SOUTH FRONTENAC

On February 8, 2019 at 3:00pm, officers from the Frontenac Detachment of Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) attended an address in the Harrowsmith, ON area after receiving a report of a 14-year-old who took a family member's vehicle without consent. As...

The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Frontenac Detachment is investigating a collision on Sand Lake, west of Frontenac Provincial Park. Frontenac OPP officers responded at approximately 1:00am. on February 17, 2019. A pick-up truck had been driven...

South Frontenac Council approved a 2019 budget of $19,741,688 at its regular meeting Tuesday night in Sydenham. This represents a 3.199 per cent increase over 2018’s budget of $19,129,719, however, it falls in line with Council’s direction of a...

The Golden Links Hall in Harrowsmith was packed with friends, family and well-wishers as Portland Dep. Fire Chief Bill Babcock officially retired Saturday night. “Everybody knows that anyone who volunteers for 54 years — your heart has to be in...

South Frontenac’s Volunteer Fire Department is launching a recruitment drive this month, hoping to attract 25 new recruits from throughout the township. They are looking for physically fit, energetic men and women who are interested in becoming...

Thursday, Jan 24th was the official grand opening of Jeff’s – a new local neighborhood lounge in the Holiday Country Manor in Battersea.  Jeff’s boasts good food and a cozy atmosphere, topped off with a wood-burning fireplace that throws a...

At its regular meeting Tuesday night in Sydenham, South Frontenac Council approved a noise bylaw exemption for the Inverary Youth Group on June 1 and 2 to hold a Spring Fling Music Festival fundraiser. South Frontenac resident and owner of Little...

The first-ever Verona Lions Vendors Market kicked off last Saturday with 10 vendors and they already have 11 confirmed for the next one in Feb. 23. They have markets planned for March 23 and April 17 as well. The markets run from 8 a.m. til 2:30 p.m...

There is a new South Frontenac Council, but the instructions to the Treasury department and the various department heads within the township has not changed with turnover. The target for a budget increase for township delivered services remains at a...

For about 10 years now, Trinity United Church in Verona has been holding “wake-up” breakfasts on Saturday mornings in January and last Saturday was no exception. “This is our third this year and the last will be Feb. 2,” said Anne McDougall,...

Participants parents and staff of New Leaf Link (NeLL) react happily to the news that their program has just received $20,700 from from the United Way’s Community Investments fund. NeLL began ten years ago when a small group of parents met...

(Editors note – Marjery Smith sent in the following, with a view towards clarifying some aspects of the article that appeared in the Frontenac News on January 10 on page 1. Once she got started she ended up writing about the entire history of the...

More than 100 people braved the cold Saturday to help the Bob Richardson Branch # 496, Royal Canadian Legion, Sydenham celebrate its 70th anniversary with a hot lunch and speeches. “We’re doing quite well,” said President George Kish, a Legion...

It’s become something of an annual event. Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston MP likes to celebrate his Scottish ancestry on or around Robbie Burns Day by bringing a haggis to various locations in his riding. Last Sunday, one of those locations was the...

Last summer South Frontenac Councillor Ross Sutherland lodged a complaint about Council’s in camera discussions of litigation on Sydenham’s water treatment plant. The essence of Sutherland’s complaint, according to the report that came out as...

Eleven Delegations or Submissions for 2019 Budget A wide range of largely volunteer-run non-profit programs asked for financial or in-kind support from Council. These included: New Leaf Link, a South Frontenac-based program providing fully...

“Selling edibles isn’t legal yet, but if you want to make your own, it’s OK,” SSgt. Sharon Brown told the SALT lunch Friday at the Grace Centre in Sydenham. “So no bake sale brownies, OK?” In fact, Brown used humour to make many of her...

The Frontenac Park Christmas Bird Count took place on an unseasonably warm day on December 15th. There were a record 59 participants out enjoying the weather this year, 53 field surveyors and 6 bird feeder watchers hiked 85 kilometres of...

With the exception of July and August, there’s country music at the community centre in Sunbury. It’s been going on for 17 years, although it’s really been going strong for the past 10 years or so. “The lady who started it off was Margaret...

Local Environmental Protection Councillor Sutherland brought forward a motion to express South Frontenac’s “concerns that the current approval and regulatory process for development does not adequately protect our lakes and wetlands and does not...

Frontenac Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) would like to remind members of the public that regardless of where you live; to lock your home, garage and vehicle.  On 6 January 2019, the OPP responded to 12 reports of unlocked vehicles that were...

A “frost quake” which occurred in the South Frontenac area Monday Jan 07, at 2:36 pm has been verified by Dr Alex Braun, of Queen’s Department of Geological Sciences at Queen’s. In the Perth Road area, it sounded like a loud explosion...

On January 19, 2019, Bob Richardson Branch #496 of the Royal Canadian Legion will celebrate the 70th Anniversary of its founding Charter. The Branch is named after Private Robert Miles Richardson, a Sydenham resident born in 1874, and who joined the...

Sculptor Stefan Duerst likes teaching. That’s probably why he accepted a position as artist-blacksmith teacher at Sir Sanford Fleming College. But he also enjoys teaching kids and as such, his studio at the Godfrey Sculpture Park has become a...

For many years, the lighting of the Christmas tree in McMullen Park in Verona was an annual tradition. Many people can still remember Ross Clow up on a trailer, singing Christmas carols and strumming his guitar with bare hands in the frigid cold....

The meeting began with Deputy Mayor Sleeth being sworn in. Ad Bag Delivery Contributing to Roadside Littering Last meeting, Mayor Vandewal gave notice of a motion that ad bags should not be permitted to be tossed along the roadsides. This was...

(BATTERSEA, ON) - On the 10th of December, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. Frontenac Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) attended an address in the Battersea area for a break and enter to a garage. The vehicle owner was away for the weekend and parked at the Hwy 15...

Storrington Lions Club is giving the gift of sight this Christmas. Located on the eastern edge of Frontenac County, the club donated $5,000 to replace an aging biometry machine at Hotel Dieu Hospital in Kingston. It is one of the biggest donations...

On December 13, representatives from H’art Centre, Rotary Club of Kingston and Empire Life gathered at Fairmount Home to celebrate the “Go Wireless” pilot project with Fairmount Home’s leaders, recreation staff and residents. Five Smart TV...

The underlying seriousness of this event necessitated the addition of a third judge this year. They were impressed with the overall effort and creativity which had definitely been ramped up from last year’s excellent productions! One thing the...

Outside, there were huge snowflakes falling and cars were parked all along Road 38. Inside Prince Charles Public School, there was the hustle and bustle of the 13th annual Holiday Market, a cooperative effort between the school’s parents council...

South Frontenac Council began their COW meeting an hour early, in order to hold a closed Session prior to the main meeting. The four agenda items for the closed session were listed as:”Litigation; Matters concerning an Identifiable Individual...

Mark McDonell loves his job. In a coffee shop earlier in November, the talented father of two talks with awe about his work as a professional musician. “I don’t take it for granted,” he said, “I’m from a small town and I didn’t have a...

Edna Webb was quite young when she gave birth to Jennie, her first child, at home on Little Franklin Lake near Perth Road on December 6, 1918. WWI had just ended, and horse power still ruled on the roads. The Webb’s - George, Edna and baby Jennie,...

Deputy fire chief says he's being pushed out Bill Babcock, Deputy Fire Chief in Portland, addressed Council about his pending retirement: “I feel that I am being forced to retire: some of my duties have been removed, and I signed my agreement (to...

Annual Christmas Bird Counts began in North America in 1990. It is North America’s longest running citizen science project. Results from the counts, which are conducted between December 14 and January 5 each year, are compiled by Bird Studies...

Sydenham opened the local Santa Claus parade season last Saturday with the most parade participants ever. For a photographer, the best place to start is at the firehall while the parade is being assembled. Excitement is high, nobody’s chilled to...

Watching helplessly as a child slips into frigid water under a broken ice shelf is a parent’s worst nightmare. Speaking in Sydenham on a Sunday on Sunday, (November 25), Rob Pasch talked  about the device he has invented to counter the danger of...

Being this year’s recipient of the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Association’s (OFSAA) Leadership in School Sport Award wasn’t something Sydenham High School’s Leslie Lawlor was expecting. “I was surprised,” she said. “But...

In Sydenham on November 24th at 10:21 a.m. Frontenac Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received information from a member of the public of a possible impaired driver in the Sydenham Santa Clause Parade. At 10:32 a.m. the suspect vehicle was located at...

The holiday season can be joyous and exciting, but it can also be painful for those who are working through grief following the death of a loved one. It can make a person wonder how they will ever survive let alone be able to celebrate the holiday...

Edna Goslin of Sydenham celebrated her 100th birthday with a crowd of friends and relatives last Sunday at her current residence in Arbour Heights. Edna, who was born Edna Pixley, grew up on her family farm on Wilson Road, east of Harrowsmith. She...

The Ontario Local Appeals Tribunal (LPAT) has given Frontenac based developer Terry Grant, subject to a set of conditions, approval to develop a 12-hectare parcel of land in the hamlet of Hartington into a 13 lot subdivision. The Hartington...

The Sydenham High School Golden Hawks were hoping to win the Eastern Ontario Secondary School Athletic Association (EOSSAA) title last week so their berth in the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations (OFSAA) AA Championships wouldn’t...

“This is our 12th and it gets busier and busier every year,” said Leslie Reade, who along with Josie Steele, began the VisionSoup tradition in Sydenham more than a decade ago. The concept is simple enough. You buy a custom made bowl (donated by...

One of the more ambitious Christmas craft/bake sales in Frontenac County happens every year at the Free Methodist Church in Harrowsmith, Christmas in the Village. And it doesn’t happen just at the last minute. “We start planning in May —...

The 19th annual RocknRoll Toy Drive is set for Dec. 1 from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the Sydenham Legion and organizer/musician Tom Revell says they have five bands lined up for this year’s event. “The doors open at 8 p.m. and that’s when the first...

A few short years ago, the Remembrance Day ceremony in Verona was almost shifted to Prince Charles Public School from the Cenotaph at Mcmullen Park, but the insistence and the efforts of a small group of people kept the ceremony in the Park. There...

Last week was the final meeting of the 2015-18 South Frontenac Council. December 4th will be the inaugural meeting of the new Council when the Councillors will be sworn in, and begin carrying out their duties. However, this particular group will be...

At 430pm on Sunday, November 11, the Bells of Peace were rung at St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Sydenham; over 70 people were in attendance to witness this historic event. The Bells of Peace was a national initiative by the Royal Canadian Legion,...