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The City of Kingston has declared a significant weather event following a weather alert issued by Environment Canada. During a significant weather event, residents are advised to use extra caution and are reminded that winter maintenance service levels for roads and sidewalks may not be met. What makes a weather
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Dozens of residents in Kingston were surprised to find that their vehicles had been towed away overnight on Thursday, February 13, as a result of the City’s enforcement of its Winter Overnight Parking Bylaw. In particular, the enforcement action took residents of the Queen’s University District especially off-guard, as they
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Ever find yourself wondering where the snowplows are in the city after a snowfall? Wonder no more, as the City of Kingston has launched an online ‘Snowplow Tracker pilot project.’ According to the City, you can now track the progress of some of the City’s snowplows using an online app,
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A less-than-neighbourly dispute in downtown Kingston came to a head when the aggressor in the conflict came at his neighbour with a snow blower, according to Kingston Police. The dispute took place on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019 at approximately 2:30 p.m. when the victim was shoveling the driveway of his
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The #ygkchallenge is an ongoing series where we dare you to be different, resolve to be better, and or do something awesome in support of our beloved community. Each week, Kingstonist establishes a new, ambitious or quirky goal, encouraging you to step out of your comfort zone and do something
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Winter routinely punches us with a snowy fist in the gut, disrupting our day-to-day and resulting in utter pandemonium in the streets. Case in point: Christmas Day 2017, where many Kingstonians awoke to over a foot of snow smothering driveways, making roads impassable and sidewalks impossible to locate. The scene
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Salting our roads in an effort to remove ice is a long standing practice in North America. In fact, we dump more than 20 million tons of sodium chloride on our roads every winter. But where does all that salt go when the snow and ice melts? While the salt
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The #ygkChallenge is an ongoing series where we dare you to be different, resolve to be better, and or do something awesome in support of our beloved community. Each week, Kingstonist establishes a new, ambitious or quirky goal, encouraging you to step out of your comfort zone and do something
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Snow, snow and more snow. Not an uncommon refrain in Kingston, in January. It can arrive in one foul blast or it can accumulate over time. Whichever way, Kingstonians throughout the centuries have admired its beauty and cursed its removal. Here, in the early 20th century, just down from T.F.
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Welcome to Kingstonist’s weekly challenge, dare, resolution or whatever you prefer to call it. Each week we establish a new and ambitious community goal, encouraging our readers, followers, friends and families to step out of their comfort zones and do something great, and hopefully a little out of the ordinary.
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Snow, snow and more snow. Not an uncommon refrain in Kingston these days. In the early 20th century, city workers used horse drawn wagons, mounted on runners, in an attempt to keep Kingston’s major thoroughfares open. Once motorized vehicles were on the scene it wasn’t long before they were adapted
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Over the holidays, Kingston finally got a taste of a real Canadian winter for what seems like the first year in a long while. Harvey and I were out of town this year and we arrived home late at night to find the huge dump of snow covering our driveway
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