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by Julie Druker and Jeff Green Flinton Country Bluegrass Jamboree Bill White and White Pine It was an all-in-the-family extravaganza of local talent at the sixth annual Flinton Country Bluegrass Jamboree on Saturday and crowds over the weekend...
15-year-old singer Jessie Treneer of Kingston took home the Championship award at the FOTMC Now in its third year, the Frontenac Old Time Country Music Championships is attracting more competitors, guest artists, music enthusiasts and local sponsors...
Council rebuffs expanded transportation study – Steve Carol and Ken Becking, engineers with Jewell Engineering, made a presentation to Frontenac County Council concerning a proposed comprehensive transportation study for the county. The study...
After failing to get a court injunction to stop the dismantling of the six Canadian prison farms (two of which are located in Kingston), and the imminent sale of the Frontenac Institution’s 300-head dairy herd, members of the “Save Our Prison...
Irwin Babcook with a cement marker made for the farms' centenary. It was a matter of luck for Irwin and Jerry Babcook to be able to find a couple of hours in a late July morning to talk to me about their family farm. But all the June rain had given...
Every neighbourhood and every little town has one. They might run the store, work in the post office, or work at a local social services agency. They’re the one person that knows who does what. Once you know who that person is, it saves a lot of...
For the second year in a row, Sydenham High School and North Addington Education Centre in Cloyne have achieved certification as Eco-Schools. But while SHS received a bronze certification in 2009 and NAEC received gold, this year SHS was golden, and...
Guess who? Two Dollies make a Larry sandwich at the Frontenac Community arena fundraiser. (l-r) Beth and Terry Freeland and Nancy Lansdell Close to 250 supporters of the Frontenac Community Arena gathered for a good old-fashioned Saturday night of...
Jeff Peters of NFU local 316 organizes marchers at Sunday’s rally in Kingston With the looming closures of six prison farms across the country, over 800 people gathered at a rally at the Sydenham United Church in Kingston on June 7 to hear a...
“We don’t believe it when they say it’s a done deal,” said Brigit Doherty, one of the organizers of a rally that is taking place in Kingston on Sunday to try to convince the federal government to save and revitalize Canada’s six prison...
Planning special of the year – Trout sensitivity à la Catch 22 Four Bridgen's Island landowners are seeing their entire investment go to nothing because of provincial environmental regulations. Bridgen’s Island is a horseshoe-shaped 16.5...
Editorial by Jeff Green Sometimes transparency is misconstrued as manipulation. As an observer of the Program and Accommodation Review Committee (PARC), which spent eight months deliberating about the future of the schools in Central and North...
Frontenac County sees energy production as economic driver Frontenac County Council is looking to the wind farm on Wolfe Island as the catalyst for the county to establish itself as “the alternative energy capital of Ontario”, according to...
Frontenac County Council put themselves, and County staff, through a kind of push and pull exercise throughout the month of February. The result was a change in the tax levy to ratepayers from the 2% increase that was in the draft budget to a net 0...
Back row: Emma Leblanc, Brianna Blight, Keighan Chadwick, Buff Chadwick (trainer), Jamie Hitchcock, Kevin Hitchcock (head coach), Randie Hollingsworth and Mark Hollingsworth (assistant coach). Front row: Lacey Henwood, Suzanne Allison, Nicole...
Local community learning centres in Sydenham, Hartington, Sharbot Lake and Northbrook are solving some of the problems people have when trying to improve their skills and education. One solution is a partnership with Ontario colleges for E-learning...
Frontenac County Council had been planning to finalise its 2010 budget this week, but Frontenac Islands Mayor Jim Vanden Hoek threw a bit of a spanner into the works. While the overall tax levy number as prepared by county staff was within an...
Another year, another request from Pine Meadow; same result Bud Clayton, the Chair of the Management Committee for Pine Meadow Nursing Home, which is owned and operated by Land O'Lakes Community Services, made a presentation to Frontenac County last...
FSA president Tracy Holland presents an award to past volunteer Morris Leroux The Frontenac Soccer Association (FSA) decided for the first time this year to honour the many community volunteers whose efforts have allowed the sport to grow from just...
As Frontenac County Council goes through a line-by-line consideration of their 2010 budget next Monday, January 25, they will be facing a draft document that includes only a minimal 1.94% ($164,000) increase in the amount of money that is being...
Prince Charles Public School in Verona, North Addington Education Centre in Cloyne, and Sharbot Lake Public School, are three of 600 schools from across Ontario that will be offering full-day learning, five days a week, for four and five-year-olds...
County resolves governance issue Frontenac County Council has ended an 18-month-long process by selecting a new governance model. An eight-member council, with the mayor of South Frontenac carrying two votes, will be in place after municipal...
The Frontenac flyers went into Sunday night’s (Nov. 1) game against the Picton Pirates hoping to nail that elusive first win of the season. The Flyers’ offence came on strong in the 3rd period scoring two goals but it was too little too late to...
Sue Leslie, Jane Drew, Deborah Andrews, and Dean Walsh slipped quietly into the back of the room at a Frontenac Council meeting a week or so ago (October 27). They were a bit nervous, and they had every reason to be. Sue Leslie, Executive Director...
