer she has been working with the Land O’Lakes Tourist...
On July 30, Leonard Emery, along with his cousin Paul, took a group of interested residents from Canonto Lake for a walk along several parts of the K & P trail. It was most interesting to see evidence of the railway, which ran from Kingston to...
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is the federal agency that has conducted an expensive (and unsuccessful) battle against the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) for over 10 years. The borer was discovered in the Windsor/Detroit area in 2002. In 2004,...
I have never been a fan of strategic plans. While they are a good idea in theory, and can be useful in some circumstances, they can also be hopelessly vague, and provide nothing more than a payday for professional facilitators and a forum for...
Frontenac County reserve funds to stay put for now After spending two meetings talking about millions of dollars that they hold in various reserve funds, Frontenac County Council has decided to complete a strategic plan. Although the county holds up...
County councilors, staff, residents, volunteers and community members gathered at Fairmount Home yesterday to celebrate the success of the Auditorium Revitalization fundraising campaign. The campaign’s $200,000 fundraising goal was exceeded...
Everyone Lawyers Up As County Feud Lingers The ongoing enmity between Frontenac County Warden Janet Gutowski and at least four members of Frontenac County Council was played out again last week. On Wednesday, June 19, as the council's monthly...
It’s been five years since Frontenac County released its Integrated Community Sustainability Plan (ICSP), and in the spring of each of those years county council members and staff have held a breakfast for community members who participate in...
May 1st of this year marked the second anniversary of the creation of Frontenac Transportation Service. Transportation programs have arisen to address some of the huge challenges for people who live in rural areas and cannot drive or do not have...
Councilor charges warden with influence peddling Frontenac County Councilor David Jones upped the ante in his ongoing attacks against Frontenac County Warden Janet Gutowski last week by saying the warden used “tricks and influence peddling” to...
Dave Parkhill says that in his first run for provincial office under the NDP banner he was basically “like a lamb to the slaughter” but this time will be different. “This time I feel I will be more like a soldier falling on my sword,” he...
If the Frontenac County budget process were a play (it would likely be a melodrama) then the first thing that would strike the audience about the final scene, was that one of the major players was missing. Choosing instead to preside over Business...
Woodlot owners in Frontenac County are eligible to participate in a program that will give them the opportunity to learn valuable lessons about the forests they manage. For those with any kind of commercial interest in their woodlot, this free...
The Frontenac Stewardship Foundation (FSF) over the past year has fallen on hard times following significant cuts to the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OMNR) that led to OMNR’s cancellation of the Ontario Stewardship Program. Those cuts...
Over 30 paramedics from the Frontenac Land Ambulance Service attended a meeting of Frontenac County Council last Wednesday. They were there to support Chief Steward, Shauna Dunn, who made a presentation about Council’s recent decision to cut a...
A delegation from OPSEU Local 462, which represents paramedics working in Kingston and Frontenac County, attended a meeting of Frontenac County Council on Wednesday morning, April 17. Before the meeting, Local 462 informed the News that the shop...
At their meeting next week, Frontenac County Council will be considering a bylaw to limit the term of county warden to one year. If the bylaw is approved - and all indications are that it will be - it will not take effect until after the next...
A 270-bed hospital being built in Kingston by Providence Care to provide rehabilitation, complex continuing care, specialized geriatrics, palliative care and mental health services to South Eastern Ontario residents, has been universally welcomed...
David Elyea and Peggy Green, the operators of the new IT support business Frontenac Computers, are now available to deal with desktop, laptop and even tablet computers that aren't working right for any reason. But that is only the beginning of what...
Frontenac County Council met for over five hours on March 8 to work through their 2013 budget, and they devoted most of their regularly scheduled meeting on March 20 to the same topic. Finally, after cutting another position, a part-time finance...
n an effort to stem a continual increase in the cost of running the ambulance service, Frontenac County will be cutting a 12-hour ambulance in the City of Kingston. The cut will relegate four full-time paramedics to part-time status. The cost of...
A couple of years ago members of Lanark County Council decided that in light of a number of high profile incidents in the local community and in the high schools, the County needed to take on more of a role in combating alcohol and drug problems in...
The Eastern Ontario Model Forest (EOMF) is pleased to announce a new project, supported by the Frontenac Community Futures Development Corporation (FCFDC), entitled “Growing Forest Certification in Frontenac County and Beyond”. The focus of this...
County inches close to the budget finish line, and close to minimal tax increase. Frontenac County Council met for five hours last Friday, March 8 to work through their 2013 budget in anticipation of passing the document at their regular meeting on...
Back in the fall of 2012, a proposal by the electoral commission of Canada called for significant changes to the federal and provincial ridings in Frontenac, Lanark, and Lennox and Addington County. In this region the commission focussed on an...
The Land O’ Lakes Tourist Association has formed a new partnership in its efforts to promote fishing as a ‘hook’ in order to entice tourists to the region for all sorts of outdoor activities. “Captured” is a new show that is being produced...
Most of us who own our homes had help getting there. However, not everyone has families or friends with the means to help them buy a home. That's where Habitat for Humanity can help. Habitat builds modest, affordable homes, then sells them to...
It is thanks to the efforts of Frontenac Auxiliary OPP Constable Jeremy Saunders that many residents in South and Central Frontenac have become regular supporters of the local food banks. Saunders began the Frontenac OPP “Stuff the Cruiser” food...
Caitlin Norwich-Stevenson has taken over as the new public education coordinator for the Alzheimer's Society of Kingston Frontenac Lennox and Addington and she is looking forward to serving individuals and families in North, Central and South...
Outdoor rinks in Canada are as much a part of winter life as black flies are to spring here in our region - just that no one would miss the black flies if they disappeared. But the loss of backyard and community rinks would be a blow to many a...
In a signal that rural homelessness was a mere afterthought in the initial planning of a Kingston and Frontenac County Homelessness Plan, three public consultation sessions were planned in November by the consultants preparing the plan, one at...
In a 7-2 vote, members of Frontenac County Council, approved a resolution that reads: “Warden Gutowski has lost the confidence of Frontenac County Council. Warden Gutowski is being asked by Frontenac County Council to immediately resign from the...
The Food Banks in Sydenham and Sharbot Lake both showed increases in usage in 2012, with the sharpest increase occurring in Sydenham. The South Frontenac Food Bank, which is operated by Southern Frontenac Community Services, served 1676 individuals...
In a 7-2 vote, members of Frontenac County Council, approved a resolution that reads: “Warden Gutowski has lost the confidence of Frontenac County Council. Warden Gutowski is being asked by Frontenac County Council to immediately resign from the...
Photo: Map of the Algonquin Landclaim showing proposed provincial park surrounding Crotch Lake in North Frontenac Township. With the release of the Agreement in Principle (AIP) for the Algonquin Land Claim, some details have emerged and some...
After learning at a special meeting last Tuesday that Warden Janet Gutowski is not prepared to relinquish her role after one year, as has been the practice for Frontenac County wardens, members of Council will be challenging that decision at this...
Photo: Frontenac County Warde Janet Gutowski. Procedural bylaw supports her decision, but council is opposed It was a special meeting indeed. Frontenac County Council met on Tuesday December 11, ostensibly to discuss their procedural bylaw. But the...
In a surprise announcement, the Ontario Ministry of Health announced a new initiative last Thursday. “Health Link” is designed to co-ordinate the “care for high-needs patients such as seniors and people with complex conditions” according to...
Photo: The Blue Skies Conmmunity Fiddle Orchestra won the volunteer award in recognition of performing every year at the 12 year old Central Frontenac Festival of Trees. The following people are winners in Central Frontenac’s 2012 Festival of...
