SOUTH FRONTENAC

Heather Woodyard, who has resided in Verona for just three years, never expected that she would enter the retail business. But as the saying goes, when one door closes, another one opens. It was a lack of jobs in her specific field of study that led...

The sport of  Eisstock has steadily been gaining in popularity, especially in the Township of South Frontenac. This is likely due to the fact that a number of enthusiastic and gung-ho players from the area have recently taken up the sport. Karl...

People lined the main street of Verona for the Saturday morning parade marking the 20th installment of the Verona Cattail Festival on August 8 and 9. South Frontenac mayor Ron Vanderwal opened the festival and congratulated all of the volunteers and...

Over 250 young paddlers from six different paddling clubs across Ontario competed at the Eastern Ontario Division Championships, which took place at Sydenham's Point park on August 8 and 9. The small but mighty Sydenham Lake Canoe Club hosted the...

History buffs wanting to experience what living in pre-17th century Europe was like may be interested to know that there exists an international society with branches right here here in Canada that allows its members to do just that. The Society of...

Township hopes to submit plan by mid-September South Frontenac Council interrupted their summer meeting break to hold a special meeting on Tuesday, August 11. The only item on the agenda was a statutory public meeting to gather input from council...

Party Crashers - Invasive Species - are bad news for our native plants. The Frontenac Stewardship Foundation has a plan to fight these party crashers, because invasive species are having a significant impact on the County of Frontenac’s natural...

Owners of the Verona Convenience and Greco Pizza on Road 38 in Verona, Anil and Azmina Velji, wish to thank the local Verona and area community for their support for a 10 kilometre fundraising walk the couple took part in in Ottawa on May 31. The...

Over four hundred supporters of the Bobs and Crow Lakes Foundation attended the organization's annual fundraising event, the Frontenac Frolic, which was held at the Bedford hall near Godfrey on August 1. The foundation was established in 2005 and...

Council rejects solar project over timing South Frontenac Council has been friendly towards industrial solar projects that have come to them in search of support as part of a provincial procurement process that has a deadline of September 1 for...

The date change for this year’s 11th installment of the Canadian Guitar Festival, which takes place at Loughborough Lake Holiday Park just south of Sydenham, in no way affected the turnout for the annual three-day event, which showcases some of...

Detectives with the Napanee detachment of the OPP are seeking the public’s assistance following two separate suspicious fires in Enterprise. On July 12, at 12:30am OPP were notified of a fire at 1583 Lake Road in Enterprise. The building, located...

The Frontenac minor hockey community invites you to be part of our 3rd annual Frontenac Minor Hockey Association (FMHA) “Rinks to Links” golf tournament. There are many ways to be involved, including sponsoring a hole, contributing a prize for...

There was as a time not so very long ago, when one could park on both sides of the street in Sydenham, facing whichever way happened to be most convenient. Mill Street on a Friday just before closing time at the Beer Store was no place for the timid...

At the regular county council meeting in Sydenham on July 15, former South Frontenac mayor and county warden Gary Davison, and current mayor of Frontenac Islands and county warden Dennis Doyle, presented Maggie Clark with a special one-time 150th...

Ninety-five golfers participated in this year’s Southern Frontenac Community Services’ annual Family & Friends Golf Tournament, where 24 teams took to the greens to enjoy 18 holes at Rivendell Golf Club in Verona. The event, now in its seventh...

Gilmour’s on 38 Meat Shop and Deli in Harrowsmith is having a charity barbeque tomorrow, Friday July 24 from 2 to 6pm to raise funds for the Clothes for Kids Foundation. This organization works with underprivileged families to make sure that the...

Harrowsmith's Alice Aiken started her military career in the navy as a ship's navigator in 1984. While in the military she took a degree in Physiotherapy at Dalhousie and served as a physiotherapist until she left the military in 1998. She completed...

Wayne Conway, past president of the Verona Lions and the current director and chair of the Verona Lions Jamboree, said that not much has changed since the annual fundraiser began 64 years ago. Guests from near and far return year after year to...

The Buck Lake community has passed the buck again - but not in the way one might think. The idiom “pass the buck” means to give responsibility to someone else or to evade responsibility. If you pass the buck you shift responsibility for...

The controversial extra charge of $25 a month for residents of Sydenham who have not hooked up to the Sydenham water system has been revoked by Council. Residents who are not hooked up will continue to pay for the water that they don't use, as they...

Members of South Frontenac Council have been asked about their stance on it for years. There have been meetings between neighbours, presentations at Council meeting, whisperings about too much water on the site, drainage, loss of rural character and...

Suzanne Clarke has been raising goats for about half a decade, which may not seem like a long time. And yet, from the first pair of Nubian does she acquired in 2009, she has carved out a niche market in the Frontenac region for her breeding stock....

Last month the Kingston Field Naturalists held their 17th annual BioBlitz at Wintergreen Studios on Canoe Lake Road. The purpose of a BioBlitz is to list as many different species as possible in a 24-hour period, thus giving a snapshot of the...

by Wilma Kenny and Jeff Green Ah, the modern world Holly Thompson started her valedictory address at Sydenham High School last Thursday afternoon, June 25, by asking her fellow classmates to refrain from checking or posting on their twitter and...

Local politicians, visitors from other social service agencies, and members of the business community were well represented at Southern Frontenac Community Services’ (SFCS) AGM on June 24, which was held once again this year in the morning in...

A capacity crowd breakfasted and networked at the Frontenac Community Futures Development Corporation’s (FCFDC) Annual General Meeting at the Verona Lions hall on June 18. Board chair Jan Dines introduced the organization’s board, staff, and...

The stepped concrete wall below the recent addition to Sydenham High has been transformed, thanks to the work of Darryl Silver of Silverbrook Garden Centre, just west of Sydenham. Soon after our article about the wall was published in the Frontenac...

Verona Lions Club will be hosting the 64th Annual Verona Lions Jamboree at the Verona Lions Centre, 4504 Sand Road, from July 9 to July 11. Starting on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings, canteen and rides will open at 5pm. The bingo pavilion...

As the first of 11 listed delegations relating to solar projects, Utilia Amaral of SunEdison said her company was not planning to proceed with the Groenewegen and Freeman Road projects at this time. She attributed this decision to the high degree of...

Genevieve L’Abbe, a 17-year-old Sydenham Lake Canoe Club sprint paddler and Junior National Team Member, successfully competed in Montreal at the National Team Trials regatta last weekend for one of five positions on the Junior World’s Women’s...

Over 100 local kindergarten students along with youngsters from the local community took part in the eighth annual Strawberry Moon festival at St. James Major Catholic School on June 17. The event was in celebration of National Aboriginal Day (on...

Two recent grants from the Limestone Learning Foundation (LLF) have resulted in some interesting projects that have been completed by students at Harrowsmith Public School. Thanks to one of the grants, students in Ms. Vogelzang's grade six class...

For the past six years Southern Frontenac Community Services Corporation (SFCSC) has hosted an Annual Golf Tournament in support of their Senior Services programs. The Annual 50+ Classic Family & Friends Golf Tournament fundraiser is one of the...

Harrowsmith-area residents gathered in large numbers Wednesday evening, June 17, at Harrowsmith Public School for a presentation from a solar developer eyeing three properties in the region as potential project sites. SunEdison, a US-based...

Ontario Provincial Police News Portal [FRONTENAC] OPP INVESTIGATING FATAL CRASH - Two deceased 2015-06-18 (SOUTH FRONTENAC, ON) - On Wednesday, June 17, 2015 at approximately 10:45PM, officers of the Frontenac detachment of the‎Ontario Provincial...

This years' recipients of Volunteer of the Year honours were handed out at a ceremony and reception at the Township Hall in Sydenham. This year;s deserving recipients are Joan Cameron, Debbie Lingen, and Barb Stewart. Joan Cameron is, among other...

Organizers of an Olde Tyme Canadian Dinner fundraiser that took place at Trinity United Church in Verona on June 12 covered all the bases in celebrating 150 years in Frontenac County, as well as the church’s own 129th anniversary and the upcoming...

A capacity crowd filled the Bellrock hall on June 6 for the official release of “After the News”, the self-titled album and latest musical offering from Lee Casement and the band, many of whom are long time collaborators who have written and...

Council Disagrees with Planner on Rezoning Township Planner Lindsay Mills brought a recommendation to Council that they approve a rezoning application which would enlarge an existing urban industrial lot on the southern edge of Harrowsmith. He...

Cyclists will be happy to know that the committee known as South Frontenac Rides is doing their best to promote scenic and safe cycling in the township of South Frontenac. The group, which is supported by the County of Frontenac, the local OPP, the...

Ginny Trousdale of Sydenham began making art as a photographer 20 years ago and recalls one particular painterly photograph that first inspired her to pick up a paint brush 12 years ago. “I never felt I could draw realistically,” she said, “...

Sprint Kayaker, Genevieve L’Abbe is training hard these days to compete in the National Team Trials in Montreal June 18-20. This 17-year-old former Sydenham Lake Canoe Club paddler will be up against kayakers from across Canada, battling for the...

Solar (FIT) Projects: Five Delegations The first delegate, Wolfe Erlichman, represented the Wintergreen Renewable Energy Coop, a five year old program in South Frontenac with over 150 members. He spoke briefly in general support of the development...

At this week's open mic and jam that takes place every other Sunday at Bedford Hall near Godfrey, owners and keepers of music and musical instruments set up a sale in the basement where musicians of all sorts came to peruse a number of unique items...

Advertising is what attracted John and Alison Turcotte of Bath, first time buyers to the 7th annual Grandmothers-by-the-Lake annual plant and bake sale that took place for the first time at St. Paul's United Church in Harrowsmith on May 31. The...

May 31st was a bittersweet day for Betty Wagner, the longtime leader of the 28 member Frontenac Women's Chorus (FWC). She was conducting the chorus at a concert titled “Thank You for the Music” her final concert with the group. Over 100...

The gardens and greenhouse at Sydenham's Grace Centre are doing well, with leafy greens covering much of the greenhouse floor, and volunteers in a flurry of planting in the outdoor beds as the summer approaches. Coordinated by Janette Haase, the...

Zoning By-law Updated In a brief public meeting, Planner Lindsay Mills presented four proposed ‘housekeeping’ updates to the Township’s Zoning By-law: 1) requirement for a three-metre minimum separation between all buildings on a property,...

This year’s SHS Drama Department production was “You Can’t Take It With You” by Hart and Kauffman. Set in the late 1930’s, the play features a happy, loving but highly eccentric family whose daughter becomes engaged to the son of a very...