FRONTENAC COUNTY

The rate of first doses being administered in the Kingston, Frontenac Lennox and Addington (KFL&A) has decreased steadily in recent weeks at the same times as the rollout of second doses has picked up steam, and Public Health is now responding. The...

In early June, an anonymous report that was released on Twitter alleged that members of the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation, and others who are associated with the Indigenous Studies department of Queen's University, have no legitimate claim to their...

Frontenac Business Services (formerly Frontenac CFDC) is in the process of rebuilding the Food and Beverage (FAB) Region website and social media to tell the story of Frontenac food and beverage producers and their products. This marketing...

Kingston Frontenac Public Library’s popular Reading Buddies program is expanding to serve more people in our communities. Previously, teen volunteers nurtured kids’ literacy skills through in-person, one-on-one reading support and literacy...

The former General Wolfe Hotel is a ramshackle clapboard structure whose first sections were built in the 1850's and has been added onto and renovated many times since then. “It is like a little village unto itself” said its co-owner, the...

Among the good news about vaccination rates in Kingston Frontenac Lennox and Addington (KFL&A), Public Health has identified a gap. As of Friday (June 24) the first dose vaccination rate of 25-40 year-old KFL&A residents is not only lower than older...

Frontenac County Council members were split over their response to a report which, based on a comparison with 10 similar county governments, recommended increases in compensation for council members after the municipal election next fall. The report...

Members of Frontenac County Council were joined by local council members, from the Frontenac townships, at a virtual meeting last Wednesday (June 23) to hear a report from project managers from Rogers Communication. Rogers was the winning bidder in...

The South Frontenac Lakes and Trails festival started up in 2017. Over its first three years it developed a following, and became a great way to celebrate the Cat Trail, Sydenham Lake, and the storied history of Sydenham. Then came 2020, and even...

The Frontenac Business Centre (formerly known as the Frontenac Community Futures Development Corporation) is bringing back a program that they ran a few years ago, in conjunction with Hastings, Prince Edward and Lennox and Addington Counties. The...

Krecklo and Associates, a municipal consulting firm, has prepared a report that will be considered at the monthly meeting of Frontenac County Council, which takes place this week. The report provides an analysis of compensation,for members of...

In a web ceremony, Kingston MPP Mark Gerretson (who represents the riding of Kingston and Frontenac Islands), and Renfrew MPP John Yakabuskie (representing the government of Ontario), gathered virtually with the 4 Frontenac County mayors and CAO,...

(Book a spot at Vax Clinic on June 17 at GREC) Three weeks ago, in the wake of a COVID-19 outbreak at a construction site, that was causing the largest number of cases in the region over the entire pandemic, Dr. Kieran Moore, the soon to be former...

Kingston Frontenac Public Library users can now borrow Chromebooks as part of the library’s technology and device lending program. KFPL is offering 10 Chromebooks, supported by the Cameron & Laurie Thompson Fund with the Community Foundation of...

Dr. Susan Stewart, the chair of the Kingston Frontenac Lennox and Addington (KFL&A) Community Drug Advisory Committee, asked Frontenac County Council to endorse a call for decriminalisation of people who use drugs, a position the Community Drug...

“It is happening, we are planning ahead for it,” Alison Vandervelde said of Open Farms, the signature annual event for the Frontenac County Economic Development Department. Open Farms was well attended, and received, in its inaugural year, 2018,...

Joe Gallivan, the Manager of Planning Services for Frontenac County, recalled a recent call that was received at a township office in the county recently. An urban refugee who had just bought a lakefront property phoned to find out how to arrange...

With the current pandemic still an issue for the coming months, it is not recommended that we venture too far from home this summer season. But luckily, Frontenac County and its neighbouring areas have many attractions we can enjoy. As a relatively...

Vaccination rollout to slow down in KFL&A over the next month, Moore indicates. Late last week, 89% of the oldest and most vulnerable residents of Kingston Frontenac Lennox and Addington (KFL&A) had received at least on dose of vaccine, and Dr....

A spike in cases in the Queen's University district of Kingston has been the main cause of an 81 case surge in the City between April 5 and 12, but South Frontenac Township has seen 5 new cases over that week as well, making it one of the worst...

It was a great day for Hastings County. The Federal and Provincial Ministers of Infrastructure, Catherine McKenna and Laurie Scott respectively, along with Hastings, Lennox and Addington MPP Daryl Kramp, and Mayors from a number of Hastings and...

COVID outbreaks at Queen’s University in Kingston and at Land O’Lakes Elementary School in Mountain Grove caused concerns in recent weeks, they seem to be resolving without resulting in significant community transmission, if any. The 5 cases...

The Eastern Ontario Regional Network (EORN) will be partnering with Rogers Communications in EORN’s Cell Gap Project to vastly improve cell phone coverage from Renfrew to Kingston to Peterborough. In an online meeting announcement, which included...

The excitement was palpable on Monday morning at a township fire hall just south of Sharbot Lake as Frontenac Paramedics, Central Frontenac Township and Sharbot Lake Family Health Team staff were getting ready for the first of 155 Family Health Team...

Providing Community Services to Seniors has been a challenge for Catherine Tysick, who is the Manager of Adult Services for Rural Frontenac Community Services (RFCS). She helps organize a basket of services that are aimed at engaging the senior...

(Update to the following - subsequent to the media panel that was the source of the information below, the News has learned that the pharmacy pilot project in KFL&A  will be expanding beyond the initial ten locations that were originally envisioned...

The easiest way for Frontenac County residents to get vaccinated against COVID-19 will be to use the provincial booking system and then make an appointment at the vaccination centre at the Invista complex on Gardiners Road in Kingston, which opened...

Last month, Frontenac County Council agreed to invest $38,000 in a year-long process to develop a Destination Development Plan for Frontenac County. Working with the two provincially mandated regional tourism organisations (RTO's), that are active...

It was almost 10 years ago when Mike Nolan, Chief of Paramedic Services in Renfrew County, was invited by then Frontenac Paramedic Services Chief Paul Charbonneau, to make a presentation to Frontenac County Council about community paramedicine....

*Covid willing. Just about a year ago, in early March, the announcement was about to be made that a team, based at the Frontenac Arena. would be joining the one year Eastern Ontario Super Hockey League (EOSHL). The new team would be bringing...

Back in the summer of 2018, the day the “cows came home”, to Joyceville Penitentiary, was a good day for Liberal Party politicians and the activists in the Save our Prison Farms organisation. After the Harper government decided to close the...

A process that has been crawling along for half a decade is about to reach the final decision point before Frontenac County tax payers will be burdened with construction costs  to renovate the Frontenac County Offices. The offices are located in a...

Driver Charged After Collision On February 10, 2021 shortly after 11:00 p.m. an officer from Frontenac Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received a report of a collision on Ardoch Road in North Frontenac Township, Ontario. As a result of the...

UK variant has arrived, prompting new measures. Residents at the Pine Meadow Nursing Home in Northbrook were offered the Pfizer-Biontech vaccine on Saturday (January 23) and 92.5% of the residents in the home took up the offer and received their...

In November of last year, the Tri-Board Student Transportation initiated a Request For Proposal (RFP) process for the awarding of contracts, to deliver students to schools, with the Limestone, Hastings-Prince Edward Public School Boards and the...

Bonita McCourt, the Director of Community and Family Services with the Salvation Army in Kingston, briefed Frontenac County Council at their January 20 meeting about the delivery of homelessness prevention services in Frontenac County. The Salvation...

350 Kingston, an advocacy group of Kingston residents, dedicated to the fight against climate change, kicked off their virtual winter speakers series, Turning the Tide on Climate, on Monday night (January 25), with a talk about agriculture and...

Frontenac County has been working with the Eastern Ontario Regional Network (EORN) on “the gig project” a long-term project aimed at providing very high speed Internet – 1,000 megabits per second to residents throughout Frontenac County....

It is common for South Frontenac Mayor, and 2021 Frontenac County Warden, Ron Vandewal to beg off Frontenac County meetings that extend into the afternoon because he has to pick up students from Sydenham High School and drive them home. And even...

Frontenac County and the City of Kingston were at loggerheads for over a year over increases in the bill that Frontenac County sends to Kingston for delivering paramedic services and operating Fairmount Home, the County owned long term care facility...

Francis Smith just completed her third one-year term as Warden of Frontenac County. “The first time I was Warden was the amalgamation year back in the 1990’s, and that was a difficult year. The second time was more of a normal year, but this one...

Many Canadians who live, work or regularly spend time in cottage country still don’t have sufficient access to fast, reliable internet service, according to University of Guelph researcher Dr. Helen Hambly. With more Canadians fleeing the cities...

Ian Shelley, of Blackline consulting, presented the broad strokes of a report he prepared for Frontenac County, to a meeting of Frontenac County Council on December 16. His review of the delivery of economic development across Frontenac was paid for...

Saying he was “ticked off” when his submissions to a municipal modernisation review process in the summer of 2020 were not reflected in the final report, North Frontenac Mayor Ron Higgins presented some of his ideas in the form of a councilor...

The Kingston Frontenac Public Library Board unanimously approved the Chief Librarian’s recommendation to permanently eliminate late-return fines on all library materials in 2021. “Hundreds of libraries across North America have already taken...

Fairmount Home management   learned last evening that one resident of Fairmount Home in Frontenac County has tested positive for COVID-19. They are receiving all necessary treatment under the care of Fairmount’s medical team. They have been...

(Editors note - This article has been update with current information) Starting in 2009, many of the school bus consortia in Ontario responded to a directive from the provincial government to establish a competitive process for busing contracts by...

(This article has been updated with Friday, December 11 numbers) There have been 14 confirmed cases of COVID-19 confirmed in South Frontenac since Monday, but 3 of them might be mis-assigned Wolfe island cases, based on postal code information....

Changes to the way Conservation Authorities (CAs) are governed is slated to change the watershed-based approach they take, allowing for more centralised provincially controlled decision-making, if measures that were inserted into the Ontario budget...

School bus operators serving residents in Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington and Hastings Counties for Tri-Board Student Transportation Services, who have been hailed as essential business operators for the role their companies have taken,...