By Chad Ingram When CBC comedy series Still Standing films in Minden later this month, Minden Hills CouncillorJennifer Hughey will take a paid contract position with the production, with the agreement that moneywill be donated…
Kilby treats family to backyard Kinmount fair
Lynne Kilby greets her kids and grandkids from the ticket booth in her backyard, set up to recreate a Kinmount Fair experience despite the annual event’s cancellation this year. By Sue Tiffin Lynne Kilby’s family…
Sunflowers grow for a good cause
Easton Clement grew sunflowers this year, documenting their growth with photos, before selling them roadside with some proceeds benefitting the Toronto Zoo Wildlife Conservancy. /Submitted photo By Sue Tiffin Back in April when Easton Clement,…
Misinformation: The cancer among us
By Jim Poling Sr. It was a pleasant late summer day. A perfect day for some relaxing recreation, so a buddy and I hopped on ATVs and headed off to Sherborne Lake, one of the…
On the airport
By Chad Ingram The history of the Stanhope Airport is long and complicated and the question of what to do, or not do, with the property has been an ongoing one for a series…
Meet Your Neighbours – Annie Coltman: healing with…
By Sue Tiffin When Annie Coltman takes an interest in something, it leads to joy and delight from others. But there’s more to it than that, for Coltman. “It goes way back with…
School trustees work to maintain safe practice as…
By Sue Tiffin Bruce Reain, Trillium Lakelands District School Board board chairperson, said school trustees knew back in March, as soon as physical distancing was recommended and school closures were announced, that they were…
Class sizes unlikely to shrink, despite fewer pupils…
By Sue Tiffin Trillium Lakelands District School Board has “collapsed” some classrooms, combining classrooms – including two different grades – to ensure required class size averages are met to receive government funding. Cathy…
AH passes fireworks bylaw
By Chad Ingram Algonquin Highlands council passed a new fireworks bylaw for the township during a Sept. 3 meeting, that bylaw relegating the use of fireworks to certain holidays, banning the sale and use of…
Minden business asks customers not to wear masks
By Sue Tiffin A sign advising customers not to wear masks when in the store is posted at a Minden business that also faced substantial public criticism in March for declaring the coronavirus a…
MH pitches in on Bob Lake consultation costs
By Chad Ingram The Township of Minden Hills will provide up to $5,000 to the Bob Lake Association for legal consulting costs regarding a proposal for a new boat launch on the lake. …
AH plans for fall colours traffic, despite tower…
By Chad Ingram While the Dorset tower in Algonquin Highlands remains closed amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the township is still preparing to control traffic as leaf-lookers make their way to the area to check…
Dailloux pitches sale of Stanhope Airport
By Chad Ingram During a Sept. 3 meeting of Algonquin Highlands council, Councillor Jennifer Dailloux suggested the township consider selling the Stanhope Airport, or closing it, or ceding it to the Ministry of Natural…
Library branches to reopen to public
Haliburton County Public Library announced that as of Tuesday, Sept. 8 select branches would reopen to the public after several months of closure due to coronavirus precautions. Haliburton, Minden and Wilberforce branches will be offering…
CERB payment on the way, CRA says
By Chad Ingram Any county residents who've not received their September payment of the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit this week should receive it within a number of days, the Canadian Revenue Agency says. On the…
Blood pressure
By Laurie Sweig I have to admit I knew very little about blood pressure until writing this article. I did know that having a blood pressure reading that is too high or too low…
Adventures in berry-picking
To the Editor,I would like to comment on the article by Steve Galea writing about his experience picking blackberries. I enjoyed the article as it brought back many memories about picking those delicious berries many…
Jim Mifflin – A Man’s Barber
To the Editor,Jim died unexpectedly on Aug. 11 at the Peterborough Hospital where he had gone for surgery. In his 87th year, he had been barbering since being trained in his father’s shop in Whitby…
Killing the cormorants
By Jim Poling Sr. The big black bird controversy that got its modern start almost 400 years ago is raging again.It was back in the 1660s that the English poet John Milton stoked the controversy…
Meet Your Neighbours – For the love of…
By Sue Tiffin It was around 1979 when Larry Parsons was coming up to a cottage on Brady Lake, bombing along the Queen’s Line through Minden that he heard the voice of his future wife.…
Improvements for Minden Whitewater continue
By Darren Lum Close to $8,000 worth of restoration work was performed last week at the Minden Whitewater Preserve to address safety concerns for paddlers and to improve spawning areas on the Gull River,…