North Frontenac
What Came Through the Fence
On Saturday a resident tagged three candidates under an NFNM article and asked them to account for talking to this paper. It was theory until then. Now it is a record.
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North Frontenac
Checkmate, Sue MacGregor: your template is in the council agenda.
The Kashwakamak Lake Association's president called NFNM's reporting a misrepresentation, then posted the email that proves it and banned the paper. The council agendas have the rest.
Oct 22, 2026
North Frontenac
Why Some Women Said No
An Election/Voting themed article to read. This article is a celebration of voting and why we need to all go out and do it. People have fought long and hard, for a long time, to give you this right. Enjoy 🙂
Oct 22, 2026
North Frontenac
Learn, Earn, Return
Denzel Washington describes life in three stages: learn, earn, return. In North Frontenac, the last stage isn't letting go, and the young people and tradespeople we will all depend on are paying for it.
Oct 20, 2026
North Frontenac
Road 509 carries about 615 vehicles a day. The Webequie road to the Ring of Fire, estimated at $900 million, is predicted to carry fewer than 500.
The province's Webequie Supply Road is estimated at about $8.4 million a kilometre. Its infrastructure grant for the township's 344 kilometres of road comes to about $2,589 a kilometre this year.
Oct 11, 2026
Editorial
Leadership Is Not on the Ballot
Last November I asked people in this township to run for council, and I said my own name would be on that list. Nominations closed Friday and it is not. Here is the straight answer: why I am staying out, what I am doing instead, and why I think we have the word leadership wrong.
Aug 24, 2026
North Frontenac
The Shareholders Update North Frontenac Residents Never Got
North Frontenac council put $97,294 of tax money into an Ontario business corporation it part-owns. Three years and $6.9 million of public money later: no housing built, no exit before 2029, and the mayor who endorsed it from the chair also chairs its board — and didn't say so.
Jul 15, 2026
South Frontenac
South Frontenac won't write a short-term-rental by-law. Its neighbour is moving toward one. The question underneath both: who ends up owning the lake.
South Frontenac has told residents in writing it will not regulate short-term rentals. North Frontenac is moving toward licensing them. Neither the county nor any other Frontenac township tracks them at all.
Jul 1, 2026
Central Frontenac
A mandatory septic program that finds the failures and fixes almost none
Central Frontenac lakefront owners are billed under a mandatory by-law to fix failing septic systems, but the township's own committee record shows almost none of the identified problems get corrected.
Jun 30, 2026
North Frontenac
Dark Sky, Lit Buildings: What North Frontenac's Designation Asks of the Township, and What It Does Not Ask of Residents
North Frontenac brands itself Canada's first dark-sky municipality. The designation asks the township to fix its own lighting, and asks nothing of residents.
Jun 29, 2026
North Frontenac
NFNM Monday: A Half-Empty School Is the Next Warning
Clarendon Central has lost a teacher, an EA, a reading program and a senior teaching position over a decade. The students it serves come from the poorest corner of Frontenac County. North Frontenac council voted unanimously to back the parents fighting to hold the line.
Jun 15, 2026
Editorial
Two Roads to the Same Wall
Two people poured themselves into this township. One was worn down by its institutions, the other by its people. Same result, kept as separate accounts.
Jun 13, 2026
North Frontenac
The Committee Nobody Watches
A four-lot Sand Lake severance came back before North Frontenac’s planning committee, and a neighbour found out by accident.
Jun 1, 2026