One local grandmother is jumping in to 2022 with a splash – literally! Gail McTague is accepting pledges on behalf of Kingston’s Grandmother Connection to support grandmothers in Africa raising their orphaned grandchildren. To garner funds, McTague will jump into Portsmouth Harbour on Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022. “There are all
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The seemingly surprise arrival and location of sleeping cabins at Kingston’s Portsmouth Olympic Harbour was heavily debated on the evening of Monday, Dec. 20, 2021, with neighbouring residents expressing their views both for and against the project. When Portsmouth Village and District homeowners, business owners, and residents found out by
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Greater Napanee Mayor Marg Isbester will keep her seat at the head of the table, but with a vote of 4:1 it’s clear that she does not have council’s full support. Integrity Commissioner Laura Dean provided council with a summary of two complaints made against the Mayor during Tuesday’s regular
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Mayor Marg Isbester will be in the hot seat again on Tuesday, Sept. 28, as a second report of the Integrity Commissioner will be presented to council regarding two complaints made about the Greater Napanee Mayor’s conduct. Integrity Commissioner Laura Dean will be back for Tuesday’s regular council meeting to
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The Mayor of Greater Napanee contravened the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act (MCIA) by failing to declare a pecuniary interest while discussing and approving the development of land by a builder with connections to her son, the town’s Integrity Commissioner has found. According to the Integrity Commissioner, Mayor Marg Isbester
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The final KPMG Forensic Inc. report, reviewing the process of three property sales in Greater Napanee (one of which was between a former Napanee Mayor and the Town), has been released to the public. According to the report, KPMG “did not find evidence to suggest any conflict of interest or
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Report discussed by Greater Napanee Council at a closed session meeting on Monday, Jul. 26, 2021 The much anticipated and thoroughly debated KPMG report will be released by Greater Napanee staff and uploaded to the website as early as today, according to the Town of Greater Napanee Council. During a
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Rotary in Kingston wraps up its Centennial celebrations this week with some pretty extraordinary projects and changes, including donating over $500,000 back to the community through 16 new initiatives. Rotary began in Kingston in March of 1921. Today, six clubs operate throughout the Kingston region, with nearly 200 Rotarians building
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After nearly a year and a half of business owners opening and closing their doors, and adjusting businesses strategies to adapt to all the curveballs the pandemic threw at them, the last thing a small town business owner needs is to close its doors for repairs. However, that’s just what
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Closed Session meetings, staff vacancies, tax sales among items on the agenda The agenda for the Greater Napanee Council meeting taking place on Tuesday, Jul. 20, 2021 is now available, which includes zoning meetings, staff vacancies, and a number of lengthy staff reports — but the topic that many residents
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An anti-mask/anti-lockdown group is making its way across western Canada but did not hold an event at Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory as originally planned. The Cross Canada Motorcade left Toronto on Saturday, Jul, 17, 2021, for northern Ontario after being asked by Tyendinaga officials and community members not to host its
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UPDATE (Thursday, Jun. 17, 2021): Following the series of events outlined below, which began with an anonymous document alleging that six faculty at Queen’s University have wrongly been identified as Indigenous, Queen’s University has released a joint statement from its Provost and its Associate Vice-Principal (Indigenous Initiatives and Reconciliation). The
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