By Jenn Watt Published April 19 2017 You have until Earth Day to order your native plants from Friends of Ecological and Environmental Learning. From shrubs to trees flowers to ferns there’s a wide variety…
College honours officer’s work
By Darren Lum Published April 20 2017 Haliburton Highlands OPP Const. Tim Negus was awarded an Outstanding Police Officer Service Award on Monday April 10 at the Fleming College’s Sutherland campus in Peterborough. Started three…
Dorset bridge work begins
By Sue Tiffin Published April 20 2017 The following are brief reports of items discussed during an April 12 Haliburton County council meeting. Rehabilitation work on Dorset’s Main Street bridge began April 3. The bridge…
Easter Bunny keeps little ones busy
By Lee Ross Published April 20 2017 The Easter bunny made a special trip to the Pavilion in Dorset this past Easter weekend hiding hundreds of brightly coloured eggs for the children of Dorset to…
Mindfulness program reduces anxiety pain depression
By Jerelyn Craden Special to the Times Published April 20 2017 Ellen King knows that a 10-week course called Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) works. She took it 17 years ago when she was diagnosed…
New rules for recreational drone users
By Darren Lum Published April 20 2017 New rules recently announced by Transport Canada are leaving recreation drone users like Carol Moffatt wondering if they go too far restricting responsible operators to the detriment of…
Places for People celebrates new housing option
By Darren Lum Published April 20 2017 Places for People hosted an open house for their most recent completed project on McPherson street steps from the Minden hospital on April 12. With the help of…
Seven win character awards at county schools
Published April 20 2017 Seven giving members of the community are smiling more brightly with the news they’ve been selected to receive a 2016 Character Award from the Trillium Lakelands District School Board. Michele Coneybeare…
Tickets on sale for concert series
The 39th season for the Haliburton Concert Series is going to be filled with amazing musicians and wonderful music. The season begins on Saturday May 6 with Guy and Nadina . Guy Few (trumpet and…
ASES students create a musical legacy
By Darren Lum Published April 13 2017 Earlier this month local students were singing loudly and proudly sharing their legacy with their peers. Fifty Archie Stouffer Elementary School students from Grades 2 to 8 collaborated…
Council approves PTSD plan for fire dept
By Chad Ingram Published April 13, 2017 The following are brief reports of items discussed during an April meeting of Algonquin Highlands council. Councillors approved a post-traumatic stress disorder prevention plan and anti-stigma policy for…
Housing demand surprises Places for People organizer
By Jenn Watt Published April 13 2017 Fay Martin discovered the breadth of demand for housing when her not-for-profit Places for People advertised a rental house for the first time to the general population. At…
Library offers exploration of technology
By Darren Lum Published April 13 2017 After five workshop sessions 14 Haliburton Home School students were excited about what they learned from the Tinker Lab pilot program offered at the Minden branch of the…
Minden Times takes second Poling named Columnist of the…
The Minden Times was awarded second place in its circulation category at the Ontario Community Newspaper Association Better Newspaper Awards in Toronto on April 7. The annual awards dinner follows the OCNA convention and is…
MPP alarmed at long-term care wait times
By Chad Ingram Published April 12 2017 Combined there are more than 110 people on the waiting list for basic beds at Minden’s Hyland Crest and Haliburton’s Highland Wood long-term care homes and they could…
MPP launches petition to keep court inMinden
By Jenn Watt Published April 12 2017 Following news that the provincialoffences court in Minden would be closed from July of 2017 to July of2018 local MPP Laurie Scott has launched a petition. Likening this…
Scott’s bill would require sex assault training for…
Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock MPP Laurie Scott has tabled another private member’s bill one calling for mandatory sexual assault training for judges. Scott tabled the Mandatory Sexual Assault Law Training for Judicial Officers Act in Queen’s Park…
Call for nominations: Canada 150 awards
Local MP Jamie Schmale is asking fornominations of those who should be recognized for their contributionsto the riding for Canada 150 Awards. These awards will be given out in Julyfrom individuals in 15 categories that…
Reporter returns 21 years later Reporter returns to…
By Sue Tiffin Published April 6 2016 Things have changed a bit since the last time I started writingfrom the offices of the Haliburton County Echo . It was Marchthen too but it was 21…
Council goes with flat fee for compactor trucks
By Chad Ingram Published April 6 2017 After considerable conversation Minden Hills council has settled on a flat fee of $35 per cubic yard of waste from compactor trucks at the Scotch Line landfill and…
Council sets timeline for development plan
By Chad Ingram Published April 6 2017 Minden Hills council is embarking on an economic development strategic plan for the municipality it aims to have completed before the current council term is over in late…