Editorial: Musings on too hot a day
Editorial by Jeff Green I resisted the temptation to write an editorial about the hot weather, because I know nothing more about the heat than anyone else. Then again, if knowing more about a topic than others know is a prerequisite for writing about it, I would probably write about… READ MORE
Editorial: Garbage – what's a township to do?
Editorial by Jeff Green Everybody is up in arms. Well not everybody, but some people - and those people are really up in arms - about the new clear bag garbage system in Central Frontenac. People have said a lot about the clear bags: they are unworkable; they are an… READ MORE
You can’t do what Clayton did
Editorial by Jeff Green When Bud Clayton was elected mayor of North Frontenac I asked him if he was going to step down from the Pine Meadow Nursing Home management committee. He said that as soon as the shovel was in the ground for the rebuild of Pine Meadow, he… READ MORE
Editorial: Don't Ask MNR for a Straight Answer
Editorial by Jeff Green A couple of weeks ago, we ran an article called “Deputy Minister sees diminished role for MNR”. The article was based on the transcript of a video statement by David O’Toole, the Deputy Minister of Natural Resources, that was viewed by staff throughout the ministry in… READ MORE
Editorial: Occupy Lanark
Editorial by Jeff Green When the Occupy movement, as it has come to be known, sprung up in New York as a kind of North American response to the Arab Spring last summer, I, for one, looked at it as an urban phenomenon. Even the slogan about the 1% who… READ MORE
Policing: What do we get for the money?
Editorial by Jeff Green About once every 12 to 18 months, Inspector Gerry Salisbury, the Commander of the Lanark County Detachment of the OPP, makes an appearance at a meeting of Central Frontenac Council. Each time, he brings a set of statistics about the activities of the Sharbot Lake sub-detachment,… READ MORE
Editorial:The Good Life
The Good Life Editorial by Jeff Green Normally every year we print 50 issues of the Frontenac News and then take two weeks off for Christmas and New Year’s. Every few years, because of the way the weeks line up, we put out a 51st paper before having our annual… READ MORE
Comparing Apples to Subsidized Apples
Editorial by Jeff Green It seems to me that it is inevitable that planning services in Central and North Frontenac will be done by the Frontenac County Planning Department as of sometime early in 2012. In recent presentations to both townships, the County Planner, Joe Gallivan, said that costs will… READ MORE
Recreation the key to longer, healthier living
It is unusual to hear doctors talk about the limitations of their profession. Dr. Andrew Pipe is well known for his work developing smoking cessation programs, for his role as head of cardiac prevention and rehabilitation at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, and for work with elite athletes in… READ MORE
Tar Sands sit in Op-Ed
The problem with civil disobedience is that it is a blatant defiance of the “rules” and in a generally moral, law-abiding society like the one we Canadians enjoy, abiding by the rules is ingrained and defiance is seen as counterproductive rebelliousness or mindless insolence perpetrated by misfits or hotheads and… READ MORE
Editorial: Using Hillier to beat up on us
Editorial by Jeff Green Reading through the coverage of the provincial election that will end its dreary run today, one of the sideshows has been a number of articles in both the Ottawa Citizen and the Globe and Mail about LFL&A incumbent Randy Hillier. The Globe and Mail even dispatched… READ MORE
MacDonald is swimming against the current, but how strong is it?
Editorial Jeff Green Liberal candidate Bill MacDonald has been preparing for the provincial election campaign that is now underway for at least four years, and he is putting everything he has into it. But in electoral politics the local campaign is usually limited in its impact on the election because… READ MORE
Editorial: Energy Policy is about more than Hydro Rates
Editorial by Jeff Green Energy policy will be a major theme in the coming provin-cial election. The Conservative Party has been making the cost of hydro a major thrust of their pre-election banter, but aside from a commitment to cutting the HST from hydro bills, and scrapping the Liberals’ Green… READ MORE
Editorial: I Didn't Know Jack
Jack Layton: A Tribute This Guy Knew Jack I didn’t know Jack By Jeff Green Anyone who has gone through a cancer death in their own family - and that is almost everyone it seems - took a deep breath when Jack Layton appeared in public a few weeks ago… READ MORE
One More Reason to Loath End of Summer - Editorial
We are now well into the Dog Days of summer. The weather is still hot, and we really don’t want to have to think about the cold weather to come. But deep inside we know summer will end. So even if we don’t act right away we are starting to… READ MORE
Managing Forests – More than a tax break
Several years ago John Campbell bought a 200-acre farm on the Willis Armstrong Road, a little bit north of Hwy. 7 in Central Frontenac. The farm had been run by the Young family until age and modern economics held sway. Like so many properties in Frontenac County, and in rural… READ MORE