By Chad Ingram Published Dec. 22 2016 With a dumping of snow in the Highlands last week the Haliburton County Snowmobile Association is getting to work on the area’s trails sooner than usual. “We’re two…
Highlands hit by winter blast
December has been more wintry than in recent years bringing substantial snowfall and cold temperatures giving skiers snowshoers and snowmobilers reason to cheer. The last week delivered a wallop of the white stuff putting many…
Farmers' market looks for alternative Carnarvon locations
By Angelica Ingram Published Dec. 15 2016
Bob Lake price tag nearly $10K
By Chad Ingram Published Dec. 15 2016 It cost Minden Hills taxpayers nearly $10000 to get boats out of Bob Lake at the end of the summer after they were stranded in the lake by…
Funding shortfall forced YWCA to close safe space
By Angelica Ingram Published Dec. 15 2016 In November 2015 the Peterborough Haliburton chapter of the YWCA had to close the doors of their Haliburton Emergency Rural SafeSpace for the first time since it was…
Insurance rates to rise six per cent
The following are brief reports of items discussed during a Dec. 8 meeting of Minden Hills council. Insurance premiums for the township will rise about six per cent – or about $17000 – to bring…
MH defers Beaver Theatre request until new year
By Chad Ingram Published Dec. 15 2016 Minden Hills councillors will be deferring a decision on a request from the new owner of the former Beaver Theatre until the new year. During a Dec. 8…
MH expects surplus of $425000
By Chad Ingram Published Dec. 15 2016 Minden Hills township is anticipating a surplus of approximately $425000 for 2016. Factors such as weather – the roads department is estimating a surplus for the year of…
Minden Hills penalizes Fowler Construction
By Chad Ingram Published Dec. 15 2016 Minden Hills council has denied a request from Fowler Construction that the company get an extended timeline on a contract to relocate and expand a quonset hut near…
Province mum on Service Ontario office
By Chad Ingram Published Dec. 15 2016 The provincial government isn’t providing much information on the future of the Minden Service Ontario office. The Times initially learned in May that the province had plans to…
Rash of thefts in Highlands
Thieves have been hitting up homes and vehicles in the Haliburton Highlands and the police are reminding residents to lock up. In recent weeks there were numerous break and enters along Chambers Road near Twelve…
Teen charged in school board threat
A 16-year-old male from Gravenhurst was arrested and charged with mischief and uttering threats on Friday morning after Trillium Lakelands District School Board received a “generalized threat.” According to Bracebridge OPP the threat had been…
Council passes on live streaming meetings
By Chad Ingram Published Dec. 8 2016 Minden Hills council meetings won't belive-streamed on the Internet any time in the near future. Councillors decided to forgo spending moneyon a system that would allow council meetings…
Schmale happy with referendum recommendation
By Chad Ingram Published Dec. 8 2016 Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock MP Jamie Schmale is pleased that a parliamentary committee on electoral reform is recommending a national referendum take place on the overhauling of the federal electoral…
Breaking ground on palliative care centre
Construction on the new palliative care wing at the Haliburton Highlands Health Services facility in Haliburton Village is underway after an official groundbreaking ceremony Dec. 2. For two and half years the HHHS Foundation has…
Horseshoe Lake Road closes next week
A section of Horseshoe Lake Road will be closed for two months starting next week. Beginning Dec. 12 a portion of the road just south of Bethel Road will be closed to traffic as Parks…
MH housing project costs total $540K
By Chad Ingram Published Dec. 8 2016 All totalled the affordable housing complex being built near the S.G. Nesbitt Memorial Arena in Minden will cost Minden Hills township nearly $540000 – almost a quarter million…
NewsNewsHealth hub New LHIN chair
Physician recruitment efforts continue at HHHS By Chad Ingram Published Dec. 8 2016 The following are brief reports of items discussed during a Dec. 1 meeting of the Haliburton Highlands Health Services board. HHHS has…
Salad club offer fresh alternatives
When Jayla Bird ate the piece of freshly cut pineapple she had just donated the smile and subsequent exclamation of “yummy” was the signature sentiment at the latest offering of the Archie Stouffer Elementary School’s…
County council slows down ambulance purchase process
By Chad ingram Published Nov. 29 2016 County council is pressing pause on the purchase of a new ambulance pending more information. During a Nov. 23 meeting councillors denied budget pre-approval for the purchase of…
County upgrades to digital radios for roads department
Haliburton County will spend just over $100000 upgrading the radio system for its roads department to a digital format after a decision by county council on Nov. 23. Among the reasons roads director Craig Douglas…