Written by Adrian O'Connell

The current discussion in North Frontenac with respect to the proposed municipal fee/licence for short term rentals of private property is being conducted amid a plethora of confusing and often misleading terminology Firstly, more so than our American neighbours, Canadians are not permitted to do whatever they want with their… READ MORE

Written by Robert Craigue

I would like to congratulate those involved in the K&P trail improvement from Sharbot Lake to Clarendon Station. It is better than 90% of the roads in the county. The only thing that I thought was over the top, was the fencing. A lot of money spent for something that… READ MORE

Written by Colin Beckingham

As Ontario gently and gingerly tries to restart the engine of the economy and the schools open for business one of the questions likely to be asked will relate to the effectiveness of remote learning. My own experience with remote learning was as a student and later volunteer community teaching… READ MORE

Written by Jean Brown

I am opposed to the proposal for an addition to the municipal offices in Sharbot Lake, and request that this idea be cancelled permanently. It is morally irresponsible to add on to this building given its location so near the lake, given that the septic systems in Sharbot Lake and… READ MORE

Written by John Sherbino

Dear Ross, The tax reduction proposal is insulting at several levels. The very thought of the disproportionate allocation favouring the ‘wealthy’ is self-serving for Council at a financial and political level and might even pitch neighbours against each other. It is also an insult at both levels as it assumes… READ MORE

Written by Bev Antoine

Then there are those who are afraid of the truth. Keep the population in fear and they're easy to control. If you want to hang onto every word that comes out of the media and the Big House on the hill, go ahead, you're not alone. As for me, and… READ MORE

Written by Ted Doleman

“They might not have died because of COVID,” said Dr. Samir Sinha, the director of geriatrics at Mount Sinai hospital in Toronto. “But they die because of starvation and dehydration.” Prior to this pandemic we rarely heard about the 1918 Influenza pandemic, many scholars have said this was because people… READ MORE

Written by Adrian O'Connell

In yet another of his pseudo-referendums, Scott Reid, MP, treats the electors of Lanark, Frontenac and Kingston to a carefully manipulated smorgasbord of alternatives with respect to Bill C-6, aimed at outlawing sexual conversion therapy without the consent of adults and children. Unfortunately, while Reid's mail out document purports to… READ MORE

Written by Maddi Kipling

This is a letter of recognition and gratitude to Atkinson Home Hardware Building Centre. They absolutely went above and beyond this past week. As most of this community knows about the devastating fire in Verona at The Manor.  My husband and I had a vacant unit available for one of the… READ MORE

Written by Jesse Mills

No, this is not a letter about how to have safe sex during a pandemic. I'd like to draw a parallel between the sex-ed debate and the government's response to COVID-19.   So you don't want your teenager to get pregnant or contract an STD: what do you do? Do… READ MORE

Written by Ken Millard

We are doing our part however the inconsistency of this government on this matter can be infuriating. This one size fits all, down-from-the-top approach feels uncomfortably totalitarian. At the time of the order in Kingston Frontenac Lennox and Addington, our overall community status was deemed GREY which is worth celebrating.… READ MORE

Written by Eleanor Belfry-Lyttle

Last Wednesday, one week to the day following the January 6th U.S. Capitol Hill riot, there arrived in our mailbox a “free sample” newspaper. The front-page headlines, the first couple of paragraphs of the “editorial column”, and the headlines and first sentences of articles on the next three pages appeared… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Dubois

I found Dr. Dietrich;s open letter to Randy Hillier (Frontenac News December 20) extremely troubling.  While I agree, wholeheartedly, with the doctor's insistence that good science be embraced in medical decision-making, and that we eschew the subjective nonsense espoused by Hillier and his wingnut supporters, there is an unfortunate consequence… READ MORE

Written by Molly Forsythe

The United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) has been endorsed by 122 nation states. On January 22nd it will become international law for more than 51 countries who have ratified the treaty. These nations recognize the threat of nuclear weapons. If Canada signed and ratified this… READ MORE

Written by Johanna Vandorn

Art is a personal expression, and the artwork submitted was to convey a message of hope. How could one be rated over another? How could it be judged? Perhaps Jeff did intend the word to be “content” and not “contest”. I was as moved by the artwork as I was… READ MORE

Written by Colin Beckingham

Dr. Dietrich's open letter to MPP Hillier presents a different viewpoint on: the severity of the disease, interpretation of statistics and the effectiveness of tests. Each side calls upon cherry picked facts to support their own confirmation bias, but the result is somewhere in the middle so we do end… READ MORE