By Chad Ingram Published Oct. 4 2018 Some 350 people packed the Minden Hills Community Centre to standing-room-only capacity on the evening of Sept. 27 to hear from hopefuls for the upcoming council term. Hosted…
HHHS plans to eliminate $250K deficit by March…
The following are brief reports of items discussed during the Sept. 27 meeting of the Haliburton Highlands Health Services board. Haliburton Highlands Health Services is working to return to a balanced budget following news of…
Work to commence on arena project
Work on the reconstruction of the Minden Hills Community Centre and S.G. Nesbitt Memorial Arena is commencing. During a Sept. 27 meeting Minden Hills councillors agreed to send a letter of intent to Ottawa’s MacDonald…
Candidate Q&A – Minden Hills
The Minden Times sent the following five questions to the candidates for Minden Hills council. 1. Provide an introduction to yourself. (This could be about how you came to the area your hobbies and interests…
Residents decry end of basic income pilot project
A group of county residents is criticizing the Ford government’s decision to end the province’s basic income pilot project calling it a devastating experience for those affected and a lost opportunity for Ontario to distinguish…
Algonquin Highlands signs deal with Rogers
Algonquin Highlands is entering an agreement with Rogers for the installation of equipment at the Dorset tower that will improve cell service in the township. Back in July Rogers reps came to council looking for…
Blue-green algae bloom confirmed in county
A blue-green algae bloom was confirmed on Big Brother Lake in Algonquin Highlands earlier this month. Although the bloom has since dissipated the township and the Coalition of Haliburton Property Owners’ Associations are advising residents…
Gord Jones: Playing with light in winter
By Chad Ingram Sept. It’s the play of light and shadow that attracts Gord Jones to painting wintry scenes. The Kushog Lake resident and watercolour artist is part of the Haliburton County Studio Tour which…
Pottery in the Forest opens studio in the…
By Sue Tiffin Published Sept. 25 2018 Not long after Bernie Nicholson retired two years ago from her job in the employment centre at Fleming College she set up a 50-by-25-foot studio 10 feet away…
AH candidates talk housing cell service
Four candidates – two for Ward 1 and two for Ward 3 – presented their perspectives to voters at the Algonquin Highlands all-candidates meeting on Sept. 13 at the Dorset Recreation Centre. Topics ranged from…
Biologist cites concerns over landfill
A species-at-risk-biologist says he has concerns about potential groundwater contamination stemming from the Irondale landfill and its implications for wildlife and is requesting that Minden Hills council close and cap the site transforming it into…
Candidates weigh in on Dorset library
Algonquin Highlands council candidates were asked about the future of the Dorset library branch during an all-candidates meeting on Sept. 13 and all seem in favour of maintaining library services in one way or another.…
Minden Hills to cull the gulls
The Township of Minden Hills will move ahead with a plan to rid the Scotch Line landfill and nearby Mountain Lake of hundreds of seagulls a multi-pronged process that will entail killing some of the…
Minden raises almost $18K for 25th Terry Fox…
At the beginning of the year Terry Fox Run organizer Diane Peacock attended an annual organizers’ workshop where she had the opportunity to hear the nurse who looked after Terry speak. “She’s 83 years old…
Rally honours struggles of suffrage
By Sue Tiffin Published Sept. 20 2018 One hundred years ago it might have been commonplace to see women dressed in period clothing walking down Bobcaygeon Road toward the Village Green to join together rally…
Rotary Park greener for TD Tree Days
By Sue Tiffin Published Sept. 20 2018 Early into the annual TD Tree Days planting event in Minden last Saturday volunteers were dripping with sweat and swatting away pesky bugs along the shoreline of Rotary…
MPP Scott defends use of notwithstanding clause
By Chad Ingram Published Sept. 18, 2018 Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock MPP and Ontario Labour Minister Laurie Scott is defending the Ford government’s unprecedented use of the notwithstanding clause to override a judge’s decision, allowing the…
ETFO takes legal action against province
The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario is taking legal action against the provincial government seeking a court injunction against the repeal of the 2015 physical and health education curriculum as well as the creation of…
Fred Fox praises Minden run
Tears applause and a standing ovation spoke volumes about what it meant to the people of Minden to see Fred Fox Terry Fox’s older brother speak at the Minden Hills Community Centre. Fred who is…
Judy Flieger awarded lifetime membership by Legion
Basking in the afternoon sunlight Judy Flieger accepted her lifetime membership from friends and comrades at the Royal Canadian Legion branch 636 Minden on Saturday Sept. 8. Flieger earned the award for outstanding service and…
Minden's O'Malley one happy camper
By Sue Tiffin Published Sept. 13 2018 When Teo O’Malley was six years old he went for the first time on a week-long camping program at Camp Medeba a summer camp and outdoor education centre…