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📅 Kingston Events Calendar

What's on in and around Kingston, Ontario today, this weekend and the weeks ahead. Updated with every issue of Kingston Spotlight.

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Sep 24, 2026

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8 min read

🔧 Michael Judd: Kingston's Ultra Advocate 🏥 $103K MRI Upgrade 🍂 Brush Pickup Map Changed 🧸 Dolls Built to Include 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 September 24, 2026

Local Spotlight: Michael Judd, half a million in quiet aid and a rescued boat | Local News: $103K AI upgrade for KHSC's MRI • 2026 voter sticker • Brush and leaf pickup map changed | Community Champions: Vow renewal funds Kingston4Paws • Inclusive dolls funded by Awesome Kingston • Providence Care's kind heart | Events: Art After Dark • Royal Society Symposium • Amherst Island Drum Circle • Wheels on the Runway • My Dear Theo • Cataraqui Hike Challenge

Les C. Cseh

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Sep 21, 2026

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13 min read

🦷 This Hygienist Makes House Calls 🦋 811 Species in a Day 🎣 Worms & Kindness 📚 WritersFest Is Almost Here 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 September 21, 2026

Local Spotlight: DoorStep Dental brings the hygienist to your door | Local News: The Compassion Clinic's sliding-scale care • The Isabel's 12th season • 811 species at the KFN BioBlitz | Community Champions: Kingston Food Help, a free food directory • $100K from Hyundai Hope on Wheels for kids' cancer research • Worms and kindness at Kingston Mills | Events: Kingston WritersFest is almost here • Fitness Frenzy • Pay Attention! at the Tett • Hannibal Buress • Chili Fest • The Grey Fox • and more

Les C. Cseh

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Sep 17, 2026

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11 min read

📣 Chris Logstrup: Building Power for Students 💧 Queen's Goes Blue ✈️ Snowbirds' Farewell ♿ Rate Your Transit 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 September 17, 2026

Local Spotlight: Chris Logstrup knocked on doors with his grandfather, now he's running for LDSB trustee | Local News: Rate Kingston Transit's accessibility • Accessibility Awards nominations • Snowbirds' farewell flyover | Community Champions: Queen's goes Blue • Doors of Compassion sheltered 108 • Erin Clow's election pages for kids | Events: Kingston Fall Fair • Home Energy Savings • Women in Business • L&A Museum Vintage Market • KCHC Scarecrow Fest • Breast Cancer Walk • Intercultural Fest

Les C. Cseh

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⛳ Norm's Golf & Social 🌽 Readers' Corn Results 🩺 A 30-Second Cancer Find 🏃 Island Terry Fox Run 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 September 14, 2026

Sep 14, 2026

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⛳ Norm's Golf & Social 🌽 Readers' Corn Results 🩺 A 30-Second Cancer Find 🏃 Island Terry Fox Run 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 September 14, 2026

Local Spotlight: Norm's Golf & Social, named for Rich Wall's grandfather | Corn Poll: readers picked their favorite local sweet corn growers | Local News: KHSC finds early throat cancer in 30 seconds • 315 Queen Mary Road opens as shared care • a children's gallery at the health museum | Community Champions: Eva Acs's quiet legacy • 20 women up for the Pinnacle Award • Habitat keys on Wilson St | Events: Norm's charity golf • Terry Fox on Howe Island • Hike for Hospice • KFPL improv and gardening • cave diver Jill Heinerth • dark matter • Food Sustains Us

Les C. Cseh

Newsletter

Sep 10, 2026

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9 min read

🍺 Why the Wasps Are Everywhere 🐝 Bee Hives at the Cataraqui Centre 🏆 Kingston’s 2026 40 Under 40 🚒 Volunteer Firefighters Wanted 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 September 10, 2026

Out of a job and out of sugar, which is why the yellowjackets are on your patio table | Local News: Fire & Rescue wants volunteer firefighters, bee hives at the Cataraqui Centre, fifty Septembers of Vista free to read | Community Champions: the 2026 40 Under 40 is out, five KHSC volunteers honoured, a Rona fundraiser backs Almost Home and the Food Bank | Events: Norm’s charity golf, a free studio tour weekend, Party on the Pier, John Burge at the Isabel, Robert Cumming signs Epic & Kimura

Les C. Cseh

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Sep 7, 2026

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9 min read

📖 Danni Maxwell's Book Lift Me Up 🗳️ Meet Candidates 💙 52 Years of Nursing 🎸 RoadTrip Weekend 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 September 7, 2026

Local Spotlight: Kingston author Danni Maxwell's Lift Me Up, out September 17 | Local News: An all-candidates meeting in every district before October 26 • Cataraqui lakes start their fall drawdown • 3.2 million minutes of summer reading | Community Champions: Linda Galarneau retires after 52 years of nursing • Stephen Lee Naish publishes three books in a year | Events: Norm's charity golf • Jumpstart playground block party • RoadTrip's free street party and ticketed main stage • Mayoral meeting

Les C. Cseh

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Sep 3, 2026

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10 min read

🌮 Adelitaz Mexican Food: A Taste of Home 🚑 Offload Times Cut 44% 🎨 Stevie's Colouring Books 🏆 Two IEDC Awards 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 September 3, 2026

Local Spotlight: Aidee Rebollo cooks her Zacatecas family's recipes in Kingston | Local News: Ambulance offload times down 44% • A donor gift brings laser prostate surgery to KHSC • The Whig-Standard relaunches with a 1990s masthead | Community Champions: The Stevie Wonderful colouring books • Kingston Economic Development takes IEDC gold • Eva Acs's quiet legacy | Events: Norm's first charity golf tournament • Big Paws in the Basin • I Hate Hamlet dress rehearsal • Later Life Learning begins

Les C. Cseh

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🎸 960 Days, Then Bryan Adams 🎪 Horror Circus at the Mall 🏠 22% More Apartments ⚾ Colts at the World Series 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 August 31, 2026

Aug 31, 2026

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9 min read

🎸 960 Days, Then Bryan Adams 🎪 Horror Circus at the Mall 🏠 22% More Apartments ⚾ Colts at the World Series 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 August 31, 2026

Sunflower heads bowed and heavy with seed, at Forman Farms | Local News: 22% more apartments available than a year ago • $3M for Napanee's hospital • 18 more acres saved at Lost Bay | Community Champions: A first ever concert, 960 days into critical care • Kingston Colts back at the World Series • Power of Hope reaches $945,000 | Events: Paranormal Cirque • Nostalgic Sound Big Band • Business Basics with Kingston Economic Development • An ethicist on MAID • Symphony Book Fair

Les C. Cseh

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🌽 Whose Sweet Corn Is Best? 🏛️ Opa on Johnson Street 🎓 Queen's Move-In Weekend 🎡 Second Out of Sixty 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 August 27, 2026

Aug 27, 2026

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🌽 Whose Sweet Corn Is Best? 🏛️ Opa on Johnson Street 🎓 Queen's Move-In Weekend 🎡 Second Out of Sixty 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 August 27, 2026

Our 2026 Sweet Corn Guide is live and the ballot is open | Local News: Greek Fest filled the food bank • the Gord Downie Pier closes nightly through Queen's move-in weekend • have your say on housing | Community Champions: a new executive director at The Food Sharing Project • a $14,500 grant grew Bloom's garden program • Jared Hunter of Inverary finished second out of 60 at the Ex | Events: PA Day programming • Limestone City Car Classic • United Way kick-off • Boodle Theatre's Cymbeline

Les C. Cseh

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Aug 24, 2026

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9 min read

🌠 Perseids Over South Frontenac 🚗 Kingston Out-Polites Toronto ❤️ A Heart Room Like No Other 🍋 Declyn's Lemonade Stand 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 August 24, 2026

Linda Nuttall's Perseids over South Frontenac | Local News: Kingston out-polites Toronto on Uber's own numbers • A KHSC heart room that may be North America's first • The City wants special events volunteers | Community Champions: More than 1,000 backpacks for local students • Two Queen's professors start a free speaker series • Remembering C. John Bermingham | Events: Seniors Expo • Curious Minds • To Labour, with Love • Canal Pursuit • Declyn's lemonade stand • a Ford e-bike for SFCSC

Les C. Cseh

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🎸 Hip Celebrations Take Over Kingston ✈️ Airport Tower With No Windows 🏅 Seven Volunteers Honoured 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 August 20, 2026

Aug 20, 2026

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🎸 Hip Celebrations Take Over Kingston ✈️ Airport Tower With No Windows 🏅 Seven Volunteers Honoured 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 August 20, 2026

Ten years on, the city gives the Hip one more weekend | Local News: What to pack and where to park for Forever Hip • Canada's first digital control tower is built at YGK • Hazardous waste drop-off Aug 29 | Community Champions: Seven volunteers take the Mayor's Civic Awards • Eleven artist-made guitars land downtown • Marc Varin on seven years at Providence Care | Events: Choir! Choir! Choir! leads the singalong • Long Time Running on the big screen • the CBC final-concert rebroadcast

Les C. Cseh

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📚 WritersFest Is Back 🐉 Kingston's Flag to France 🛶 A $1 Million Paddle 🔭 Astronomy Day 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 August 17, 2026

Aug 17, 2026

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📚 WritersFest Is Back 🐉 Kingston's Flag to France 🛶 A $1 Million Paddle 🔭 Astronomy Day 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 August 17, 2026

Local Spotlight: Kingston WritersFest is back, starting with Yann Martel and Iain Reid | Local News: Fall bus schedules begin Sept. 7 • City clears a path for Feed the People • Communauto now at 12 Kingston spots | Community Champions: Chestmates carry Kingston's flag to France • Kayaking for Cancer passes $1 million • 1st Bayridge Scouts need leaders | Events: Martel and Reid at The Spire • Chamberfest closing night • Compton Park Music Festival • Astronomy Day in Napanee

Les C. Cseh

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Aug 13, 2026

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13 min read

💮 Water Lilies on Perth Road ⚽ Hat Trick, Then Promotion 🃏 A Nobel Winner's Card 🍔 Rotary Free BBQ 🗓️ Events 🔦 August 13, 2026

White water lilies on Perth Road, north of Kingston | Local News: Giveaway Day returns Saturday • A Lemoine Point grassland rebuilt for the bobolink • Queen's makes Canadian science a card game | Community Champions: UHKF knocks on doors • Vote on the election stickers by Monday • Sentinels promoted in extra time | Events: Ironwood last call • Martel and Reid at The Spire • Chamber Music, two concerts left • Back to the Farm sells out • Four Rotary clubs open up • Trail photo contest

Les C. Cseh

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Aug 10, 2026

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13 min read

🏖️ Beach Weather 🗺️ A Beloved Mural Saved 🏅 Kingston's Olympic Week 🐢 160 Kilometres and Turtles 🗓️ Events & More | 🔦 August 10, 2026

Peak summer at Gord Downie Pier | Local News: Nominations close Aug 21 • Martello Alley tests augmented reality • Wolfe Island's ferry mural saved | Community Champions: 1,800 backpacks for local kids • Domino's partners with BGC South East • Free exhibit space at City Hall | Events: Yann Martel and Iain Reid at The Spire • Ironwood Fantasy Fair • Free Indigenous workshop with Robert Spade • Kingston's 1976 Olympic week • Frontenac Challenge turtles • Teddy Bear Party

Les C. Cseh

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Aug 6, 2026

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12 min read

📵 Not the Only Parent Saying No to Phones 📚 Yann Martel at The Spire 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 August 6, 2026

Local Spotlight: Unplugged Kingston and the parents saying no to smartphones | Local News: New meters for every Kingston home • $320,245 in heritage grants • 92 homes coming to Verona | Community Champions: Rose of Hope raises $390,000 • Sentinels get one last shot at promotion, at home Aug 9 | Events: Yann Martel and Iain Reid at The Spire • TK Fringe opens with 17 shows • 1,500 geocaches hidden across L&A • Waterside's final concert on Amherst Island • TIWLT's Celebrate 4ever dinner

Les C. Cseh

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Aug 3, 2026

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12 min read

🎻 Chamberfest at The Spire 💗 50 Mammogram Referrals a Day to 300 ⛴️ First All-Female Crew 🗓️ Events | 🔦 August 3, 2026

Local Spotlight: Chamber music meets Indigenous culture at the Cataraqui Festival | Local News: Blood donations down 20% since June • Six Farm to Flavours guides • Kingston pre-checks building permits with AI | Community Champions: A Napanee farmer's post took mammogram referrals from 50 a day to 300 • Island Queen's first all-female crew in 50 years • Shahnawaz Towheed on vitiligo and dermatology | Events: Floral Hug • Juvenis Festival • Sheep Dog Trials • LIVESTOCK • Women's Art Festival

Les C. Cseh

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Jul 30, 2026

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11 min read

🌟 Everyone Belongs at Community Living 🏠 $15,000 for Repairs 🚤 Sea-Doo Rescue 🍺 Beer Ships East 🗓️ Events 🔦 July 30, 2026

Community Living Kingston and District, and the 600 who belong there since 1953 | Local News: Up to $15,000 for urgent home repairs • $302,000 to help businesses beat tariffs • MacKinnon Brothers can ship beer across Canada | Community Champions: Wolfe Island finishes a memorial promised in 1946 • a Sea-Doo rescue near Gananoque • $15,000 for the Great Lakes Museum | Events: the Cataraqui Chamber Music Festival • Emancipation Day • a rooftop startup social • the Monarch Blitz • free Molière

Les C. Cseh

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Jul 27, 2026

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🌼 Those Roadside Lilies 🛝 A Playground for All 🥕 Free Summer Veggies 🏊 More Room to Swim 🗓️ Events | 🔦 July 27, 2026

Those wild orange day lilies all over our roadsides | Local News: Bayridge Drive's new all-ages cycling route • the crowds pushing Kingston for more places to swim | Community Champions: Shannon Park's new Jumpstart inclusive playground • Mutual Aid Gardens' free veggie markets • a rural seniors strength program 300 strong | Events: a Venezuela benefit • Health Adventures camp • the United Way MEGABike • South Frontenac's do-over fireworks • Bad Influence comedy

Les C. Cseh

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Jul 23, 2026

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9 min read

🗡️ Ironwood Fantasy Escape 🚑 Camp Saved His Life 🥁 Alex Young Joins NYO 🔬 Cancer Tests, Safer Food 🗓️ Events | 🔦 July 23, 2026

Local Spotlight: A sword school booked a castle and gave Kingston a fantasy fair with a ball you vote in | Local News: Federal cash for biotechs mDetect and Spectra Plasmonics • Three new SLC nursing certificates | Community Champions: A teen survived anaphylaxis at Camp Iawah • Thousand Islands Association at 92 • Alex Young joins the NYO | Events: Free hep C testing • OFF SEASON dance fest • Police at 185 • Hobo Steve’s for Almost Home • One Ground One Sound last call

Les C. Cseh

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Jul 20, 2026

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9 min read

🎵 Benefit Concert for Venezuela 🏘️ $1 Land, 20 Homes 🔬 Lab for Rent 🏃 Run the Pen 📅 Events | 🔦 July 20, 2026

Two earthquakes took the coast Gia Nahmens grew up on, so she asked Kingston's musicians to play | Local News: 367 Gore Road sells for $1, bringing 20 affordable homes • the Helix Wet Lab opens, a bench startups can rent | Community Champions: a neuro-inclusive game club wins Awesome Kingston's $1,000 • Sandy Riley resails his 1976 Olympic races | Events: One Ground One Sound • Run the Pen 10K • a scuba diver in Gananoque • downtown summer series • Historic Places Days • Sydenham Commons

Les C. Cseh

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Jul 16, 2026

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💜 Why 100 Feet? 🏊 $50,000 Swim ☎️ Rotary Phones Reborn 🌻 Sunflower Fest 📅 Events | 🔦 July 16, 2026

Eight people, a rope, 37,000 pounds, hauled 100 feet for the 1 in 100 living with epilepsy | Local News: Kingston beats its housing target, banks $3.2M • 33 transitional units at 315 Queen Mary • Jamie Emerton puts Bluetooth in a rotary phone | Community Champions: 130 swimmers raised $50,000 at the first Swim the Lake • Volunteers replaced tents after the Belle Park tornado | Events: Fire truck pull • Venezuela benefit • Peace Pole • Rural grants • Sprinkles of Hope • Wynn Farms sunflowers

Les C. Cseh

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Jul 13, 2026

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8 min read

🔦 🏠 Second Chances 🎵 Kingston Plays for Venezuela 🦅 Bald Eagles Are Back 🎸 Guitars Hit Downtown 🏃 100km for the NICU 📅 Events | July 13, 2026

Ryandale opens first home for women, Patti Ridlon's 8-year promise kept • Featured: Venezuela benefit concert | Local News: Take-what-you-need food pantries at 3 sites • Steve Manders tracks Kingston's bald eagle comeback • 10 guitar sculptures downtown | Community Champions: Willem Sagriff runs 100km for KGH NICU • Cruise for a Cause raises $8,000 for survivors | Events: Beats & Bites • Skylla Festival, Wolfe Island • KFPL Summer Reading Party • Kids Take Over Murney Tower • Neighbourhood Parks

Les C. Cseh

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Jul 9, 2026

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8 min read

🌞 Kingston's Quietest Patios 🩺 18-Minute Stroke Care 🎩 Gord Downie's Hat 🛶 Women Join Yakathon 📅 Events 🔦 July 9, 2026

Patio season is here, with our guide to the area’s quietest ones | Local News: Kingston’s 18-minute stroke care leads Ontario • Performance Plants’ climate-proof canola • $350K city fund for community safety | Community Champions: Awesome Kingston backs the Compton Park music fest • First women paddle the 200km Yakathon • Gord Downie’s hat up for auction | Events: Nicci Rea at Confederation Park • S’more Stories in Sydenham • Loyalist’s new aquatic centre opens • Delta Fair turns 196

Les C. Cseh

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Jul 6, 2026

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💜 Purple Clematis in Bloom 🩺 Doctor Waitlist Cleared 🏥 $392,776 Gift 🍺 $7,100 Beer Tent | 🔦 July 6, 2026

Cover: purple Jackmanii clematis, in bloom across Kingston | Local News: primary-care waitlist cleared, thousands get a doctor • NeeDoh squishy craze at The Rocking Horse • a Cape Vincent marina rebuild | Champions: Rotary beer tent raised $7,100 at the FIFA party • KGH Auxiliary gives KHSC $392,776 for NICU ventilators • Micaela Schmidt wins the Kevin Dunbar scholarship | Events: Injury Prevention Day • Napanee Block Party • Rock for Ryandale • a U16 schnitzel dinner • Mending Ways at the Tett

Les C. Cseh

📅 Kingston Events Calendar

🔧 Michael Judd: Kingston's Ultra Advocate 🏥 $103K MRI Upgrade 🍂 Brush Pickup Map Changed 🧸 Dolls Built to Include 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 September 24, 2026

🦷 This Hygienist Makes House Calls 🦋 811 Species in a Day 🎣 Worms & Kindness 📚 WritersFest Is Almost Here 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 September 21, 2026

📣 Chris Logstrup: Building Power for Students 💧 Queen's Goes Blue ✈️ Snowbirds' Farewell ♿ Rate Your Transit 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 September 17, 2026

⛳ Norm's Golf & Social 🌽 Readers' Corn Results 🩺 A 30-Second Cancer Find 🏃 Island Terry Fox Run 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 September 14, 2026

🍺 Why the Wasps Are Everywhere 🐝 Bee Hives at the Cataraqui Centre 🏆 Kingston’s 2026 40 Under 40 🚒 Volunteer Firefighters Wanted 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 September 10, 2026

📖 Danni Maxwell's Book Lift Me Up 🗳️ Meet Candidates 💙 52 Years of Nursing 🎸 RoadTrip Weekend 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 September 7, 2026

🌮 Adelitaz Mexican Food: A Taste of Home 🚑 Offload Times Cut 44% 🎨 Stevie's Colouring Books 🏆 Two IEDC Awards 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 September 3, 2026

🎸 960 Days, Then Bryan Adams 🎪 Horror Circus at the Mall 🏠 22% More Apartments ⚾ Colts at the World Series 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 August 31, 2026

🌽 Whose Sweet Corn Is Best? 🏛️ Opa on Johnson Street 🎓 Queen's Move-In Weekend 🎡 Second Out of Sixty 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 August 27, 2026

🌠 Perseids Over South Frontenac 🚗 Kingston Out-Polites Toronto ❤️ A Heart Room Like No Other 🍋 Declyn's Lemonade Stand 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 August 24, 2026

🎸 Hip Celebrations Take Over Kingston ✈️ Airport Tower With No Windows 🏅 Seven Volunteers Honoured 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 August 20, 2026

📚 WritersFest Is Back 🐉 Kingston's Flag to France 🛶 A $1 Million Paddle 🔭 Astronomy Day 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 August 17, 2026

💮 Water Lilies on Perth Road ⚽ Hat Trick, Then Promotion 🃏 A Nobel Winner's Card 🍔 Rotary Free BBQ 🗓️ Events 🔦 August 13, 2026

🏖️ Beach Weather 🗺️ A Beloved Mural Saved 🏅 Kingston's Olympic Week 🐢 160 Kilometres and Turtles 🗓️ Events & More | 🔦 August 10, 2026

📵 Not the Only Parent Saying No to Phones 📚 Yann Martel at The Spire 🗓️ Events & More 🔦 August 6, 2026

🎻 Chamberfest at The Spire 💗 50 Mammogram Referrals a Day to 300 ⛴️ First All-Female Crew 🗓️ Events | 🔦 August 3, 2026

🌟 Everyone Belongs at Community Living 🏠 $15,000 for Repairs 🚤 Sea-Doo Rescue 🍺 Beer Ships East 🗓️ Events 🔦 July 30, 2026

🌼 Those Roadside Lilies 🛝 A Playground for All 🥕 Free Summer Veggies 🏊 More Room to Swim 🗓️ Events | 🔦 July 27, 2026

🗡️ Ironwood Fantasy Escape 🚑 Camp Saved His Life 🥁 Alex Young Joins NYO 🔬 Cancer Tests, Safer Food 🗓️ Events | 🔦 July 23, 2026

🎵 Benefit Concert for Venezuela 🏘️ $1 Land, 20 Homes 🔬 Lab for Rent 🏃 Run the Pen 📅 Events | 🔦 July 20, 2026

💜 Why 100 Feet? 🏊 $50,000 Swim ☎️ Rotary Phones Reborn 🌻 Sunflower Fest 📅 Events | 🔦 July 16, 2026

🔦 🏠 Second Chances 🎵 Kingston Plays for Venezuela 🦅 Bald Eagles Are Back 🎸 Guitars Hit Downtown 🏃 100km for the NICU 📅 Events | July 13, 2026

🌞 Kingston's Quietest Patios 🩺 18-Minute Stroke Care 🎩 Gord Downie's Hat 🛶 Women Join Yakathon 📅 Events 🔦 July 9, 2026

💜 Purple Clematis in Bloom 🩺 Doctor Waitlist Cleared 🏥 $392,776 Gift 🍺 $7,100 Beer Tent | 🔦 July 6, 2026

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