NORTH FRONTENAC

 On March 24, 2021 Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) East Region Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU), Provincial Weapons Enforcement Unit (PWEU) and the Tactics and Rescue Unit (TRU) executed a search warrant at an address on Victory Lane in North...

North Frontenac Township will continue on with its voluntary septic re-inspection program for 2021 and re-visit a mandatory program that the North Frontenac Lake Association Alliance has been pushing for after a report from the Public Works Manager...

The North Frontenac Lake Association Alliance is encouraged by the decision taken on Friday, March 19 by the Township Council on the future direction of the Septic Re-Inspection Program. Since its partnership with the Township in conducting a Septic...

North Frontenac Council met (online) Wednesday morning essentially to decide how to spend about $420,000. The funds in question ($420,920.92) are what’s left over from the $486,144 the Township received from the Province’s Municipal...

In response to an email request, North Frontenac Council voted to support Bell Canada’s application to expand its all-fibre broadband network at its regular (online) meeting Friday. In a letter to the Township, Neal Hougham, project manager,...

Residents of in vicinity of Mazinaw Lake are advised that personnel from Canadian Special Operations Forces Command will be conducting training in the area of the Mazinaw Lake from 1 to 5 March, 2021. Residents may notice military aircraft, vehicles...

When North Frontenac Council began its 2021 budget deliberations at a special meeting Friday morning (February 19), they were 50 minutes late (technical difficulties) and looking at a 1.81 per cent or $112,240 increase over last year. Some four...

Anyone who takes a drive through the countryside in Frontenac can see that barns, and the remnants of barns, dot the countryside. Sometimes they are the only reminder of the sometimes harsh life led by settlers, who worked the often unforgiving land...

Spurred on by a request from the Shabomeka Lake Association, North Frontenac is initiating an examination of its winter plowing procedures. At its regular (online) meeting Friday, Council heard that there are several locations where parking along...

Vietta Wood was raised in Snow Road Station. When she was young, her father drove a creamery truck to Tweed several days a week. He used to take Vietta and/or another one of his children with him, when they were old enough. “We would jump out of...

North Frontenac Council presented a fairly ambitious agenda package for its regular (online) meeting Friday but at the end of the day, it was pretty much just another business as usual (during a pandemic) affair. The morning started off with a...

The cemetery work North Frontenac Historical Society & Archives began in 2019 continues. In April of 2020 the launch of the Cemeteries & Genealogy section of the website www.nfhistorical.com did not go well. The volume of data overwhelmed the site....

I am excited to report that I have survived my first year of running a full-time Handywoman business, and I love it! I wasn’t sure what to expect, as I’ve never operated my own business before, at least not to this degree. As a certified crochet...

The Community Foundation for Kingston and Area fall granting announcement on December, featured its the largest ever number of grants and a record total commitment of over $400,000. In a release accompanying the grant announcement, the foundation...

North Frontenac Council was joined for its regular online meeting Friday morning by Doug Carr, chief negotiator for the Algonquins of Ontario (AOO) land claim settlement and Jennifer Griffin, senior negotiator for land matters. Carr began his...

It was relatively easy for River Hill farms, who are located off the River Road in North Frontenac, to figure out how to adapt to pandemic protocols and keep providing the lift people need as the Christmas season approaches. In their 7th year, over...

Despite a sometimes shaky setup that was originally hard to connect to and at times difficult to hear (some of the councillors sounded like their telephones were on the other side of the lake), North Frontenac managed to hold its online Council...

Council moved its first order of business outside to view the five new murals which will soon be adorning locations throughout the Township. The murals were done by Jennifer Hunting-Boomhower, Hannah Sabourin, Brian and Leane Bailey, Shiloh Ibey and...

This business, which straddles the boundary between Wards 2 and 3 in our township, is probably best known for its amazing annual Christmas lights show. Over 100,000 lights that blink, sing Elvis songs, light up large maples, and stretch across an...

Early in January of 2020, officers of the Lennox and Addington (L&A) County Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a report of a possible fraud. The individual reported losing approximately $5,000,000 to an investment firm...

Community halls in North Frontenac should be ready for re-opening in the middle of October, Manager of Community Development Corey Klatt told Council at its regular meeting on Friday (October 2). The meeting was a hybrid of in-person and phone-in...

In a year when a global pandemic shut down just about everything we’ve come to expect and attend, the North Frontenac Back Roads Studio Tour became something of an anomaly. It went on, albeit with the fewest number of venues in the past few years...

The North Frontenac Back Roads Studio Tour is on, this weekend September 26/27.  It will be a little different than in previous years, but there are a great variety of artists taking part.  The 12 artists and artisans participating are in 7...

We would like to reassure all our loyal followers that it would take more than a pandemic to bring down the final curtain on NFLT. We've lasted 40 years after all! When the lockdown occurred in March we were forced to cancel the Spring production...

(Editors note - this article was altered from the version that appeared in the prin edition - Vol. 20, no.37 - September 17. the change was made to delete the statement that Councillor John Inglis voted against supporting the Ardoch Lake Condominium...

Thanks to a grant from the Community Foundation for Kingston and Area, an innovative strategy was put into practise this summer by Community Living-North Frontenac. The agency, which works with adults with developmental disabilities in Central and...

As we enter the Fall season in these Covid times, many of us are finding ways to live a more or less full human life while keeping ourselves, our families and our fellow community members safe. A number of the artists from the North Frontenac Back...

Not many people in North Frontenac Township were aware of the existence of CRINS-SINRC (The Canadian Radio Communications Information and Notification Service) before mid August. CRINS-SINRC was formed in 2011 in New Brunswick as an organisation...

Cell gap coverage is a major initiative on the Eastern Ontario Regional Network and has been a priority for the township of North Frontenac for a number of years. A proposed tower in Snow Road could bring cell service to a large swath of the...

The fleet of local Sail Mazinaw boats endured light and variable winds, and intense sunlight on Saturday August 22. This year's crews sailed within their bubbles and without the social contact of previous years. Very few non-Mazinaw boats were in...

In a 5-2 vote against approval, North Frontenac Township Council won’t be giving its recommendation to Frontenac County for a proposed 23-unit vacant land condominium project on Ardoch Lake. The decision came at Council’s regular meeting online...

As much of the province has gradually begun to adopt Stage 3 practices of the Covid- 19 pandemic, so has North Frontenac Fire Departments.  Due to the Pandemic and our North Frontenac’s Community Control Groups recommendation, training events...

Jeff and Jenna Fenwick each run their own businesses out of a picturesque farm property on the Mississippi River off the Gulley Road in North Frontenac. Both businesses, Back Forty Cheese, and Jenna Rose Designs, have felt the impact of the COVID-19...

North Frontenac Township Council is considering more in person events, including its Aug. 14 Council meeting and a public meeting to get feedback on reducing the number of Wards to two from three and a corresponding drop in the size of Council to...

North Frontenac Mayor Ron Higgins is seeking the nomination for the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party for the 2022 provincial election in Lanark Frontenac Kingston, he announced last week on Twitter and through a media release. Prior to being...

Annika Putnam was a grade 11 student, living in Sharbot Lake and attending Sydenham High School, when she applied for the role of rural student trustee with the Limestone District School Board (LDSB) at the beginning of the 2019-2020 school year....

In the current, unprecedented economic climate, some businesses are suffering terribly, others are thriving, and it is hard to know, until you ask, which ones are which. Ange DeFosse has a busy life. She works full time for the Lakelands Family...

North Frontenac Mayor Ron Higgins, who at one time counted himself as a supporter of MPP Randy Hillier, announced last week that, in the wake of a recent tweet by Hillier, he now “believes that the style of politics coming from our provincial...

North Frontenac Council met for three hours online Friday morning that included a 15-minute interruption to deal with Mayor Ron Higgins’ connection that suffered from echo issues. The connection was good enough for Sally McIntyre, general manager,...

Ever since the Province of Ontario decided that campgrounds and resorts could start accepting visitors. A whole group of people across the region sent from nervously waiting and wondering if they were going to have any business at all this summer,...

The Mazinaw Lake Swim Program has been in operation since 1972 when it was formed by local parents after the drowning of two local youth.  This program has provided vital swimming and water safety instruction to local youth for generations.  It is...

For the staff, backcountry camping enthusiasts and the Friends of Frontenac Park, it is like Christmas has come at last. As of June 1st, canoe and hike in camping at the 48 sites in the Park is a go. Many of the sites had already been booked for...

North Frontenac Township Council could have two fewer members after the 2022 elections if Mayor Ron Higgins has his way. Council held its regular meeting Friday morning “electronically” on the Webex platform whereby residents and media were...

North Frontenac Township Council held its regular meeting Friday morning “electronically” on the Webex platform whereby residents and media were invited to listen in via telephone. The result was rather confusing at times, both in terms of...

The events for North Frontenac Historical Society & Archives that involve community gatherings are on hold, but there is much being done from the home of the Board and Committee members. The organization has applied for Charitable status designation...

Larry and Kim Trenwith are supporters of Pine Meadow Nursing Home, and when they heard that the Pine Meadow Classic golf tournament had been cancelled, they worried that the special needs fund at the home would be facing up to a $20,000 shortfall...

North Frontenac Council held its regular meeting Friday morning with Mayor Ron Higgins, Clerk/Planning Manager Tara Mieske and Treasurer Kelly Watkins in the Council Chambers. The rest of Council and staff members participated via Webex conferencing...

During normal times, food banks use means tests, and they have protocols to make sure that their limited capacity can stretch far enough to support people that need the help. In the covid-iverse, however, when the priority is for everyone to stay...

An Op-ed submitted by North Frontenac Mayor Ron Higgins During this unprecedented COVID-19 global pandemic, it is testing the leadership capabilities of many leaders in this country. As a municipal leader in North Frontenac I am no exception. Every...

Since retiring three years ago to the the home they’ve owned on Lake Mississagagon for 40 years, John and Tory Grindrod have become snowbirds, spending their winters in Sarasota Florida. Normally, they take their time when going to and from...