FRONTENAC COUNTY

Photo: Joan Cameron, chair of  SFCSC Building projects and serving the elderly were central to the presentations at the annual general meetings of both Land O'Lakes Community Services (LOLCS) and Southern Frontenac Community Services (SFCSC) last...

After meeting with representatives from the Independent School Bus Operators of Ontario (ISBOA), Ontario’s Minister of Education, Leona Dombrowsky, has placed a six-month moratorium on a new 'Request For Proposal' bidding process for school...

Pam Musson is a director with the Ontario Ministry of Education who is playing a central role in developing funding models for childcare in the province in the coming years, and she delivered the keynote address to the Northern Frontenac Community...

Photo:  John Smigielski of Mazinaw Lanark Forest Inc., John Kittle, Paul Lehman, Stewart Fast and Joe Hendry at the Renewable Energy Expo in Cloyne Experts and suppliers of renewable energy and equipment gathered at the Barrie Hall in Cloyne on...

Northern Frontenac CommunityServices (NFCS) and the Rebekahs and Odd Fellows of Harrowsmith are working together to offer a county-wide video dance, 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. at the Frontenac Arena, 4299 Arena Boundary Road in Piccadilly just north of...

Photo: Mayor Janet Gutowski, Dave Smith and Gale Chevalier with the defibrillator The North Frontenac Telephone Company head office in Sharbot Lake is the latest Frontenac County recipient of a Public Access Defibrillator, thanks to the efforts of...

Scott Reid was re-elected for the fifth time as MP in Monday Nights election, the fourth time in the Lanark Frontenac Lennox and Addington riding. This time he received his highest vote total, 33,756; highest percentage of the total vote, 57.25%;...

Customers of Omniglobe Networks fixed wireless Internet service in the Mountain Grove/Arden and Plevna/Cloyne regions have been in limbo for the last two weeks after the company went bankrupt. Omniglobe had received grants from two programs to...

Photo: Verona family (Jackson, Debra and Thomas) survey wind storm damage to their home The damage was apparent all over Frontenac County as winds in excess of 100 km an hour were reported throughout the area on April 28. Numerous power outages...

Residents and businesses in the Mountain Grove, Arden, Plevna, and Cloyne areas, including schools and the North Frontenac Township Office lost their Internet service on Saturday (April 23) when Omniglobe Corporation ceased to exist after declaring...

Budget finalised Frontenac County Council staggered to the finish line and approved the 2011 budget at their regular monthly meeting last Wednesday, April 20. By taking advantage of some uploaded social service costs, the county will decrease the...

Conservative - Scott Reid Green - John Baranyi Independent - Ralph Lee Liberal -Dave Remington NDP - Doug Smyth Conservative - Scott Reid The first question that came to mind when interviewing Scott Reid is what motivates him to seek term after term...

The Kingston Frontenac Public Library has a new board of directors in place after municipal elections last fall. Over the next four years the board will oversee the operations of the library and will also be faced with some challenges related to the...

By Jeff Green County budget to lower overall municipal tax increase A series of changes to the draft Frontenac County budget has resulted in tax decreases for ratepayers, which will counter some of the tax increases that are coming from the local...

Photo: Scott Reid and Randy Hillier at Oso Hall “One way to guarantee a beautiful Sunday is to schedule an NDP meeting,” said Kathy Hutchins of the Lanark Frontenac Lennox and Addington (LFL&A) NDP Riding Association as she introduced the...

The Frontenac Community Futures Development Corporation held their annual business breakfast at the Verona Lions Hall to celebrate the successes of local businesses, many of which have benefited from the Eastern Ontario Development Program (EODP)....

Members of Frontenac County Council met for three and a half hours last Wednesday March 30 in an effort to wrestle down the $45 million 2011 County budget. When all is said and done, council's deliberations will likely lead to a marginal increase in...

by Jeff Green and Julie Druker Smooth sailing for Frontenac Transportation Service at county – budget debate set for next week Executive directors Don Amos of Northern Frontenac Community Services (NFCS) and David Townsend of Southern Frontenac...

Photo:  Frontenac Islands Mayor and County councilor Dennis Doyle, County Warden Gary Davsion, and Frontenac Islands Township Clerk Terry O'Shea Wolfe Island made it to the top five in the race to be crowned the 2011 Kraft Hockeyville and in doing...

Toddlers in Harrowsmith and Parham will be eligible for all day kindergarten when they reach school age in the fall of 2012. The Limestone District School Board announced last week that the early learning program would be extended to the local...

County preliminary budget Frontenac County Council will have their first look at the 2011 budget this week at an all-day meeting at the County offices in Glenburnie. Although the budget calls for some increased spending in various departments, the...

Photo: Seniors’ advocate Christine McMillan In an effort to get feedback from the grass roots on the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care's recommendations for rural and northern health care for seniors, Christine McMillan, who is on the board...

The Canadian Press has reported that Omniglobe Networks filed a notice last week with the office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy Canada. Omniglobe Network has provided fixed wireless Internet service in parts of North and Central Frontenac. The...

Photo: Gary Clarke “Sustainable tourism” just happens to be the fastest growing sector of tourism today, and in an effort to develop a county-wide strategy for sustainable tourism, a first workshop put on by the Frontenac Arch Biosphere Reserve...

The National Farmers Union (NFU) Local 316 (Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Counties) has actively promoted the strengthening of the local food system in the Kingston area for several years. Its current project, The New Farm Project, assists...

Planning Department in the offing? When Frontenac County completed its Sustainability Plan two years ago a decision was made to hire a manager to oversee projects that county council approves as the plan moves forward. Under the heading of...

Photo: Meagan Balogh When Frontenac County completed an Integrated Community Sustainability Plan (ICSP) a couple of years ago, Gray Merriam, who was then the Chair of the Frontenac Stewardship Council, brought the first sustainability project...

Central and South Frontenac townships are both coming into the modern age when it comes to waste management. Both townships have held committee meetings over the past couple of years to design new processes for dealing with different streams of...

For many seasonal businesses wintertime is down time, a chance to step out of the cycle. It can also be the time of year when there is an opportunity to take a long-term look at a business and think about making improvements, or think about starting...

The Adult Day programs that are offered in Sydenham and Harrowsmith by Southern Frontenac Community Services (SFCS), and in Parham and Sharbot Lake by Northern Frontenac Community Services (NFCS), all have spaces available right now and are looking...

Call it what you want, “hillbilly heroin”, “oxy” or “OC”, Oxycontin, a time-release formulation of the opium-based painkiller oxycodone, has been identified with an addiction problem that crosses age and socio-economic boundaries. It...

Frontenac County to keep Green Energy task force alive Frontenac County will be renewing the mandate of the Green Energy Task Force, while taking care to integrate its efforts with other sustainability initiatives the county is undertaking. The task...

Davison returns as warden It took a bit longer than it has in the past to swear in the members of Frontenac County Council at their inaugural meeting on December 15, 2010, because even though one new member of council was sick, there were still...

One of the first official acts of the newly elected warden of Frontenac County was to officially launch the public version Frontenac Maps, marking a coming of age of sorts for the Global Information Systems (GIS) project in Frontenac County. Now...

Editorial by Jeff Green When Frontenac County Council meets next week, it will be a much different body than the one that met one month ago. The two most experienced members of that four-member council of mayors will be gone, and the two remaining...

Editorial by Jeff Green Two weeks ago, Kingston General Hospital (KGH) awarded its food contract to a company that will prepare individual plates of food in Hamilton and ship them to Kingston to be reheated. Local food advocates and even Kingston...

BIOLOGY SENSORS AT SHS: Biology students at Sydenham High School (SHS) will be able to do a lot more hands-on science thanks to a $5,000 grant from the Limestone Learning Foundation (LLF). The science department has a number of SPARKS mini-computers...

At a presentation in Flinton that was hosted by the Land O’ Lakes Tourist Association, representatives from the new Ontario Highlands Tourist Organization (OHTO) introduced themselves to some local tourist operators and outlined some of the first...

Members of the public and various representatives from the townships and local organizations attended a public meeting at Oso Hall on November 18 concerning the Municipal Housing Strategy for the City of Kingston and County of Frontenac. Consultants...

Remembering their war years By Julie Druker Photo: WWII Veterans Art Goodfellow and Ken Hollywood reminisce at the annual Veteran's Dinner at the Sharbot Lake Legion Art Goodfellow and Ken Hollywood were just two of 18 veterans who attended the...

The County of Frontenac wishes to invite community members to our second phase public consultations on the Municipal Housing Strategy currently under joint development by the City of Kingston and the County of Frontenac. The Municipal Housing...

Photo: Steve McNevin, Cam McCauley and Mike Allan With the growing frequency of elk sightings in the County of Frontenac, hunters in these parts may soon be aiming their scopes their way - that is, if the MNR's proposed one-week elk hunt in Ontario...

OMPAH AMBULANCE BASE/FIRE HALL “I'm very disappointed with the way this project is being carried out,” said North Frontenac Mayor Ron Maguire when a report by Paul Charbonneau about the Ompah ambulance base/North Frontenac fire hall was brought...

Addington Highlands – Incumbents lose in Ward 1 By Jeff Green Most of the candidates for council in Addington Highlands, along with acclaimed Reeve Henry Hogg, had gathered in the council chambers at the Flinton Rec. Centre by 8 p.m. on Monday...

The Township of North Frontenac has asked Frontenac County to consider making changes to its plans for the construction of a fire hall/ambulance base in Ompah. The project, which is jointly sponsored by the county and the township, with each paying...

This edition marks the end of our municipal election cam-paign coverage, with the publication of candidate profiles for South Frontenac, Addington Highlands, South Sherbrooke Ward of Tay Valley Township, and Ward 6 (Elphin-McDonalds Corners) of...

Twenty-year study for Highway 7 between Peterborough and Kaladar Consultants from the Ministry of Transportation (MTO) made a short presentation to Frontenac County Council on September 22 last week, introducing a long-term study that is designed to...

Loughborough, Sharbot Lake and Clarendon Central Public Schools, and Sydenham High School have been recognised with HEAL awards for the first time by the Limestone District School Board at their September 8 meeting. The HEAL Award recognizes schools...

Davison/Vanden Hoek on County Roads – Don’t ask for money from townships. In July members of Frontenac County Council put a stop to a comprehensive transportation plan, at a cost of over $100,000, which was proposed by County Sustainability...

Over the past few years many individuals and businesses in Frontenac County have invested in solar panels to heat their water or to produce power for the Hydro grid as part of the MicroFIT program. Others have invested in geothermal heating systems...