FRONTENAC COUNTY

September 1 to October 15, 2023, has been declared Open Farm Days 2023 by the County of Frontenac, City of Kingston, South Frontenac, Frontenac Islands, Central Frontenac, and North Frontenac to highlight the importance of agriculture in the region....

At their regular meeting on July 19, Frontenac County Council adopted a land acknowledgement statement to be read at the beginning of council meetings. As a staff report regarding the proposed wording indicated, the process to develop the land...

(submitted by KFLAPH) Today, Kingston Frontenac Lennox and Addington Public Health announced the upcoming closure of its Sharbot Lake branch office, effective October 27, 2023. The closure of the Sharbot Lake branch office is a result of a...

The normally sleepy July meeting of the Frontenac County Planning and Economic Development Advisory Committee attracted a crowd, at the Verona Lions Hall, last Wednesday morning. The reason for the extra attendance, which prompted a change of venue...

When you Wiki Canada Day it brings you back to 1867 where a Governor General proclaimed we shall all celebrate the Canadian Confederation, or Dominion Day, as it used to be known. By 1982, it was renamed to Canada Day, more aptly titled for the...

Marc Moeys, the President of the Verona District ATV Club, made a presentation to Frontenac County Council in April. Much of Moey's presentation dealt with the activities of the club along the K&P trail between Verona and Sharbot Lake, where the...

Proclamation Council passed a motion proclaiming June 21 “National Indigenous Peoples Day” in Frontenac County Admin building update Chief Administrative Officer Kelly Pender outlined the progress that has been made since the May council meeting...

The Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT) has upheld expropriation process that was followed by Frontenac County in 2022 for two parcels of land in the Robertsville area. The parcels, which are partial lots including the K&P trail and a buffer around the...

In 2019, a review of paramedic service performance and projected call volumes, in Eastern Ontario, was commissioned by Apexpro consulting. Although Frontenac County is a small municipality by population, because Frontenac Paramedic Services (FPO)...

This week, the announcement of companies who have received mini-grants from the Starter Company Plus program had a distinctly northern vibe. The program, which is delivered by the Kingston Economic Development Corporation (KEDCO) for the City of...

As summer is heating up so is the newly established Southeastern Ontario Screaming Eagles U17 Tier 2 Girls Fastpitch team, composed of talented athletes from Kingston, Mallorytown, Sydenham, Harrowsmith, Verona and Sharbot Lake Recognizing that the...

The reconstruction project of the Frontenac County administrative building on the Frontenac County Campus in Glenburnie has been a balancing act from the start. The county offices are located in a grand early Ontario Home, formerly called Fair House...

Much of the conversation at the May meeting of Frontenac County Council (May 16) centred around the implications of some of the changes to provincial rules around land use planning that are part of the government's target of 1.5 million new housing...

At the Kingston Area Secondary School Athletic Association Track meet, which was held on May 18 and 19, a number of Frontenac County student athletes did very well, winning first, second, and third place medals. Sedona Reade, from Sydenham High...

There are a number of constants in the world of gardening: seeds, water, sun, soil. And there are variables many many variables. Are the seeds viable. Is there enough sun, too much sun, enough water, the right kind of soil. And everything changes...

Matt Walker is the Economic Development Officer in North Frontenac. He is the only township based Economic Developer in Frontenac County, and works close with the two member Economic Development department at the County level (Debbie Miller and...

Cataraqui Conservation has issued a Flood Watch today for the Cataraqui Watershed and Gananoque River System, due to the excessive amount of rainfall in recent days, and the increased likelihood of flooding in South Frontenac The Mississippi Valley...

Deborah Krause, Executive Director of the Sharbot Lake Family Health Team, and Dr. Jeanette Dietrich, from the Sydenham Medical Centre and the Kingston Rural Family Health Organisation, made their second trip to the Society of Rural Physicians of...

As part of his monthly Admin report to Frontenac County Council, CAO Kelly Pender presented a slide show of the current state of the office renovation. The images show how what was formerly a large home has been gutted and is being transformed into...

In youth sports the word champions is often tied to success in the win-loss column.  Our U13 Frontenac Flyers have certainly had tremendous success in this regard.  The OMHA provincial champships held in Barrie was the final test for this hard...

At a combined meeting of Frontenac County and the four Frontenac township councils, representatives from the Eastern Ontario Wardens Caucus (EOWC) and the Eastern Ontario Regional Network (EORN) were on hand with updates on the activities of the two...

The Kingston Frontenac Public Library (KFPL) has been working on fine tuning its rural branch hours since the fall of 2021, all leading to a set of changes that will come into effect on May 1st. Feedback was gathered through a community survey in...

The County of Frontenac is excited to announce the development of its Strategic Plan. Frontenac County residents, business operators, and community organizations to participate by attending one of two open houses and to share their opinions via a...

Barb Mundell is the community liaison for the volunteer hospice and bereavement services program that is available to families throughout Frontenac County and Addington Highlands. The program, which is coordinated by Katie Buckley, is operated out...

Frontenac Islands Mayor Judy Greenwood-Speers brought a motion to Frontenac County Council last week, asking for the county’s support. Greenwood-Speers only recently learned, during a meeting with Ontario Ministry of Transportation Officials, that...

Continuing a decade of hockey excellence, once again Frontenac Minor Hockey is sending one of its teams to the OMHA Provincial Championship.   On Wednesday March 8, the U13 Rep Team capped off a great season with a big playoff win against Napanee....

As an emergency room physician and researcher into cardiac arrest and resuscitation, Dr. Stephen Brooks of the Kingston Health Sciences Centre and Queen's, is well aware of a rather startling reality faced by patients when they suffer heart attacks....

Frontenac County announced a $1million investment in paramedic services in the wake of passing their 2023 budget last week, but according to Shauna Dunn, President of OPSEU Local 462, the money is neither new, nor does it address the issues facing...

Brent Fehr and his wife Isabel moved to an off-grid log home, on the Arden Road about halfway between Arden and Tamworth, in 2021. It was a big change for the couple, who were living in the Little Portugal region of downtown Toronto before moving...

Frontenac County Council met for over 8 hours, over two days, between February 8th and 9th, on the 2023 budget. Those sessions were made up of presentations by each of the department heads outlining their service models and spending proposals for...

North Kingston Returns to Kingston & the Islands. When the draft version of the new Ontario electoral map was circulated last summer, the commissioner who designed the new boundaries stuck pretty strictly to designing ridings with a very similar...

Assessment Growth mitigates impact to 7.6%. Frontenac County Warden Ron Vandewal has made 2% his mantra throughout his 8 years as Mayor of South Frontenac. To that end, he has voted against all but one of the Frontenac County Budgets since joining...

In their debate over upgrades to ambulance service in Kingston, Frontenac County Council has opted, as planned, to introduce a new 12-hour shift in Kingston starting in April of this year. As well, in response to a proposal from Chief of Frontenac...

Frontenac County Council received a request for support after receiving a presentation from Dr. Jeanette Dietrich of the Sydenham Clinic and Deborah Krause, the Executive Director of the Sharbot Lake Family Health Team, in late January. And, during...

In advance of the presentation of business plans by each of the Frontenac County departments, the preliminary budget numbers will result in an 8.95% increase in the county levy, if the budget is accepted by Frontenac County Council later this month....

Same venue, same presentation, different group Dr Jeanette Dietrich of the Sydenham Medical Centre, who is also the lead physician of the Rural Kingston Family Health Organization, was joined by Deborah Krause, Executive Director of the Sharbot Lake...

Mild temperatures, partly-sunny skies, not-too-deep snow, and open water on Saturday, December 17 made for an enjoyable day outdoors, for participants in the 2002 Christmas Bird Count in Frontenac County. As one surveyor summarized, “the dove-grey...

Dr.'s Jeanette Dietrich (Sydenham Clinic) and Sabra Gibbens (Verona Medical Centre) as well as Deborah Krause, Executive Director of the Sharbot Lake Family Health Team, made a presentation to South Frontenac Council, at their first meeting of the...

After a December drop-off, all of the indicators on the Kingston Frontenac Lennox and Addington Public Health (KFL&APH) COVID dashboard are pointing to increases in COVID activity in the region. While testing of the general public for COVID ended...

Frontenac County Chief Administrative Officer Kelly Pender prepared a relatively short report, for members of the new Frontenac County Council’s January meeting, about how Bill 23 – the more houses more quickly act – could change the way the...

(As we start a new year here at the News, our 52nd, it is a good time to acknowledge our community reporters. When the “North Frontenac” was first being spit out from a Gestetner in the basement of the Anglican Church Manse back in 1971, the...

The first business meeting of the new Frontenac County Council took place on December 21st. With six new members of Council, three of whom having never sat on municipal council at all before, the new council will be holding an orientation session...

The 2019 review of Paramedic Service needs throughout Eastern Ontario projected a 45% increase in call volume in the City of Kingston, and was the basis for plans for increases in the level of service offered by Frontenac Paramedics in the City....

It's all too easy to feel hopeless in the face of global warming, but Inverary resident Jerri Jerreat recently created a community event that approached this issue from a positive perspective.  She organized a festival of writing and art for...

Impaired Driving On December 8, 2022, just before 8:00 p.m., Frontenac OPP responded a traffic complaint on Hwy 7, Central Frontenac Township. The vehicle was located and as a result of the investigation a 29-year-old from the City of Hamilton was...

With an emphasis on the new, Frontenac County Council members took the oath of office last week at a meeting that was held outside of Frontenac County. Of the eight members who were sworn in, 6 are new to county politics. Half of those are second...

While there were changes in the makeup of all of the mainland Frontenac Township councils after the election in October, the change in the Township of Frontenac Islands was complete. All five members of the council that was sworn in earlier this...

The joys of rural Christmas parades are upon us. The Christmas craft season starts just after Halloween, but it is not until the parade and concert season get underway that the season really kicks into gear. And the joys of a rural parade are many....

On November 11-13, the U11 Frontenac Flyers Rep Team travelled to Pembroke for the Silver Stick Regional tournament where they competed against 10 teams from across Eastern Ontario. The Flyers relied on a team-first approach and utilized their speed...

There's new functionality, new mapping resources, and a whole new selection of useful open data available now on the newly redesigned FrontenacMaps.ca. The site, originally launched in 2010, is the public-facing information portal for the Frontenac...