NORTH FRONTENAC

Here in the Land O’ Lakes, many of us know that water was somewhere else before it comes out of a tap. The real source of water is the watershed - that area of the landscape that gathers all the water together into one river valley and all the...

Maureen O'Higgins and North Frontenac Mayor, Ron maguire Although it isn’t bringing high-speed internet service to as much of North Frontenac as originally planned, the Rural Connections Network is now up and running in Cloyne and the surrounding...

Frontenac Ventures Corporation has not given up on their uranium exploration project in North Frontenac Township, but finding funding for the next phase of drilling is a persistent obstacle. When contacted, Frontenac Ventures President George White...

5 members of the Ambient Woods Creative Collective at their grand opening in Plevna l-r: Gabriela Klessen, Marlene Leeson, Betty Hunter, Annemarie Schonauer, and Debbie Emery This past holiday weekend members of the Ambient Woods Creative Collective...

The Frontenac Stewardship Council will be kicking off an active summer with the presentation of a talk on Climate Change and its potential impacts on the rural lifestyle and landscape at the Clar/Mill Hall in Plevna on June 8 at 7:00 pm. Gary...

Rob Leverty executive director of the OHS spoke of the preservation of cemeteries at the Cloyne and District Historical Society’s AGM Members of the Cloyne and District Historical Society gathered for their AGM on May 17 at the Barrie Hall in...

Maguire does not want to rule out development charges After attending a session on development charges - fees that are tacked on to applications for development above and beyond the normal building and planning fees - Township Clerk Brenda Defosse...

A small but determined group of Ompah residents have been seeking the return of two hours of library service per week to their library. At the same time they are worried that the board of the Kingston Frontenac Public Library intends to close their...

Budget approved in North Frontenac At a public meeting on April 22 preceding the formal adoption of the 2010 North Frontenac budget, Treasurer/CAO Cheryl Robson made a detailed presentation of the budget highlights, including the impact of Education...

Paul Tyrrell, Dawn Parks, Joe Doran and Rob Doran rode 97 km in the Ompah volunteer fire fighters annual Spring ATV run on April 24. The fourth Annual Ompah Volunteer Firefighters’ Spring ATV run took place on April 24. Over 625 participants took...

Five-year-old Dylan Walker, of Plevna and Northbrook, has been fighting cancer since being diagnosed with neuroblastoma on Remembrance Day of last year. His treatments have taken him and his parents to Kingston for months, and now to Sick Kids...

North Frontenac to bring in budget with 2.5% increase in levy North Frontenac Council has completed their budget deliberations and will be approving their 2010 budget after a public meeting next Thursday morning. The budget will include an increase...

The township will clear snow from Crotch Lake Access Road. It's only a short stretch of road, but it has been the subject of much debate on council, and was the spark that led the development of a roads committee that met for over a year. Finally,...

Jasper with his latest find. Sometimes treasure is found by the most unlikely of people, and in this case, it was a dog. Jasper, a four year old Akbash who resides in Plevna, dug up a very old box over the weekend. Jasper is known as an energetic...

Two of the key figures in the development of the Lakeland Family Health Team in Northbrook brought a status report to North Frontenac Council last week. The project manager, Janice Powell from Denbigh, and Kimberly Bain of the Bain Consulting Group...

In the midst of a North Frontenac Council meeting last week Mayor Ron Maguire said that his second term would be his last. “It is my intention not to run for re-election,” Maguire said, “for the simple reason that I want to try something new....

Several years ago the waste sites in North Frontenac were filling up at such a rate that the township was faced with the possibility of shipping garbage away by the middle of this decade. The township entered into a long-term management plan for the...

Over the last two years we have been proactively working with the Ministry of Natural Resources to enhance the fishing habitat for Malcolm and Ardoch lakes. This has involved conducting walleye census in the early spring, enhancing the spawning beds...

Curtis Davison and his grade 6-8 class. The official opening of the new Plevna branch of the Kingston Frontenac Public Library takes place today, February 18 at 2:00 pm, but the branch has been up and running since last Tuesday. On February 12 the...

Some users of the Ompah Library were shocked to find out that library hours there have been cut back. A recent press release announcing the re-opening of the Plevna branch, which was closed over a year ago due to an insurmountable mold problem,...

The Ompah Conservation Association’s (OCA) Fish Hatchery received a healthy dose of community support recently, resulting in the appointment of a new executive board of volunteers early in December. The future of the hatchery became uncertain last...

Council hears from Frank Roy on 1 Metre Initiative Frank Roy made a short presentation recapping his One Metre Initiative proposal for the largest telescope in Canada, which he hopes to build under the dark skies of Mallory Hill, on Buckshot Lake...

One Metre Initiative seeks municipal support –  With one exception, members of North Frontenac Council seem ready to put some municipal money towards a proposed astronomical observatory at the north-west edge of the township. Frank Roy, the...

Back Kevin Hitchcock, Keighan Chadwick, Emma LeBlanc, Jamie Hitchcock, Erica Sortberg, Kelsey Player, Kayla Clinton, Brianna Blight, Buff Chadwick; Front Row: Lacey Henwood, Suzanne Allison, Nicole Hunter, Leah Quenneville Congratulations to the...

Skootamatta Lake Road, north of Cloyne. “If this were happening in Napanee or Kingston, it would be all over the news, but since it is only out here, you don't hear anything about it.” That's how Addington Highlands Reeve Henry Hogg describes...

When all was said and done, more was said than done. Omniglobe Networks has signed an agreement with North Frontenac Township to expand high-speed Internet services in the western part of the township. “High speed internet access will be available...

For the past three consecutive summers the Parham Fairgrounds has been the location of Frontenac, Lennox and Addington’s Relay for Life which, up until now, has been headed by Claire Macfarlane, Chair of Relay for Life for Central Frontenac. In...

Minister pours cold water on NF succession plans The Ontario Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing has responded to a letter from North Frontenac Council that requested leave to hold a referendum on pulling the township out of Frontenac County....

Opposition mounts to Woodcrest expansion Woodcrest Resort has room for 94 campsites (suitable for trailers) on a 40-acre site on Mitchell Bay, Kashwakamak Lake in North Frontenac, and the resort owners have applied to expand their operation by...

Not since the Ompah Stomp weekends in the heydays of the ‘80s has this little hamlet in North Frontenac seen such a successful event. Starting around 8 A.M. on September 26 the streams of pickup trucks, trailers and ATVs started to pour in for the...

Historical society has plans for Cloyne’s 150th. Carolyn McCulloch and Marg Axford brought three issues to North Frontenac Council last week, to warm response. The first was what they have dubbed the “Viking Lodge” project. It concerns a...

The North Frontenac Food Bank Committee would like to thank all the individuals, groups, organizations, churches, schools, and businesses who have given their support to the food bank over the past year, especially during the Christmas season. Even...