By Darren Lum Published Feb. 9 2017 This year’s recipient of the 2017 MusiCounts Teacher of the Year Award has a strong Highlands connection. With friends family and her students looking on Dianne Winmill originally…

By Chad Ingram Published April 6 2017 The following are brief reports of items discussed during a March 30 meeting of Minden Hills council. Minden Hills will spend $35000 on an automated sandbagging machine that…

By Chad Ingram Published April 6 2017 The Ministry of the Attorney General is working on filling a lack of justices of the peace that is causing provincial offences and small claims court proceedings to…

By Jenn Watt Published April 6 2017 Hydro rates are one of the most important issues to Ontarians right now. Polling indicates that above all other issues more people in the province choose electricity as…

By Chad Ingram Published April 6 2017 Veteran planner Greg Bishop gave Minden Hills councillors a thorough history lesson on shoreline road allowances during their March 30 meeting. Bishop made his presentation in response to…

By Darren Lum Published March 30 2017 Standing steps from Nature’s Place in Minden it’s difficult to see past the detritus left behind from the snow melt on the One to Three Youth Garden at…

Published March 30 2017 Algonquin Highlands council will get advice from a lawyer regarding residents of Bear Lake Road hiring a contractor to clear snow from the roadway during the winter. Township staff received an…

By Chad Ingram Published March 30 2017 Councillors passed the 2017 budget with total spending of approximately $8.8 million approximately $4.7 million of that levied from property taxes. That represents a 7.7 per cent increase…

By Chad Ingram Published March 28 2017 The following are brief reports of items discussed during a March 22 meeting of Haliburton County council. Councillors passed the 2017 budget which includes total spending of $21.6…

By Chad Ingram Published March 28 2017 Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock MP Jamie Schmale doesn’t believe the riding will benefit much from the Trudeau government’s second budget. Finance minister Bill Morneau unveiled the 2017 federal budget in…

By Chad Ingram Published March 30 3017 Canada’s opposition parties say the Liberal government wants a four-day work week for Parliamentarians and they’re not OK with that. The government is proposing a number of procedural…

By Chad Ingram Published March 30 2017 Updated April 12 2017 The operator of a sewage-spreading field near Maple Lake is applying to the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change for an expansion and the…

By Jenn Watt Published March 30 2017 Jennifer Semach wants to create an inclusive healing environment at Walkabout Farm. Using a herd of horses and potentially other barnyard animals the equestrian is turning her passion…

By Chad Ingram Published March 23 2017 A Minden Hills man who operates his crane business by day spends his weekends as one of the continent’s best sharp shooters. Chuck Hopkins competes through what is…

By Chad Ingram “I'm constrained by the decorum ofthis chamber to limit myself to language that's appropriate” saidHaliburton County Warden Brent Devolin during a March 22 countycouncil meeting. Devolin was reacting to notification thatprovincial offences…

By Angelica Ingram Pubilshed March 23 2017 Allsaw Pentecostal Church is once again ready to spruce up your home and property with their third annual workday fundraiser this spring. The church located halfway between Haliburton…

By Chad Ingram Published March 23 2017 Minden Hills council cost just more than $162000 to operate for 2016. Councillors for the township received a report on their remuneration for last year at this month’s…

By Chad Ingram Published March 23 2017 In all councillors from the county expensed just more than $16230 in costs during the recent Rural Ontario Municipal Association conference which took place at Toronto’s Sheraton Centre…

By Chad Ingram Published March 23 2017 Many Canadians felt they knew Stuart McLean listening to his unique and familiar voice read his stories on CBC Radio for years. But John Sheard really knew McLean…

By Chad Ingram Published March 23 2017 100 Women Who Care Haliburton County will have its second meeting at Minden’s Dominion Hotel on Wednesday March 29. It will be the second meeting of the group…

By Jenn Watt Published March 21 2017 The YWCA’s matching donations program has been embraced so whole-heartedly that by the end of March the organization will likely be unable to find matching funds for new…