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The South Frontenac Time Capsule Committee is still accepting submissions to be included in a time capsule that will be buried at Centennial Park in Harrowsmith and will be unearthed in 50 years, to mark Canada 200. Submissions have been open for...
SEARCH WARRANT EXECUTED SOUTH FRONTENAC - Drugs, firearms seized On Thursday January 18, 2018, members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Frontenac Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU), assisted by the Napanee and Prince Edward (CSCU), executed a...
Eleven cottages on Maple Lane, Meadow Lane, and Maple Grove Crescent were vandalised by perpetrators on an ATV last Friday night between sometime before 9pm and 11pm. Patio and garage doors were smashed by the ATV, and the vandals destroyed tv’s...
When Council reconvened from a closed session for their regular meeting, CAO Orr announced that they had just accepted Fire Chief Rick Chesebrough’s resignation; after more than 14 years of service for the township, Chesebrough will be leaving at...
Pam Morey knows dementia is random, relentless and frighteningly common. Speaking from her administrative office at Frontenac Arena in mid-January, Morey is passionate about building a strong and healthy community, one issue at a time. “I think we...
When you think ‘martial arts,’ chances are your thoughts tend towards the Orient. When weapons are concerned, in particular, swords, the long, curved, slashing blade of the samurai — the katana — usually comes to mind, doesn’t it? However,...
When you think ‘martial arts,’ chances are your thoughts tend towards the Orient. When weapons are concerned, in particular, swords, the long, curved, slashing blade of the samurai — the katana — usually comes to mind, doesn’t it? However,...
Rural Frontenac Community Services has been awarded $8825.00 from the Community Foundation of Kingston and Area for our project “Let’s Get Drumming”. From the Woodbury Enterprises WE care Youth Fund and the Sunnyside Children’s Fund. LETS...
Working with a core board of five: Sue Clinton, Bev McNeill, Jim Kelly, Katie Koopman, and Coleen Ure McCulla-Grant (long-time member Peter Stewart’s in England this year) this small group of very well-organized volunteers helps connect those in...
Fifty years from now, on Canada Day, South Frontenac residents will gather at Centennial Park in Harrowsmith to dig up a piece of their past. Actually, what they’ll be digging up is a squat metal cylinder. And in that cylinder will be messages and...
In October 2017, the Frontenac Detachment Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Crime Unit commenced an investigation into an incident that took place in September 2015. As a result of the investigation, 40 year old Charles Percy KENNEDY of South...
On Saturday afternoon, Mary Murphy and her crew were busy as bees setting up nativities in the St. Patrick’s Church hall in Railton for Sunday’s Nativities Display. “This is our 10th year and it’s grown every year,” she said. “We have...
Kyle Shorrok was the youngest of the four crew members who died in a crash near Tweed last week, an event that Hydro One said is the most deadly accident in the history of the company. The crash took place on December 14th, which was his birthday....
And as usual for this event, singers are added from neighbouring communities, as well as a children’s choir, and the flute trio, ‘Toute Ensemble’. The choir entered singing from the back of the church, led by Johnathan Davies’ clear,...
With tender prices of $74,427, $103,320 and $122,940, South Frontenac Council said no thanks to the contractors bidding on repairs to the steps into Glendower Hall at its regular meeting Tuesday night in Sydenham. The rejection came on the advice of...
A service club in Frontenac County is asking for the gift of hope this Christmas. “Storrington Lions Club has been working hard to revitalize its community hall in Sunbury,” says John Beskers, President of Storrington Lions Club. “Working with...
Prince Charles Public School in Verona was a busy place Saturday as the Frontenac Farmers Market combined with the School Advisory Council for a fundraiser that packed the place. There were 38 vendors filling the hallways and library and 22 of the...
(TOWNSHIP OF SOUTH FRONTENAC, ON) - On December 4, 2017 at approximately 5:00 p.m., the Frontenac detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to break and enter in progress at a cottage residence on a secluded laneway that runs off...
Christine Lavallee opened Lavallee’s Inverary store last January 1. The store is located in the centre of Inverary in the location of the former Inverary store. It carries what you would expect to find in a convenience store, but over the last...
Gord Rodgers of French Planning Services and Bill Peairs, Chair of Sydenham Lake Association, presented Council with the final version of the Sydenham Lake Plan, which was developed over the past two years. An attractive readable 31 page document,...
On Saturday afternoon, Mary Murphy and her crew were busy as bees setting up nativities in the St. Patrick’s Church hall in Railton for Sunday’s Nativities Display. “This is our 10th year and it’s grown every year,” she said. “We have...
(TOWNSHIP OF SOUTH FRONTENAC, ON)- On December 6, 2017 at approximately 6:25 p.m., the Frontenac detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a two vehicle head-on collision on Sydenham Road and Horning Road in South Frontenac...
Frontenac County did well by the Community Foundation of Kingston and Area this week. 5 of the 15 grants announced at a ceremony at Sydenham Street United Church in Kingston are going to projects that are located in Frontenac County. They include a...
Chris Jarvis is a former Olympic rower who has had type one diabetes since he was thirteen. He rowed for team Canada for eight years, competing in Athens in 2004, Beijing in 2008, and in 2007 he won a gold medal for Canada in the Pan American Games....
South Frontenac Council approved and adopted its 2018 budget at its regular meeting Tuesday night in Sydenham. The Township will be collecting from $19,129,719, 2.92% more than the $18,586,507 it collected in 2017. However, the Treasury department...
Diane Dawber is living the good life these days. She is feeling strong and healthy, enjoying living on Wilmer Road next to Sydenham Lake But that has not always been the case. In 1990, while she was working as a teacher and living in Amherstview,...
Club members and dignitaries gathered at the Social and Athletic Club in Harrowsmith Saturday to acknowledge a $19,500 grant the club received to renovate its building o Colbrooke Road. The grant was presented by Ontario Trillium Foundation Bob...
Perth Road Village Crafters draw a crowd for annual show and lunch No one at the annual craft sale and lunch was too sure how long the Perth Road Village Crafters have been in operation but it’s been quite awhile now. “My mom was in the Crafters...
Opponents of the Johnston Point 15 lot development on Loughborough Lake have not given up the fight. The development received draft approval from the Ontario Municipal Board over a year ago last spring. That approval included a number of conditions...
Battersea resident, Tania Edgar, is inviting families to take a stroll through a candle-lit field and forest on her property in Battersea on the evenings of December 8, 9 and 10. She will be holding a Woodland Luminaries Walk as a way to share the...
South Frontenac Council took time out at their Saturday budget session earlier this month to discuss the Inverary Lake Association’s request for $15,000 to help them develop a lake assessment/management plan. Although Council has never granted...
Last Saturday, Grandmothers by the Lake brought four local and very different music groups and one pianist together for a sold-out eclectic evening of music. The first performance was, appropriately, Log House Rhythms, a group of five playing...
The Frontenac County Economic Development wants to know how residents feel about allowing motorized off-road vehicles to access the K & P Trail at the planned Bellrock Road Trailhead among other things and as such held an Open House information...
LPS students Owen and Emily Desjardin and Grace Silver, all from the congregation of St Paul’s Anglican Church Sydenham, present a playground enhancement cheque for $1,300 to Lisa Welder, parent council treasurer and Jeff Peck, fundraising chair....
Lovers of ferocious budget debates are likely to be disappointed by South Frontenac’s 2018 budget process. Although MPAC numbers came in lower than expected — to the tune of needing to cut $44,500 in order to maintain the tax increase Council...
At a special committee of the whole meeting Monday afternoon in Sydenham, South Frontenac Council committed in principle to some form of near-future project for seniors housing. Just exactly what that project will look like other than 12 units with...
You know Christmas is coming when you can smell a variety of flavours coming out of the Grace Centre in Sydenham on a Saturday afternoon in late November. And this year is no exception as Leslie Reade and Josey Steel once again organized Vision Soup...
One Fatality In multi vehicle collision on Highway 401 On November 18, 2017 at approximately 5am The Frontenac detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a multi vehicle collision on Highway 401 eastbound near the Westbrook...
It’s kind of a shame that Louise Day’s A “Day” in Nature photographic exhibition at Blueroof Farm ended Nov. 12 (it was open each Sunday since Sept. 24). While there were many competent images of animals (including an excellent grab of a...
Sydenham Women’s Institute kicked off the pre-Christmas shopping season last Saturday by filling Grace Hall with a wide and colourful array of handicrafts, home cooking and decorations. Sellers came from the whole area, from Battersea to Verona;...
Outdoor Furnace Issue Neighbours Mary Royer and Jim Varrette made presentations about their neighbour’s outdoor furnace, which Royer says has caused her ongoing health and comfort problems with its smoke. She uses an inhaler and sometimes a mask,...
The ever resourceful Grandmothers by the Lake have put together African Heart Beat to raise money to combat the HIV/AID pandemic in Africa. The evening will include a performance by Log house Rhythms, a West African drum group whose call and...
Jeff Peters was one of six members of the Inverary Lake Residents Association who spoke passionately of the need to protect a small shallow lake just south of the Round Lake Road, near Inverary. Their concern is focussed on an application by a Mr...
Local hockey families will be celebrating their rural roots this January in true country style. “Our annual dance this year is a Redneck Hoedown,” confirms Lisa Greenwood, a lead organizer of the Storrington Stingers Hockey Association’s...
Confession: after the village children we knew grew up and stopped coming around at Hallowe’en, Cam and I got a bit overwhelmed by the onslaught of little strangers, all 300 of them, who were dropped in the village like litters of kittens and had...
The Land Between, a grassroots ecology-focused charity, recognizes the landscape spanning from the Georgian Bay coast to the Ottawa Valley as “a treasure trove of ecosystem services benefiting all of Ontario.” The organization held a knowledge...
For families with children attending Prince Charles Public School, Christmas for Kids can be a god-send. The group has been putting together Christmas packages for families in need for many years. The packages, which go to somewhere between 65 and...
When Kerri Pringle’s mother, Sharon Horgan, died of Sarcoma 9 years ago, she was understandably devastated. Among the ways that she dealt with her grief was to stasrt up a fund raising event to donate money to the University Hospital Foundation...
This weekend (Oct. 28) will be the final Saturday outdoor venue of 2017 for the Frontenac Farmers Market in Verona. (They do plan a Christmas market in December indoors at Prince Charles Public School.) Self-described market...
Twice a year, Five Star Farm on Scanlan Road in South Frontenac opens up its barns and fields for the public. “We really believe in education and giving people an opportunity to see what rural life is like,” said Tracy Parker who owns the farm...
