Written by Bob Webster

I noted today that Sydney Crosby provided 100,000 meals to Pennsylvanians this week. Good on ya Sydney! I am always encouraged when the gigantically wealthy step in to help those less fortunate during times of crisis. Which leads me to my question - who among the fabulously wealthy in sports,… READ MORE

Written by Pam Giroux

I was very impressed with the maturity of the written assignment by Noah Hertendy 8, submitted by his teacher, Danielle Harding. "What is Covid-19" certainly commanded the readers attention with its intense warning. What concerns me as a Grandmother and retired teacher is the fact that this young boy appears… READ MORE

Written by Shastri Ablack

As a senior member of the upper echelon of Old Farts considered to be in the COVID 19 High Risk category, I would very much like to express my sincere appreciation to the Sharbot Lake businesses, their employees and volunteers-You have been jeopardizing your own health to provide home delivery… READ MORE

Written by John Yokom

Thank you for your recent comments highlighting the role and contribution season folk make to the well being of the township. As a new resident I was taken back what I sometimes feels like a “us vs them” attitude. Somehow I got the feeling that cottage folk were tolerated as… READ MORE

Written by Heather McNie

He states that there are 8,500 flu death in Canada annually, that’s 163 a week. I took the time to look up the data on COVID-19, I gather he didn’t bother. 2000 COVID deaths in the past 6 weeks, that’s 17,333 in a year or 333 a week. More than… READ MORE

Written by Adrian O'Connell

After recovering from nausea witnessing Doug Ford's shedding of crocodile tears at the premature demise of scores of Ontario elders for which his own government bears considerable responsibility because of its gross negligence in cutting back on inspections a year ago, we are now treated to a further display of… READ MORE

Written by Karen Burke

How strange the quiet is. I heard a plane 3 nights ago. We’re on a bit of a flight path, so without the near-constant sound of planes, and without the sound of trains and cars going by, our world is becoming less polluted. Maybe we’ll become better, more in touch… READ MORE

Written by Bob Craigue

A burn ban, fine, it always rains steady after they bring it in, but banning campfires? We enjoy sitting around the campfire, distancing ourselves, and cannot understand why a campfire ban. How many of those have gotten away last year? I got my taxes in the mail on the same… READ MORE

Written by Robert Craigue

We will remember the courage of our health care workers who showed up every day to fight Covid 19. We will remember the courage of our grocery store workers who while being paid little more than minimum wage, came to work every day to see that we had food to… READ MORE

Written by Rob Sutherland

I read with interest todays article on Ron Higgins and his communications to residents around COVID-19 rules. Im a cottager who has been coming to North Frontenac for more than 40 years (and has mostly been here since February) and I am one of the residents who has complained to… READ MORE

Written by Sharon Smith

Open reading the article on the back page of the Mar 19 edition about the Frontenac athletes returning very recently from Germany, and also upon realizing that your paper comes out of Sharbot Lake with a readership of 12,000 households , I was very surprised to see no mention in… READ MORE

Written by Bill Bowick

I received a note from a friend last week. In commenting on Covid-19 he said “The last time I was isolated was over 60 years ago when I spent an extended period in the thinking chair for trying to white-wash the family cat.” What a wonderful world we enjoy when… READ MORE

Written by Mary Stinson

I was disappointed to read the letter to the editor entitled "Emotional Economics" in the March 19th edition of the Frontenac News.  This letter was critical of the decision by the Kingston, Frontenac Public Library Board to continue to pay its employees during the prescribed closure of libraries due to… READ MORE

Written by Adrian O'Connell

The letter in last week's News, by Mr. Beckingham, is replete with many of the self serving myths which currently infuse extreme neoconservative approaches to economic policy and are fuelling the destruction of the planet, its living things and - people at an alarming rate. While governments, with some justification,… READ MORE

Written by Sharon Shepherd

We walked up and down from Clow Road to Davy .  Picked up garbage from one end to the other. I will never understand people that feel they have the right to toss garbage out there window. Most people have a garbage at home. Why on earth do they feel… READ MORE

Written by Colin Beckingham

The decision of the Chief Librarian in consultation with the Kingston Frontenac Public Library Board to continue to pay salaries during closure of libraries due to the virus health issues does not sit right. I'm sure that teachers are in the same situation. Payment for work is one thing, payment… READ MORE