I have been reading letters to the editor and feel I must express my opinion regarding assisted suicide. I sat beside my mother, two sisters, a sister-in-law, a brother and a few friends dying with cancer, never wishing any one of them to depart before their natural time. What is… READ MORE

I wanted to address questions raised by Martyn Jenkyn (Letters, April 16) about a motion to investigate a speed limit on a section of Road #38 around the Hinchinbrooke Transmission Station. The motion came about as a result of a number of discussions with families living along that stretch of… READ MORE

The Boston Marathon attack was on April 15, 2013. On June 13, 2013, then-Minister Vic Toews announced funding for the Kanishka Project to research the causes and techniques of terrorism. Yet our MP Scott Reid sends out a flyer denigrating the attempt to "figure out its (terrorism's) root causes" and… READ MORE

The television licence for The Ontario Education Communications Authority, better known as TVO or TV Ontario, is up for renewal this summer.  Cloyne (CICO-DT-92) hosts one of the nine HD digital television transmitters that TVO operates across Ontario. You can spot Cloyne's TVO tower from Highway 41, next to Bon… READ MORE

In the 1930s the reeve of the rural municipality of McKillop #220 in Saskatchewan was worried that the citizens of his municipality couldn't afford healthcare. Somehow in the midst of the depression Reeve Anderson and his council managed to find enough money in the municipal budget to hire a doctor.… READ MORE

Just wanted to say how much I am enjoying Jonathan Davies' column on farms and farmers in Frontenac County. I appreciate getting to know more about opportunities to buy my food locally, but also I really appreciate how Jonathan links the local scene to what's happening globally. We are all… READ MORE

I see that Brett Cameron is proposing to get the speed limit reduced on Road 38 between the Hydro substation and White Lake Road because of the bend. Has there been an issue on this part of the road? Perhaps he would like to put 60 km on all bends… READ MORE

The last couple of weeks I have read letters to the editor from people opposing assisted suicide. I agree that people shouldn’t have the right to die for no reason, but that’s happening anyway; they are just doing it themselves and leaving their family shocked and grieving because they didn’t… READ MORE

In order to get re-elected to reduce investments in health care, education and veteran’s support; to cut all environmental protections, to spy on you and protestors, and to subsidize big oil; the Harper Government needs to buy votes. So if you have a child under 18, he will give you… READ MORE

On the back page of the March 19th issue of the Frontenac News was a Letter to the editor. This is unusual I thought, and I noticed it was written by my neighbour, Jule Koch, so I read it. I am very glad that I did even though it left… READ MORE

A big thank you note to Mayor Francis Smith and the Central Frontenac works crews. I worked for a very large municipality and always heard complaints about everything under the sun and moon. It was nice just every so often I and my fellow municipal employees got a note of… READ MORE

Councilors, Please reverse your decision on not installing a culvert at the old railway bridge on Road 38 as it would halve the construction time, halve the cost, halve the disruption and make it safer for all who use the highway. By the way, what happened to the $600,000 estimate… READ MORE

Addington Highlands council (Addington Highlands Council, Mar 19/15) is wise to take a go-slow response in respect to NextEra Energy's effort to gain support for a huge wind power project that will see 100 turbines blotting the local landscape. Those turbines will each need as much as 400 tons of cement… READ MORE

It is interesting to examine the letter (Re: Addington Highlands Wind Project, Mar 26/15) written by Mr. Parker Gallant, a well known anti-wind proponent, about the proposed wind project. You also published a letter (Re: Addington Highlands Wind Project, Mar 26/15) from Helen Forsey on this topic. While Ms. Forsey's letter was… READ MORE

Windmills are beautiful! I object to Councilors Fritsch and Thompson calling windmills "eyesores"(Addington Highlands Council, Mar 19/15). I happen to think that they are beautiful and I would gladly look at them every day so I could admire their beauty. Having said that, the municipality will receive compensation, which will… READ MORE

Thank you for your extensive report (Addington Highlands Council, Mar 19/15) and commentary (What it is about Wind, Editorial, Mar 19/15) on the possible wind energy project in North Frontenac and Addington Highlands. It is very important to have a full and informed discussion of this possibility, and you are… READ MORE