NORTH FRONTENAC

In a 5-2 vote, North Frontenac Council decided to join the Frontenac Municipal Service Corporation at a special meeting June 20 in Plevna. Coun. Wayne Good and Vernon Hermer voted against. The Municipal Service Corporation (MSC) is a utilities...

Canada Day – July 1st 11 am – 6 pm Back Forty is excited to announce the details for their 6th annual summer food festival. What started in 2016 as a small celebration to mark the opening of their newly renovated cheese factory, has since grown...

“Our purpose here today is to see if North Frontenac wants to join (Frontenac Communal Services),” Frontenac County CAO Kelly Pender told Council at its regular meeting June 9 in Plevna. Spoiler alert: North Frontenac Council turned down the...

The issue of Short Term Rentals (STR) won’t seem to go away and accounted for a substantial portion of the discussions at North Frontenac Council’s regular meeting May 19 in Plevna. In fact, the topic occupied two items on the agenda. First up...

It’s been known as the Star Gazing Pad, Dark Sky Pad, Dark Sky Viewing Area, Dark Sky Preserve and simply the Observatory. But following North Frontenac’s April 28 regular meeting, the property at 5816 Road 506, will be known officially as the...

As directed in an August, 2022 resolution, economic development officer Matt Walker presented the results of a business survey and a community survey to North Frontenac Council at its regular meeting April 6 in Plevna. The surveys were held online...

“You’re in good shape and managing them (your waste sites) well,” David Bucholtz, director of environmental services with Cambium Inc. told North Frontenac Council at its regular meeting March 17 in Plevna. “You’re in very comfortable...

Frontenac Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers are investigating after several shots were fired at two motor vehicles in a remote part of North Frontenac. On March 12th, 2023, at 12:00 p.m., OPP responded to a weapons complaint on Schooner Road...

It looks like the levy increase for the 2023 taxation year in North Frontenac will be 3.85 per cent, Council decided at a special meeting March 3 in Plevna. When the 2023 budget process got underway on February 16, staff came in with an increase of...

While there are numerous large Maple Syrup producers in North Frontenac and Lanark Highlands, the best known is Wheelers, on Highland Line near McDonalds Corners. That is because of the pancake house and maple syrup museum that has made 'Wheelers' a...

After a long public meeting on a potential rezoning of a property in Cloyne, an information session on electric vehicles and a presentation on the services available from Frontenac Business Services, North Frontenac Mayor Gerry Lichty pulled the...

Plevna was the place to be Sat, Feb 25th! The Township of North Frontenacs 2023 Winterfest was so much fun!! Neighbours throughout the Community gathered to celebrate and it was delightful! Some extra parking was moved over to the library to make...

North Frontenac began its special budget Council meeting Feb. 16 looking at a 4.81 raise in tax dollars to be levied in 2023. That represents $6,847,969 or an additional $314,427. By the end of a rather long day, Council and staff had whittled that...

Looking to break the February Blues? Visit the cheese shop and explore the Back Forty on Saturday February 18th and celebrate the Family Day weekend. Enjoy the outdoors with some great food, drink, and fun filled winter activities. With multiple...

“Asset management is a journey, not a destination,” North Frontenac Treasurer Kelly Watkins told Council at a special meeting Feb. in Plevna to go over the Township’s 10-year Capital Plan. The meeting began with a report from Public Works...

You know it’s budget time when outside agencies and such show up at council meetings looking for money. Such was the case Feb. 3 at the North Frontenac regular Council meeting in Plevna. First up was Joe Gallivan, director of planning and economic...

It was fitting that Bethany Armstrong was one of the presenters at a joyful gathering at the Clarendon-Miller Hall in Plevna last Saturday. The arrival of diplomats Velislava Panova (Consul General of Bulgaria in Toronto) and her colleague Oana...

A proposal to create a family-based cottage cooperative on Palmerston Lake at Ompah (Lafolia Lane) led to a two-hour-plus public meeting before North Frontenac Council’s regular meeting Jan. 13 in Plevna. Speaking for the proponents, planner Tracy...

(As reported elsewhere in the paper, Lee Anna White died last week, just before here 108th birthday.) Back in 2015, when she was not yet 100, we interviewed her as part of our Frontenac County 150th anniversary coverage. That article is reprinted...

The Dec. 16 regular North Frontenac Council meeting began on a sad note, with Mayor Gerry Lichty asking for 30 seconds of silence in memory of Councillor Gerry Martin, who died of cancer the day before Former Coun. Vernon Hermer will be sworn in at...

(Editors note: Gerry Martin died on December 15, the day this article was published in the Frontenac News. Our condolences to his family and friends) Very soon after being re-elected for a third term on North Frontenac Council, Gerry Martin received...

In the summer of 1877, the battle for control of Pleven, a city in Northeast Bulgaria, had been raging for months. By the end of the summer, three phases of the battle had already taken place, each more bloody and costly for both the invading...

The Snow Road Snowmobile Club has been able to arrange for passage along the E trail to connect with the Ontario snowmobile trail network this winter. Last year, the trail was closed from Sharbot Lake north, along the 4 season K&P trail, as there...

Stephanie Lemke of Riverhill Farm on River Road, the site of a beloved spectacular Christmas Lights display, with over 150,000 lights this year, was planning to expand the canteen this year to include full meals, but after two years dealing with the...

The Gerry Lichty era in North Frontenac officially began Nov. 21 in Plevna with the inaugural meeting of the new Council under new Mayor Gerry Lichty (who defeated Ron Higgins in the recent municipal election). The meeting began with the playing of...

Details are still being worked out, but two of the property owners who had put up gates to block a section of the K&P trail in the Robertsville area, (south of Snow Road) say they have come to a tentative agreement to open up the gates and allow...

The K&P Trail development is intended, in part, as a boon to tourism related businesses along its path. But disputes with landowners in North Frontenac who own parts of the trail have delayed its completion. And the fallout from those disputes is...

Ron Higgins walked into the North Frontenac Township office last Monday Night as a two term mayor, secure in his role in the township and in the building. The mayor is not the boss in that building, that is the role of the chief administrative...

The Kashwakamak Lake Association (KLA) was finally able to gather for the first time in 3 years at Fernleigh Lodge to enjoy the KLA fall dinner and Charity auction on Saturday September 17. The weather cooperated with a beautiful day and blue skies....

First, a bit of background. In 2013, $337,500 was tentatively allocated to each of the four Townships in Frontenac County to be used for seniors housing. To date, only Frontenac Islands has followed through on such a plan. Central Frontenac has a...

At their meeting last week (September 21) Frontenac County Council decided, reluctantly, to defer a decision on what will become of $337,500 that was allocated in 2014 as seed money to create a senior's housing project in North Frontenac. North...

For those that love artisanal crafts, I highly recommend heading out for the North Frontenac Back Road Studio Tour. Each year, there is a set route that normally circles from highway 7 up towards Mississippi Station and then loops through Ompah...

For the past several years, Covid 19 saw a marked decrease in outdoor activities that people were involved in. Now that things have opened up, the Dark Sky Preserve has seen a renewed interest and usage. This past August we had an event for the...

21 artists living and working in North Frontenac Township are hoping for another successful Studio Tour this year. It will be held on the weekend of September 24/25, between 10 and 4 each day. The North Frontenac Back Roads Studio Tour has happened...

Short Term Rentals are a growing business in rural Ontario. A report on Short Term Rentals (STR), prepared by politicians from North Frontenac, was presented to a working group comprising politicians from North and Central Frontenac and Addington...

With no business introductions, presentations, delegations or business arising from the minutes, the agenda for the Sept. 2 North Frontenac Council meeting was rather light. However, like any Council meeting, there were items that needed to be dealt...

The Alt Rock band Mountain Head put on their annual charity concert for boaters at Kash Lake in North Frontenac last weekend. Our reporter, Kelli McRobert, attended virtually thanks to drone imagery provided by the band, and then interviewed the...

North Frontenac will not be buying in to the Frontenac County Municipal Services Corporation. When the vote came up at the regular Council meeting of the township on Friday, August 12, the 6 member council was split down the middle, and a tie vote...

The regular meeting of North Frontenac Council last Friday (July 15) began on a sombre note. Mayor Ron Higgins asked his fellow councillors, staff and public in attendance to “take a moment to contemplate our colleague Fred Perry’s time on...

Calling all creative kids! This July 25th-28th, Snow Road Theatre Day Camp is back! If you love to sing and dance, make up stories, or put on a show, this day camp is an opportunity you won’t want to miss. This summer, the camp will be moving from...

Fred Perry was born and raised at Myers Cave, and like so many others of his generation he left the region for career reasons. But after a long tenure with Bell, he returned to North Frontenac when he retired. In 2005, he was appointed to council...

North Frontenac Historical Society & Archives Where are they? They are not in the registered cemeteries. They were in North Frontenac in the early days. Are they infants who died at birth? Are they those who succumb to cholera, Spanish Flu or...

While the May 21 storm is a fading memory for some, it is still an active issue in the lives of those who were most impacted. There are still people without power in North Frontenac. Hydro One says they hope to have that remedied by the end of June,...

It has been over a month since nominations opened for this fall’s municipal election. With a provincial election winding down, and almost 3 months to go before nominations close in late August, there has been no real rush to bring signed...

A Derecho is a phrase used by meteorologists to describe a “widespread, long-lived windstorm” that is accompanied with thunderstorms. Derecho, which means 'straight ahead' in Spanish, is distinguished from hurricanes and tornadoes because the...

North Frontenac Council decided to contact Central Frontenac for an update on its seniors housing project and their feelings about North participating in it at its regular meeting May 20 in Plevna. “I just wonder how long it’s going to take for...

Spirits were soaring at GREC Monday afternoon at the Foodbank Fundraising Challenge reveal with NAEC.  The excitement could be felt as students gathered in the gym for an online reveal with students from NAEC. An astounding $11000 plus was raised...

Last week, Dave Doran, the acting President of OPSEU/SEFPO Local 462, which represents Paramedics who work for Frontenac Paramedic Services, made public OPSEU's concerns over the level of ambulance service being offered in Kingston and Frontenac...

Nawar and Mike Hage have followed an unusual career path; from Beirut to Vancouver to Abu Dhabi to Myers Cave in North Frontenac. And, like everything else these days, COVID played a role as a catalyst. Mike is a Civil Engineer by trade, and Nawar...

North Frontenac Township buildings need about $6.6 million worth of work done over the next 10 years, according to a Building Condition Assessment study done by John Kirkpatrick and Deirdre Roe of McIntosh Perry and presented at the April 29 Council...