FRONTENAC COUNTY

Photo top left: Along the parade route there was lots of anticipation, then smiles and cheers as the floats made their way through the village.  Photo top right: a group of youngsters catch their first glimpse of Santa in Harrowsmith  A week of...

Photo top left: Along the parade route there was lots of anticipation, then smiles and cheers as the floats made their way through the village.  Photo top right: a group of youngsters catch their first glimpse of Santa in Harrowsmith  A week of...

Back to HomeFeature Article - November 22, 2012 Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal winners In recognition of the 60th anniversary of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, a total of 44 medals were made available to celebrate the achievements of...

All questions to local high schools about the impact of labour actions that were taken this week by members of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers (OSSTF) Federation are being referred to the Limestone District School Board (LDSB). I had a chance...

Photo top left: Prince Charles students placing wreaths at a ceremony at the Verona Cenotaph in McMullen Park on November 9 Photo top right: Seats of honour were set aside for some of the older veterans on a brilliantly sunny and warmRemembrance Day...

Counties differ on electoral boundaries. Residents of Frontenac, Lanark, Lennox and Addington, and Hastings counties will be seeing their federal and provincial ridings change as of the next federal election, slated for 2015. But what those changes...

Denbigh Remembrance Service Remnants of 1939 plane crash in North Frontenac A Poppy for Kent Remembrance Day Poems Denbigh Remembrance Day Remembrance Day ceremonies were held a week early in Denbigh, in order not to conflict with those in Flinton,...

Denbigh Remembrance Service Remnants of 1939 plane crash in North Frontenac A Poppy for Kent Remembrance Day Poems Denbigh Remembrance Day Remembrance Day ceremonies were held a week early in Denbigh, in order not to conflict with those in Flinton,...

Back to HomeFeature Article - November 8, 2012 Pipeline reversal sparks fears of oil spill in Kingstonby Jeff Green Photo: Adam Scott and Claire Malcolmson from Environmental Defence and Peter Hudson from Queen's answering questions Monday night....

Seniors' housing report draws mixed reactions at county At one point during a comprehensive report on the prospects for a county-sponsored seniors' housing pilot project in Frontenac County, Frontenac Islands Mayor Dennis Doyle presaged the ultimate...

Municipal officials receive information about ‘land package’ at closed door meeting On Thursday, October 25, a closed door meeting was held with municipal officials from Frontenac County and Addington Highlands Township at the Sharbot Lake...

Heather Highet, principal of Sharbot Lake High School, reported that staff will be running all of the regular extra-curricular activities at the school. “It is my understanding that the federation has directed staff that their involvement in...

Bussing contracts between Tri-Board Transportation and its 55 contractors for the 2013-2014 school year will be negotiated in the same way they have been in the past. A number of those contractors launched a law suit charging that the Request For...

Unique boundary proposal would create Kingston-Frontenac L&A riding. At the Frontenac County Council meeting on Oct. 17, CAO Liz Savill presented the submission she will be making to the electoral boundary commission for council's approval. The...

Photo: Leslie Myles of Sydenham and managing director of the LLF will be climbing to Base Camp Everest in the 2012 Mt. Everest Climb For Kids to raise funds for school kids locally and globally It will not be the first time that Leslie Myles of...

Mauril Bélanger is one of the few remaining Liberal MPs in Eastern Ontario. He has held the riding of Ottawa-Vanier since 1995, and on October 13 he spoke to an up-beat gathering of 25 Liberal Party stalwarts at the Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and...

On October 12, a group of school bus operators serving students in the Limestone, Prince Edward Hastings, Catholic School Board of Eastern Ontario launched a suit against their employer, Tri-Board Transportation Services, in the Belleville Court....

Editorial by Jeff Green It was several years ago now that Brett Colman, who was then working as a stewardship coordinator with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, appeared before North Frontenac Council. He was there on a recruitment drive....

Photo: Alex Zeller, Michael Enright, Rory Baksh and Peter Young present County's Natural Heritage Study at a public meeting in Sydenham on Oct. 4. Frontenac County presented their newly minted Natural Heritage Study at two public meetings last week....

The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources is ending the Ontario Stewardship Program. The program has provided administrative and staffing support to 46 stewardship councils in all rural counties in Southern Ontario for the past 16 years. In a letter...

Editorial by Jeff Green I don’t usually comment on national news stories, but something caught my attention this week. The story about e-coli in beef produced at a single plant in Alberta did not seem to be of local interest at first. Then it came...

Economic development in a rural region is not a short-term venture. The board and staff at the Frontenac Community Futures Development Corporation (FCFDC) have been working day after day for nine years establishing their own credibility with the...

by Jeff Green Frontenac County to contest electoral boundary proposals In response to a report from Chief Administrative Officer Elizabeth Savill, Frontenac County Council has decided to seek standing at a public meeting dealing with proposed...

Editorial by Jeff Green Ever since the Limestone District School Board announced they were planning to build their new school in the parking lot of the current Sharbot Lake High School, I’ve had a nagging question. Does the proximity of the school...

The Limestone District School Board announced last week that grade 3, grade 6, and grade 9 standardised test results have shown a marked improvement this year. Under the heading “Students show progress in math and language skills” the board...

 by Jule Koch and Jeff Green It was not an auspicious beginning to a meeting in Sharbot Lake for adjacent landowners of the proposed K&P Trail, when right at the start of the meeting, County of Frontenac staff were made aware that they had failed...

Editorial by Jeff Green In one sense it makes very little difference when riding boundaries change. Much of what both the federal and provincial governments do these days is done on a regional basis that transcend both municipal and riding...

Photo: A one-day Emergency First Aid and CPR course at Oso Hall on September 8 Mark Halladay, who owns and operates his own emergency training service, had a full house at Oso Hall in Sharbot Lake on September 8, where 24 members of the community...

Photo: Frontenac County Warden Janet Gutowski (centre) flanked by (L to R) Frontenac County politicians Gary Davison, Del Stowe and John McDougall, Bud Clayton, Allan McPhail, John Inglis, and Dennis Doyle, cutting the ribbon to open the trail. The...

The federal and provincial riding of Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington would be eliminated under a proposed riding redistribution that was released this week, and a northern and a southern riding would take its place. The northern riding would...

Photo: Residents, volunteers and staff at Fairmount Home making fascinators for their upcoming fundraising event on September 12Residents at the Fairmount Home have been busy these last few weeks creating a wide array of products that will be for...

by Jeff Green and the Parham Agricultural Society 1883 and 1893. Those are the years when the Maberly and Parham fairs were held for the first time. It would be an understatement to say the world has changed over that time. In the early years...

Mike Lumb, the President of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario – Limestone (ETFO) and Elizabeth MacDonald, the President of Local 27 of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (OSSTF), both wonder why the provincial...

Photo:  Gordon Thompson of the Greater Bobs and Crow Lake Association was helped up by one of the Stewardship Rangers as part of work bee to spread rocks on Bobs Lake this week for a Walleye spawning bed. Members of the Stewardship Rangers spent a...

Phase 1 of the Frontenac K&P Trail – from Orser Road to Harrowsmith – will officially open with a relay of user groups on Friday, August 31. The relay will begin at 10 a.m. at Orser Road, the K&P’s southern most point in Frontenac County. A...

  So far, it is all about a single insect. The Canadian Food inspection Agency (CFIA) has been looking for emerald ash borers in Eastern Ontario counties for several years. The small green insects feed on ash trees, and in doing so they cause the...

The Algonquin Land Claim, which according to the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs is headed towards the completion of an Agreement in Principle (AIP) by the end of this year, has attracted media attention in Toronto. The claim, which encompasses 1/6...

Photo: Concession 23 at the Flinton Jamboree The 8th Annual Flinton Country Bluegrass Jamboree, which was held from Aug. 3-5, had trailers jam packed at the Flintion Recreation Centre, the official home of this popular event where fans enjoyed a...

This summer, confidential meetings are taking place to apprise municipal officials and some other stakeholders about some specific parcels of land. These lands are to be included in an agreement in principle for the Ontario Algonquin Land Claim, an...

MNR urges “common sense approach” in complying with new rules around grey ratsnake The Frontenac Axis Grey Ratsnake provisions have been added to the Ontario Species at Risk Act. But, as Frontenac County Planner Joe Gallivan indicated at a...

The use of a very modern technology to teach the creation of a traditional prod-uct recently took top honours in Community Economic Development in a province-wide competition.  The Frontenac Community Futures Development Corporation (FCFDC) was...

The Frontenac Community Futures Development Corporation (CFDC) is assessing the demand for commercial, office, retail, and light industrial space within the County of Frontenac. This initiative is being undertaken in response to community...

In last week’s Frontenac County Council article, it was wrongly reported that a bylaw enabling Frontenac County to initiate expropriation proceedings on a piece of land owned by Bob Leonard had been deferred so the County trails committee could...

Public meetings were held this week in Sydenham and Sharbot Lake about the roll-out of high speed internet service in Frontenac County for some of the more remote and hard to reach customers. Jim Pine is the Chief Administrative Officer of Hastings...

The most recent data released by Statistics Canada from the 2011 census shows that not only are fewer people living in Frontenac County and neighbouring municipalities, but also that the median age of the population is getting higher, in some cases...

On May 16, Lanie Hurdle, Commissioner of Community Services for the City of Kingston, and Housing Department Director Sheldon Laidman, gave a presentation to Frontenac County on social housing programs offered by the city, which is the consolidated...

This time, they really seem to mean it. Land Claim negotiators Brian Crane (Government of Ontario), Robert Potts (Algonquins of Ontario) and the new kid on the block, Ron Doering (Government of Canada), said last week that they expect that up to 9...

When Eugene Forsey died in 1991, it created an intellectual void in the Canadian political scene. For 60 years Forsey had been at the centre of labour and constitutional politics in Canada, from the formative years of the trade union movement in the...

A lot of people take an interest in spring weather. Gardeners wonder when they should put their peas in, or if they should start their tomatoes earlier. Road crews watch to see when the roads should be graded and whether half load rules should be...

In spite of the announcement that the Norampac Trenton paper mill will be closing on June 1, there is still hope that a contract settlement will be reached with 137 workers at the plant, which will allow the mill to keep operating, according to Tom...