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The Napanee Express ploughed through the U15 Fast Pitch Canadians like a runaway train, winning all nine of their games over five days of play and bringing home the Championship trophy. Express Head Coach Scott Thompson could not be more proud, calling the boys “as close and supportive as any
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The Tavistock Athletics may have won the championship game against the Napanee Express, but the national title wasn’t the only meaningful reward taken home from the U20 Men’s Canadian Fast Pitch Championships held in Napanee this past week, August 2 to 7, 2022. “Some people would say we didn’t win,”
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“If ye break faith with us who die, We shall not sleep.” The words from Lieutenant-Colonel John McRae’s famous poem, In Flanders Fields, are known to almost every Canadian and yet, faith was broken with Indigenous veterans from the moment they returned from fighting in the Great Wars. Shut out
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Pope Francis’s apology for the Catholic Church’s participation in the residential school system genocide on indigenous people was an “important first step” for many survivors of residential schools according to R. Donald Maracle, Chief of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte, who noted that this first step must be
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After three long years of preparation hampered by the pandemic, the board and staff of the Kingston Humane Society (KHS) announced Friday, Aug. 5, 2022, that they will be opening a new low-cost spay-neuter clinic at the end of the month. Gord Hunter, Executive Director of KHS, is pleased that
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“Planning committee hear our plea. Don’t murder the Tannery trees!” The chant echoed against the limestone walls of Kingston City Hall as No Clearcuts Kingston (NCK) held a “Rally to Protect Trees and Democracy” in Confederation Park on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. Over 100 people attended the rally, which was
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On Tuesday, Aug. 2, the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts launches its 2022 Human Rights Arts Festival with Sounding Thunder: The Song of Francis Pegahmagabow. The musical journey celebrates the life of the renowned Ojibwe WWI sniper, who was Canada’s most-decorated Indigenous soldier and became a politician and
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Editorial note: this article contains graphic photos that may be disturbing to some readers. A litter of kittens discarded like rubbish in a Kingston dumpster has prompted local animal rescuers to shake their collective heads. Their message is clear: cats are not trash, and there are multiple ways the suffering
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Several young rugby players from the Kingston region are wearing new hardware this week following a trip to the Ontario Summer Games (OSG) in Missisauga, where the Eastern Ontario Rugby Union U15 and U17 Seven-a-Side (7s) teams swept the bronze medals. The Rugby 7s competition featured teams from all four
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A serendipitous development is bringing the U20 Men’s Canadian Fast Pitch Championships back to Napanee this summer, one year earlier than expected. Between Tuesday, Aug. 2 and Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022, eight teams from across the country will be competing at the Napanee Fairgrounds to become the national champion. Bryan
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The Napanee Train Station is slated to become the centre of operations for Morningstar Mission’s Furniture Program, a move that will allow the program to become more streamlined and effective. At a special meeting this week, Tuesday Jul. 12, 2022, the Town Council of Greater Napanee agreed to authorize Town
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Yesterday, Wednesday, Jul. 13, 2022, Kingston Frontenac Lennox & Addington (KFL&A) Public Health detected the first lab-confirmed case of monkeypox in our region. Today, Thursday, Jul. 14, 2022, Dr. Piotr Oglaza, Medical Officer of Health (MOH) for KFL&A Public Health made his first general press appearance since May 13, 2022,
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