NORTH FRONTENAC

Stuff The Cruiser Food Drive In Sharbot Lake On Saturday April 9, 2022, members of the Frontenac Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Auxiliary OPP and the North Frontenac Food Bank had a great success for the "Stuff the Cruiser" food drive. Over $1...

“The Township should be proud, you do well,” Stephanie Reeder, senior project manager, Cambium told Council at its regular (online) meeting April 8. Reeder was addressing Council for the purpose of giving the annual update on waste sites....

Coun. John Inglis’ desire to see some sort of tax deferral program for small businesses and private residences has waned somewhat since he gave notice of motion to have it reach a North Frontenac Council meeting agenda a month ago. “I got the...

After getting no takers on their request for proposals to build a five-unit seniors apartment complex in either Plevna or Cloyne, North Frontenac Council decided to pull the plug on the entire project at a special (electronic) meeting March 21. Most...

Jim Meness has been a member of the Pikwakanagan First Nation Council since 1999. Apart from all of the other duties of council members, members of the Pikwakanagan Council are also Algonquin Nation Representatives (ANR) who sit at the Algonquin...

With Deputy Mayor Gerry Martin in the chair for the absent Mayor Ron Higgins, North Frontenac Council began its regular (online) meeting Feb. 25 with three public meetings — a zoning bylaw amendment, amendments to the Zoning Bylaw as it pertains...

North Frontenac received its 2022 draft budget for information at a special (online) Council meeting with very few changes meaning the tax hike in 2022 will be 3.64 per cent or $229,744. The actual budget will likely be passed at the regular Feb. 25...

Weaving our way along the snow lined roads through Parham, Tichborne, and Sharbot Lake, there was a stillness in the woods and on the lakes, as the previous night’s snowfall had gently layered the roadways with a fresh white coating. We were on a...

“I got a call from a senior and he’s homeless through no fault of his own,” Coun. Fred Fowler told North Frontenac Council at its regular (online) meeting Feb. 4. “A lot of people don’t have money to buy into the market and a there’s not...

We are excited to announce that we will be reopening our weekly Saturday riverside destination with new and improved amenities as we launch the area’s first commercial outdoor wood fired kitchen.  Using traditional cooking techniques, we will be...

(Editors note – this article was edited after the version that was included in the January 27 print edition of the Frontenac News was printed) The post office at Ardoch has been closed by Canada Post since January 17, and customers who have...

At their regular council meeting on Friday (January 14), some members of North Frontenac Council expressed their concerns about an initiative that Mayor Ron Higgins is taking on to review the land use planning process that governs what kinds of...

The Ontario provincial election is still 6 months away, but all of the major parties have now selected their candidates in the Lanark Frontenac Kingston riding. On Sunday evening (December 12) after extending voting for 6 hours to accommodate n...

Employee compensation was front and centre at North Frontenac Council’s regular (online) meeting Dec. 10 popping up at three places in the agenda. “Generally, North Frontenac is competitive to the market comparators on aggregate for employee...

Cheryl Robson started her municipal career in 1988, after working for the federal government for 10 years. “I found a home in the municipal world. It is always changing. You work directly with other people on community problems, deal with local...

After over 18 years “coming alongside” seniors in the central and northern parts of Frontenac County, Catherine Tysick has resigned from Rural Frontenac Community Services (RFCS). When she started at what is now RFCS, it was called Northern...

There won’t be any Tuesday hours at the Mississippi Waste Site this winter, North Frontenac Council decided at its regular online meeting Nov. 19, despite Coun. Fred Fowler’s best efforts to reinstate them. At this year’s May 7 meeting,...

North Frontenac’s long service Chief Administrative Officer Cheryl Robson is set to retire at the end of the year, but will remain with the township until the summer of 2022 on a contract basis. North Frontenac Mayor Ron Higgins made the...

At its regular (online) meeting Oct. 22, North Frontenac Council voted to accept the Frontenac Municipal Services Corporation — Business Case Study final draft which will now be posted on the Frontenac public engagement site for 30 days to allow...

When Phyllis Webstad was six years old, she was taken from her family in British Columbia and placed in a residential school, where they took away an orange shirt she was wearing. The shirt had been a gift from her grandmother. Now, almost 50 years...

North Frontenac Council decided to investigate a partnership with Central Frontenac Township for some seniors housing opportunities after a request for proposal to build and operate a five-unit seniors facility in Cloyne or Plevna received no takers...

Holding a studio tour and exhibition during a pandemic has become old hat for the Backroads Studio Tour. For the second straight year, the 25 artist/artisans opened up 13 venues that drew a steady line of people looking to get out of the house on...

This September, the North Frontenac Back Roads Studio Tour will be going ahead for the 8th consecutive year. Last year the Tour took a chance and went ahead in spite of Covid. The route was a little shorter than usual with artists showing in fewer...

Following two public meetings (one in-person and one on-line) on the subject, North Frontenac Council passed a resolution at its regular meeting Sept. 10 to “leave the Ward boundaries and Council composition the same.” “I hope this puts this...

North Frontenac Council’s regular (online) meeting was a rather uneventful affair, with a couple of delegations and a rather jarring shortfall budgeted to remediate the mould issues at the Ward 2 Shop. Public Works Manager Darwyn Sproule advised...

It took several years to get to this point, but on Saturday evening, the 16” Fred Lossing Telescope officially became part of North Frontenac’s Dark Sky Preserve. About 50 people were present for the official ribbon cutting (many of whom left...

Between an in-person meeting held in Plevna at 9 a.m. on Saturday morning and an on-line meeting that followed at 11 a.m., all of the public participants had the same thing to say ‘don’t fix what ain’t broke.’ The meetings were organized to...

Residents and visitors will get their first chance to get a look at the 16” Fred Lossing Telescope Saturday, Aug. 14 from 7-9 p.m. at the North Frontenac Dark Sky Preserve (5816 Road 506) with the official opening of the North Frontenac...

The 85% vaccination target in Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington is now 7 weeks away, after only 750 people received their first dose in the region during the week ending on Sunday, August 8. Just two weeks earlier, over 1,500 were getting...

It all started in a small rural schoolhouse in Mountain Grove, when a group of parents and concerned citizens held a meeting to discuss how their children were going to get an education as well as to strive for society acceptance and inclusion. That...

It might not be on the top of too many lists of thing to look forward to in 2022, but there will be a municipal election in October of next year. And for a municipal council to make changes in the makeup of municipal wards or the composition of the...

North Frontenac Mayor Ron Higgins was the first one in to the race to replace Randy Hillier as the standard bearer for the Ontario Conservative Party in the provincial election that will take place next spring, and he is the first one out. “I have...

Citing a “significant decrease in new cases of COVID19 across the province, the successful vaccination rollout and only 3 cases in the township since the onset of the pandemic,” North Frontenac Mayor Ron Higgins lifted the township’s COVID19...

In order to keep the community updated on the progress with the cemeteries in North Frontenac we have prepared this summary. The research that has been accumulated over the past several years is in a format presentable to the public and you will...

Established in 1976, the Snow Road Snowmobile Club, one of the few surviving club houses in the Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs’ organization, built a new club house in 1978 right at the border of Frontenac County and Lanark County. It...

When you read the word ‘library’ what comes to mind? A lot of you probably envision a building full of books – after all, that’s how libraries began, and for a lot of people, that’s still the draw of a public library. Working at the...

Although there were 32 ‘document takers’ when the Request for Proposal (RFP) was initially issued, when the deadline came June 24, there were no formal proposals submitted to build a seniors residence in North Frontenac, consultant Ken Foulds...

For Canada Day 2021, the Malcolm and Ardoch Lake Landowners Association (MALLA) did not celebrate with their annual boat flotilla. Using a suggestion from Glen and Lynn Fowler, the executive organized an event to honour the First Nations missing and...

On June 30th, two family-owned school bus companies from North Frontenac, Dunham Transportation and Cox Transportation, sold out to Martin's Bus Lines of Napanee. The timing of the sale was no coincidence, as contracting for bus routes throughout...

If the early season drought conditions continue, “we’re going to have some serious and candid conversations about supplying Carleton Place (metro area population 30,000)”, Sally McIntyre, general manager of the Mississippi Valley Conservation...

(NORTH FRONTENAC TOWNSHIP, ON.) - Members of the Frontenac Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are investigating a fatal collision. On June 4, 2021 just after 5:30 p.m., officers responded to a single vehicle in the ditch on County...

This spring, an issue arose in North Frontenac regarding access to Benny Lake, a small lake in Cloyne. Mr. Philp owns property on the lake, and after completing a survey of his property, it has become clear that the boat launch that has been used by...

Nowhere was the need for better broadband service more evident than in North Frontenac Council’s regular (online) Friday, during which several spotty connections during the middle of the meeting made things nearly incomprehensible even to the...

Submitted by Mississippi Valley Conservation Proposed provincial regulations governing conservation authorities (CAs) will remove visitor amenities such as parking lots and trails from the core mandate of CAs. Doing this will remove their...

Central Frontenac Council awarded a $743,529.49 (before HSt) contract to Gemmills Sand and Gravel for the reconstruction of Ardoch Road at its regular (online) meeting Tuesday. The proposed work includes (but is not limited to): • Remove and...

A Municipal Services Corporation (MSC) is the recommended model for the delivery of communal water and waste water developments across Frontenac County, a representative of WSP Consulting told North Frontenac Council at its regular (online) meeting...

Blue Skies in the Community (BSIC), the outreach arm of the 48 year old Blue Skies Music Festival, has received an anonymous donation of $10,000 to help the music community during the COVID-19 pandemic. The BSIC committee has decided to provide 10...

The North Frontenac Lake Association Alliance (NFLAA) is an organization that includes 20 cottage, lake and road associations in a township whose population skews heavily to waterfront residents. While there are 1,932 full time residents living in...

Frontenac County is preparing to complete the Clarendon Station to Snow Road Station portion of the K&P Trail, Richard Allen, manager of economic development, told North Frontenac Council at its regular (online) meeting Friday. “I’m going to...

A couple of weeks ago a group of residents in the Cloyne are approached Ken Hook, a former Reeve of Addington Highlands, with a concern about a property that is located in North Frontenac. The property is an access point to Benny's Lake, which is...