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James earns college degree, LPGA Tour dates
KINGSTON - Achieving lifetime goals demands discipline, determination and, above all, patience. Such protracted aims aren’t realized overnight, you know, and almost never simultaneously; years maybe, even decades apart. → Read More
Frontenacs extend win streak to four games
With apologies to the late Ray Charles, it’s not the night time but ‘extra’ time that’s the right time for the Kingston Frontenacs. Or at least it has been of late. → Read More
Comeback is cold comfort
On the comeback trail, Emily Setlack — you may remember her better as Emily Tallen, the two-time gold, eight-time OFSAA medallist from Frontenac Secondary School who preceded fellow Falcons foot-racer Dylan Wykes to Providence College — chuckles at the irony: That said comeback was launched in Cold Lake, Alta., a hotbed for Hornets of the CF-18 var → Read More
Knights take detour to National Capital Bowl
The Adam Scott Lions pulled out of Peterborough bright and early Saturday morning, pumped and primed for that afternoon’s National Capital Bowl senior football AA final against the La Salle Black Knights. → Read More
Kingston penalty killers the key to victory
Remember the old TV commercial that asked: How do you spell relief? → Read More
Library prepares for new chapter as renos to begin
Plan to take out an item from the Central Branch of the Kingston Frontenac Public Library? Might be a good time to do so, given that you’ll have until the spring of 2018 to return it ... at least to this location. → Read More
Young Kingston goalie makes 'NHL debut'
The email from the Montreal Canadiens arrived Friday night while Aodhan Woogh-Dunleavy was with his own hockey team at a tournament in Guelph. The big club required the services of the young goalkeeper, who was told to bring his skates. The email wanted to know if the goalie could get his rump to the Bell Centre and lace up in time for Saturday nig → Read More
Young Kingston goalie makes 'NHL debut'
The email from the Montreal Canadiens arrived Friday night while Aodhan Woogh-Dunleavy was with his own hockey team at a tournament in Guelph. The big club required the services of the young goalkeeper, who was told to bring his skates. The email wanted to know if the goalie could get his rump to the Bell Centre and lace up in time for Saturday nig → Read More
Deadly plane crash 'life' lesson
PARHAM -- The long, lonely walk back to the farmhouse alongside his father -- for Melville Good an unforgettable moment from an unforgettable outing more than 86 years ago when young Melville, not yet 10, was exposed, firsthand, to death and destruction. → Read More
Museum founder remembered as 'true visionary'
A long-ago family visit to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto fascinated the inquisitive youngster, instilling in him a life-long love of history, art and artifacts, a passion that ultimately served him well as the future founder and curator of his own museum. → Read More
Veteran armed with pots and pans
Second World War veteran Bill LeBlanc made it clear up front. He informed a visitor from the newspaper that he did indeed serve his country, but largely from the vantage point of a kitchen. → Read More
Comic's death sadly completes 'memorial'
At long last, the tombstone can be completed, the last pertinent piece of information awaits the engraver. David Broadfoot is dead. → Read More
COLUMN: In other happenings
“It’s Stan Stewart phoning from Nanaimo, B.C.,” the voice on the Whig-Standard message machine said. “I played hockey for the Kingston Goodyears in 1953, ’54, ’55 and ’56, and I’m 90 years old. I’m just phoning to see if any of those guys are still alive.” → Read More
Junior juror had a nice ring to it
The letter from the Sheriff's Office, Ministry of the Attorney General, landed in the mailbox this week. → Read More
‘She was my angel ... my anchor’
Death does not knock at the door — Yiddish proverb. → Read More
Hobbs brothers set for gridiron tilt
Saturday’s Ontario University Athletics football game in Kingston is sure to work a nerve and toy with the emotions of a Mississauga couple, who plan to take in the tilt at Richardson Stadium and do what they’ve been doing for more than a decade: watch their sons play the pigskin pastime. → Read More
A 'phenomenal' Tripp
Abi Tripp, recently returned from a busy baptismal outing at the Rio Paralympics, recounted the exact moment it dawned on her -- the fact that the tiny seed of interest planted and sown over the past decade in the Kingston Family Y pool was now in bloom in Brazil. → Read More
Everything comes up aces
Two 11-year-old golfers pulled off one phenomenal feat during a sunny Sunday morning round at Amherstview Golf Club. → Read More
A hockey legend and a patriot
KINGSTON - The name Frank McGee needs no introduction to puck-game pundits and patrons with a penchant for history. A charter member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, McGee was a player of uncommon skill, the most proficient net-bulger of his era, an unparalleled performer in games that counted most — Stanley Cup finals. → Read More
Four on the course
There was nothing unusual about a golf-loving son taking his golf-loving father golfing on the latter’s birthday. If Pop was born “in season”, and in due course becomes, as will the son, enslaved to the game, then Presto! - a round of 18 makes for easy one-stop gift shopping. No extra charge for the four hours — more if they play the 19th — of qual → Read More