By Angelica Ingram Published May 31 2018 If you’re planning on heading to the 154th annual Haliburton County Fair on June 9 you may have a superhero sighting. This year’s fair will feature much of…
County gets disaster mitigation funding
By Chad Ingram Published by May 31 2018 The County of Haliburton has approved for funding from the National Disaster Mitigation Program to assist with flood prevention planning. The county applied for the funding nearly…
Provincial candidates square off
While he wasn’t in the room PC leader Doug Ford loomed large during a provincial all-candidates’ meeting Monday with a number of references to the party leader and the fact that just 10 days before…
Valedictorian: ‘We all have futures thanks to HSAD’
By Olivia Robinson Published May 31 2018 Outside it was a grey afternoon at the Haliburton School of Art + Design for the May 25 convocation but valedictorian Amy Black’s speech made the day brighter.…
Longtime Minden ER doc retires
Many county residents have likely at one time or another received care from Dr. Douglas Fiddler. Fiddler a longtime physician with the emergency department at the Minden hospital was piped and applauded out of the…
New online tool matches native plants to properties
By Chad Ingram Published May 31 2018 A new online tool from the Coalition of Haliburton Property Owners’ Association (CHA) allows residents to discover what types of native vegetation best suit their properties as they…
StoryWalk engages young readers outdoors
By Sue Tiffin Published May 31 2018 A bird’s eye view of the Minden Hills Cultural Centre and Museum grounds on the morning of May 25 would have shown parades of children heading there for…
HKLB Green party candidate declines media interviews
By Chad Ingram Published May 25 2018 Apparently the Green party candidatein Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock will not be conducting mediainterviews leading up to the June 7 provincial election. The party has confirmed that LynnTherien is the…
County commits to mobile broadband expansion project
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Couple of fans talk sci-fi video games
By Sue Tiffin Published May 24, 2018 Through a voice-activated X-Box, The Flash television series is paused in Trevor Clement and Christine Barnes’s living room. The Minden couple sit on their couch surrounded by…
Housing task force gathers public input
This past Saturday was the beginning of an ongoing effort to learn what the public wants when it comes to meeting housing needs in Minden. The Minden Hills Housing Task Force invited the public to…
Mixed bag on cap and trade
While some provincial candidates in Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock favour Ontario’s cap-and-trade system others oppose it and one does not have a position on the issue. The system sets a cap on the amount of greenhouse gas…
Nature's Place home to new climate change display
By Olivia Robinson Published May 24 2018 Disease. Infestation. Extreme weather. These are just a few of the consequences of human caused climate change in Haliburton County as highlighted in a new Environment Haliburton! display…
Some voters make statement by declining ballots
By Chad Ingram Published May 24 2018 There seems to be some dissatisfaction province-wide about the choices before Ontarians for the June 7 provincial election. The more apathetic among us may choose not to vote…
Two more candidates enter provincial race
By Chad Ingram Published May 24 2018 H aliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock has two more candidates for the June 7 provincial election bringing the total number of candidates in the riding to seven. Lynn Therien will run…
Candidate runs under Consensus Ontario banner
By Chad Ingram Published May 17 2018 Chuck MacMillan says the partisan political system fails Ontarians since MPPs become beholden to the directives of their parties often forgetting about the priorities of their ridings along…
Campaign offers prizes to parents who read with…
Published May 15 2018 Discover a rewards program…no purchase is required. The #ReadWithMe campaign is designed to “reward” parents/caregivers who read with their children during Speech and Hearing Month in May. Local families can win…
Romeo and Juliet ignites summer theatre season
By Angelica Ingram Published May 15 2018 A famous balcony two dueling families and many kisses will be coming to the Highlands as the 2018 season of the Highlands Summer Festival kicks off with Romeo…
ASES Leadership Day proves together is better
“Great happens here” said Archie Stouffer Elementary School students in a video presented on Leadership Day May 11 to an assembly gathered at the school. By the time the day showcasing the schools’ focus on…
Author encourages writers to ‘write with intention’
Ruth E. Walker an Oshawa-based author welcomes a group of writers at an intimate gathering at the Minden Hills Cultural Centre with a powerful statement – that even she didn’t know she was a writer…
Bioheat system sparks council's interest
The village of Haliburton may not be the only community in the county getting a wood-fuelled district heat system for its downtown. Jamie Stephen of Torchlight Bioresources visited Minden Hills councillors during their May 10…