SOUTH FRONTENAC

The Frontenac Fury Girls' Hockey Association is pleased to have been selected as a partner in The First Shift. The First Shift is a unique opportunity designed to help kids fall in love with hockey before you buy all the gear. This six-week...

Course manager Jim Lansdell and the staff at the Rivendell Golf Club in Verona don't pay a lot attention to the Internet during the golf season. There's too much to do every day, keeping the course in the best possible shape and making sure that...

Ever since Ronnie's Place closed there has been a gap in restaurant options in the village of Sydenham. The Mill St. Cafe is open for lunch and Mill Street Pizzeria and Subway are also available, but the village has been missing a sit-down breakfast...

SF Council rejects  zoning bylaw for project, Frontenac County suports plan of subdivision (Note - The first two paragraphs of this article have been updated from the one printed in the Frontenac News on August 25 to reflect the decision taken...

The community of Stirrngton is reeling from a string of thefts targeting volunteer groups and children. “This is a problem in our area,” says John Beskers, Acting President of the Storrington Lions Club which had its community hall vandalized...

A good paddler knows that consistency breeds success. This summer, it seemed, that even Mother Nature knew that. The unrelenting hot dry drought conditions, though detrimental for farmers and well owners, has been conducive to paddling, allowing our...

(TOWNSHIP OF SOUTH FRONTENAC) - On Sunday 21st of August 2016 at approximately 7:45 pm, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) from the Frontenac Detachment responded to a suspicious vehicle parked in a farmer’s field in the Inverary area of South...

South Frontenac Museum summer co-ordinator Nicole Hochguertel, and volunteers Lynne Hutchison and Deb Lovegrove didn't want to just wait for people to come in to the museum last Saturday, as it was holding its first anniversary bash. They left the...

Moderate rains last Saturday and sustained rains on Tuesday of this week have greened up the countryside in South Frontenac and brought some optimism to area farmers who have been watching their crops turn to dust and their pastures dwindle to...

When asked how he started creating chainmail jewellery, Bill Anderson said, “It wasn't my choice - my wife bought me a lesson package to try. After I started, I took to it like ducks to the water and wanted to learn more. So I started watching...

An historic fishing lodge in Battersea is coming back to life with an infusion of energy from new owners. Sitting stately in the small village located north of Kingston, the Holiday Country Manor was purchased on June 29 by Jeff Day and Core Lee,...

Ed Asselstine ran the Verona Car Show for 20 years, as part of the Cattail Festival. Two years ago he started looking around for someone to replace him at the helm because he was finding it to be too much of a burden. He approached John and Carol...

All the net proceeds from the dinner and dance on August 6 at the Frontenac Arena, the first of many events in this 40th anniversary year of the arena, will be added to a $20,000 campaign for arena upgrades. One of the main upgrades is heated seats...

Last year, to mark the 150th anniversary of Frontenac County, the Township of South Frontenac took on the project of turning the former schoolhouse in Hartington, which had been used as a charitable second-hand store for many years, into a gleaming...

“Interconnection” (Photo left) was the title of one of the works by artist Havery Shultz at the Sawmill Art Exhibit in Verona on August 6 & 7. It is a vibrantly painted depiction on the tree of life theme showing a strongly rooted tree on a...

The community of Battersea has been reaching out to Michael and Ayden Trautrimas. After tragedy struck the family on July 27 when a motor vehicle collision took the life of Brenda and her son Owen, and sent Ayden to hospital with critical injuries,...

Council celebrates firefighters South Frontenac Council's celebration for long serving firefighters, which took place before the August council meeting on Tuesday night (August 2), started on a poignant note, as Fire Chief Rick Cheseborough...

History is coming to life on the Rideau Canal and it will take your breath away. Nestled in the elbow of Chaffey’s Lock is a majestic resort steeped in history and filled with charm. “It’s nice to see the Opinicon Resort brought back to life...

On Wednesday, July 27, 2016 at approximately 5:27 pm officers of the Frontenac Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) with South Frontenac Township Fire and Rescue and Frontenac Paramedic Services responded to a motor vehicle collision...

Following a fatal motor vehicle collision on July 27, which claimed the lives of 37-year-old Brenda Trautrimas of Battersea and her six-year-old son Owen, and left her other son, seven-year-old Ayden, in critical condition in hospital, community...

The Verona Car Show has a much higher profile this year than it has ever had before because, for the first time, it is being held as a stand-alone event. For its first 20 years the show was one of the events in the weekend-long Verona Festival, but...

Organizers of the 1st Annual Northern Classic Car Show were pleased with the turn out on July 24 at Harrowsmith Centennial Park. With over 65 vehicles registered, plus silent auction items donated from local businesses, the organizers were hoping to...

(Tickets for the gala will be on sale at the door. It is $30 for the dinner and dance and $20 for just the dance. Come on out - Door open at 6 - dance starts at 9) There's going to be a big bash to kick off the 40th anniversary celebrations of the...

Reflections on 40 years of the NFCA Jim Stinson's first involvement in the North Frontenac Community Arena (he has trouble using the new Frontenac Community Arena moniker) was as a fund-raising volunteer in 1974 or 1975. “I was assigned Desert...

Mike Burrell finds beauty where many people can’t. Looking past the night sky to a source of light, he admires the moths fluttering around the beam. He distinguishes their colour, size and species. He knows they are an invaluable part of nature....

Josh Bennett is a young man doing an old job. Happiest when he’s covered in dirt from working the land, Josh is the fifth generation of his family to work as a farmer. “I like tending to the animals and doing crops,” the friendly 18-year-old...

Organizers from Somersault Events did not know what to expect as they set up under stormy skies on Saturday evening (July 9) for this year's Sydenham Triathlon. Fortunately, the rain, heat and humidity blew over, leading to cool, slightly overcast...

It started steady and built from there as people trooped to the covered porch at Gilmour's on 38 in Harrowsmith for hamburgers, hot dogs and sausages at the annual barbeque fundraiser for Clothes For Kids. The event, which was held on July 8 this...

The air sparkles a bit brighter here, I notice as soon as I get out of the car. Trees bend towards each other and whisper friendly little nothings; I am instantly engulfed and welcomed into the land of ‘Fantasy In The Forest’. Wait, did the...

The 40 children, aged 6 to 12, who attended the Vocational Bible Study (VBS) at Saint Paul’s Anglican Church in Sydenham for the five days during the first week of July, got more than Bible stories. The theme for the week was Animal Encounters....

Despite the ominous start to the day last Saturday, July 9, which began with thunderstorms, four new novice paddlers headed out to compete on the Gananoque River to win ribbons in War Canoe, K1 and K2 events, carrying on a 110-year-old tradition of...

A Night of Exploring and Understanding Moths will have you amazed by their incredible diversity at the Elbow Lake Environmental Education Centre on Saturday, July 16 from 8:30 pm to midnight. Learn about the life cycle of a moth, their favourite...

by Wilma Kenny (with a file by Jeff Green) Tim Laprade, the Public Works Department, Mike Howe and a huge number of hard-working volunteers made this year’s Canada Day celebrations the township’s best ever. The fun included water slides, face...

Vintage car lovers need to mark Sunday, July 24 on their calendars. That's the date of a new car show at Centennial Park in Harrowsmith, which will run from 8 am to 4 pm. The show was the brainchild of Larry Teal, a vintage car enthusiast from...

Council Rejects Re-Zoning Application The owner (Don Stricelj) of a legal non-complying cottage on Dog Lake in Storrington District replaced a roofed front deck (damaged by a windstorm) with a two-storey addition. Because this replacement structure...

Last Friday the students of Prince Charles Public School, Verona, gathered for the dedication of a maple tree donated and planted by the Parents’ Council of Prince Charles, in memory of three former students who had died under tragic circumstances...

Cycling Lanes Elizabeth Wylie of Perth Road, an avid cyclist, made a plea for more bike lanes along township roads, both for greater safety and to encourage a healthy mode of transportation and recreation. She also asked whether there was some way...

Gilmour's on 38 in Harrowsmith is working with Friendly Fires out of Kingston to present a BBQ to benefit Clothes for Kids, which provides snowsuits for children who need them in the Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington and Gananoque regions....

Rachael Smith-Tryon (citation read by Councillor Mark Schjerning. Rachael Smith-Tryon was a student at Harrowsmith Public School, and now that her own children attend the school she has become an active member of the parent council, with...

Friends, community members, and three generations of Revells gathered on June 17 at Revell Ford in Verona to celebrate the business’ 80 year anniversary. Like a miniature festival, the event featured food, live music, face-painting, and displays....

The FAB (Food and Beverage) region was one of the focal points of the Frontenac Community Futures Development Corporation’s Annual General Meeting on June 14. One of the presenters at the event was Back Forty Cheese of Mississippi Station in North...

“If the feeling in a work of art is strong enough, the work creates its own truth. This you have achieved Misha, in these paintings,” said Kim Ondaatje in her introduction to Misha Hunter’s exhibit. Ondaatje is hosting Hunter’s series of...

A landmark in South Frontenac Township is in jeopardy of falling into disrepair if it doesn’t receive a life-saving injection of support. Located in Sunbury, the Storrington Lions Club needs to upgrade the washrooms, heating system and wheelchair...

Zoning by-law Amendment, J. Campbell Property, Canoe Lake Council passed a by-law amendment, rezoning land abutting James Wilson Road in Bedford, to permit creation of three new waterfront lots on Canoe Lake. Although the Cataraqui Regional...

Prince Charles Public School in Verona held their 8th annual Relay for Life fund-raising event last Friday, June 10, under the brilliant late spring sunshine. Cam Whalen, who co-ordinates student relay events for the Canadian Cancer Society in...

South Frontenac Rides held their second annual Tour de South Frontenac event at Prince Charles Public School in Verona on Sunday. Although the event was affected by the weather, a good number of cyclists took advantage of the safety clinic for youth...

Actors in the production of an original play, the Inspector General, performed it for school mates and their parents last Friday, September 10. The play was written by dramatist Christine Harvey and the Not So Amateur Amateur Theatre from Inverary,...

Sunday June 12 dawned cool and wet for June - perfect weather for a run or a long walk. That's what more than 50 people did at the Frontenac Arena that morning, raising money for the Frontenac Fury hockey program and helping to bring the Healthy...

Radon Gas Protection John McEwen spoke to Council of the dangers of radon gas in basements that are used as living spaces. He quoted the Ontario Lung Association ’s statement that “radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer in Ontario,...

By Wilma Kenny Last Saturday a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrated the newly-restored shoreline at the Loughborough Memorial Recreation Centre. Described by Recreation Chair Mike Howe as “a work in progress’, the two swim areas now have pea...