FRONTENAC COUNTY

For vehicles speeding along Road 38, Godfrey is merely an intersection with two or three businesses on one side of the road and the Westport Road on the other. However, not only was it once the location of a major stop on the K&P rail line because...

As the days grow shorter, Grownup Storytime is back, still in digital form until KFPL branches resume in-person programming.  Relax at home and listen to a couple of short readings over Zoom from noon until 1 p.m. every Monday from November 9...

When the Eastern Ontario Wardens Caucus (EOWC) began meeting early in 2000's, their main purpose was to form a lobby group in order to secure more provincial funding for highways and other fixed infrastructure, in the wake of provincial downloading...

On October 29, 2020, at approximately 10am officers of the Lennox & Addington (L&A) County Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and other emergency crews responded to a report of a two vehicle collision on County Road 506 in North...

 On Monday morning, (October 19) the government of Ontario released a statement saying that Ontario residents living in areas of the province that are under modified stage 2 restrictions (Ottawa, Peel, Toronto, York Region) should not send their...

“I haven’t even looked at the county budget,” said South Frontenac Mayor Ron Vandewal, on Monday of this week (October 19). “We are going to have two days of presentations from each department so I will have a good chance to see it.”...

As countries around the world led the way, Canada prepared for the second wave of COVID-19, and in late September the numbers of cases jumped in both Ontario and Quebec. Still, aside from a number of cases associated with the return of Queen’s...

The County of Frontenac is now accepting nominations for the 2020 Access Award. The deadline for nominations is 23 October, 2020. The nomination form is available here. The County of Frontenac, in partnership with the Frontenac Accessibility...

The Frontenac County Community Development Advisory Committee (CDAC) met on October 8 with two consultants from Blackline, a Toronto based consulting firm which is conducting an Economic Development Service Review for Frontenac County. The...

The Lennox & Addington (L&A) County detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) has now laid charges in connection with an intentional collision on Highway 41 in Addington Highlands Township on September 27, 2020 around 1:00 a.m. A red Dodge...

On September 26, 2020 at approximately 10:30 p.m., officers of the Lennox and Addington (L&A) County Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were on general patrol on County Road 41, in Cloyne Ontario. Police observed a vehicle stopped in...

There is a small map of Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington at the bottom right hand side of the Kingston Frontenac Public Health COVID-19 cases dashboard on their website. If you float your cursor over South, Central, and North Frontenac, the...

In an odd twist, Frontenac County Council will consider a staff report at their monthly meeting this week, which recommends appointing the county's highest paid employee, Chief Administrative Officer Kelly Pender, as the interim weed inspector for...

Officers of the Lennox and Addington (L&A) County Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) initiated an investigation into an incident over the weekend of September 4, 2020. The OPP are appealing for the public's assistance in identifying a...

Normally at this time of year, young rural and farm folks would be carefully tending to their animals as they prepare for their Achievement Day at the Kingston Fall Fair, which normally would be held this coming weekend in Kingston. However, in the...

Local Municipalities will be receiving funding support from the “Safe Restart” program that is being funded by the provincial and federal governments. The fund was created to help municipalities cover financial burdens resulting from the...

Back in February, Alison Vandervelde of the Frontenac County Economic Development department was working of the County office in Glenburnie, starting to put together the schedule for third annual Open Farms event in early September. “I thought it...

The centre of hockey life for Frontenac County youngsters in 2020 will be Tamworth. When the Frontenac Arena announced it would not open in 2020 because its ice making system could not survive another year before being replaced, the league executive...

Ten days ago, the bar and meeting room (bottom floor) of the Sydenham Legion, opened up for members only, after being closed since mid-March. Rentals in the hall upstairs are set to restart soon (see page 7). Up in Sharbot Lake, the Legion also...

I first heard about the Frontenac Challenge a few years ago. As a seasoned camper, the challenge to hike Frontenac Provincial Park’s 11 loops and 160 km of trails between September 1 and October 31 intrigued me. I hit the trails and quickly...

After spending a month determining all the necessary protocols for re-opening, during the COVID-19 pandemic, and announcing and opening date, the Frontenac Community Arena will not be opening for the 20/21 season after all. And it has nothing to do...

“Bill,” (not his real name) has 20+ years of public school teaching under his belt, the vast majority of that as a full-time teacher for the Limestone District School Board. During his tenure, he has primarily taught the lower primary school...

The Council of the City of Kingston unanimously endorsed a proposal by Mayor Bryan Paterson to end a dispute with Frontenac County over how much the city is billed annually to cover its share of costs to run land ambulance services and the Fairmount...

The Frontenac County Economic Development department has conducted its third business survey since the onset of COVID-19. The first was in early April, the second in late May, and the third was completed on August 3rd. “Even though the surveys all...

The Community Foundation of Kingston and Area (CFKA) partnered with Community Foundations of Canada and the federal government to invest $116,000 in local charities late last month. Among the agencies and groups receiving grants, over $56,000 went...

KFL&A Public Health has been posting short, Youtube videos to answer questions about the rules that they have put in place to deal with the social and economic opening up after the COVID-19 lockdown. Most of the videos feature Dr. Kieran Moore,...

When the Province of Ontario announced on Monday that most regions in the province would be entering phase 3, the reopening phase after the COVID-19 shutdown, it created some openings for businesses to resume more or less normal operations. But, at...

On July 11, 2020 shortly before 9:00 p.m. officers from Frontenac Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) as well as Central Frontenac Fire and Frontenac Paramedics responded to a single motor vehicle rollover on Long Lake Road near...

At the beginning of March, Susan Brant was feeling pretty comfortable for someone who was taking on a new job in an industry where she had never worked before. That’s because she wasn’t really leaving the organisation where she already had a...

A Level 1 Low Water Condition has been issued for the Quinte Conservation Watershed including the regions of the Moira, Napanee, and Salmon Rivers as well as all of Prince Edward County.  Despite higher than average water levels on the Bay of...

(Note - there were new cases reported over the weekend (July 4-5) including the 13th and 14th Frontenac County cases, the first since early May) (Note - on Friday 5 new cases were confirmed, all contacts from existing cases. "This was expected,...

There are always a lot of unknowns for school boards each year, as they navigate the narrow space between Ministry of Education directives, their contractual relationship with teachers, educational assistants and support staff, and the needs and...

Mask wearing is the order of the day at all indoor commercial businesses, daycares and churches in Kingston Frontenac Lennox and Addington (KFL&A). Last Friday (June 26) Doctor Kieran Moore of KFL&A Public Health issued an order under section 22 of...

Over $176,000 in project grants have been awarded by the Community Foundation for Kingston & Area (CFKA) from its portion of the Emergency Community Response Fund. The grants will help local charities support vulnerable Canadians during the COVID-19...

Dr. Kieran Moore, the medical officer of health for Kingston Frontenac and Lennox and Addington, told the News on Tuesday that he is “not seeing the amount of people wearing masks in grocery and LCBO stores as I would like to see” as he...

by Amrit Kaillon In 1987 on a warm sunny Sunday afternoon two girls were playing in their favourite park in London, England.  The girls were competing to see who could swing the highest when a group of white men approached the fenced playground. ...

Last Wednesday, the family of respected Kingston artist Shirley Hulley made their weekly 'window-visit' to her at Frontenac County-managed Fairmount Home. Since the Covid-19 lockdown, they have been unable to enter the building, but fortunately...

Last week, the Addington Highlands Public Library started offering curbside pickup of library materials. Today, the Kingston Frontenac Pubiic Library, which operates 9 branches in Frontenac County: Storrington, Sydenham, Hartington, Parham. Sharbot...

Click here for the details At first blush, the annual BioBlitz at Wintergreen Studios seems like one of the many 2020 events that was destined for cancellation. The five-day celebration of the peak of spring growth takes place throughout the...

The Frontenac Community Futures Development Corporation is a federally funded business development corporation, and they are administering a new loan program called the Regional Relief and Recovery Fund (RRRF). The RRRF was put in place to address a...

In a letter to Frontenac County Warden Frances Smith, that was released late last week, Kingston Mayor Bryan Paterson expressed how surprised he, and his council were, when what they saw intended as a gesture of reconciliation had been rebuffed by...

(NORTH FRONTENAC TWP, ON) - On May 9, 2020 at approximately 7:30 a.m. officers of the Lennox and Addington (L&A) County Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a report of a single motor vehicle collision on County Road 506 in...

Last Friday (May 1st) Frontenac County Council met in special session to receive a report that was prepared by Dr. Kieran Moore, Medical Officer of Health for Kingston Frontenac Lennox and Addington (KFL&A). The report details how the KFL&A region...

As part of their effort to tailor supports for Frontenac County businesses to the new normal, as it is being called, the Frontenac County Economic Development Department is running their second monthly COVID-19 Business Impact Survey. Results from...

(Editors note - this article has been updated from the version published in The Frontenac News on April 30, to reflect the announcement by South Frontenac Township on April 30 that all Canada Day Festivities in the township have been cancelled for...

It was, to all appearances, a gesture of good-will towards Frontenac Paramedic Services by Kingston Mayor Bryan Paterson. A couple of weeks ago, during a Twitter broadcast, Paterson announced that he would be bringing forth a motion to Kingston City...

Members of National Farmers Union Local 316 were planning to hold an event to celebrate the purchase of trees to be planted on the farmsteads of its members as a climate change mitigation initiative this week, but that couldn’t happen. Instead...

As the COVID-19 response carries on, the role that members of both the Frontenac, and Lennox and Addington, Paramedic services play, is changing as well. Thanks to the paramedicine program that Frontenac Paramedic Services (FPS)established in late...

Dr. Azim Kasmani of Kingston Frontenac Lennox and Addington (KFL&A) Public Health, is pleased with “how seriously the residents in the region have taken to the challenge of maintaining social distancing. In a telephone interview on Tuesday, he...

There is more than one virus in the region ․ As we all work to keep COVID-19 from spreading (with some success – see - Planking indeed in KFL&A) communities across the region have seen an idea take hold, community pantries. In mid March, the...