By Chad Ingram Minden Hills council is supporting anagreement between Haliburton County and Bell to bring or improvehigh-speed broadband Internet to a number of public buildings in thecounty. Council granted support after hearing apresentation from…
Talks break off between union and school board
By Angelica Ingram After just a couple of hours talks between the Trillium Lakelands District School Board and the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation ended. The negotiations were called off on Feb. 4 by the…
Provincial directives trouble health unit
By Chad Ingram The Haliburton Kawartha Pine Ridge District Health Unit has concerns about the implications of funding and potential accountability changes coming from the province. Last fall the health unit learned it would be…
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Catch the Cure on Feb. 13 Submitted International Angelman Day takes place on February 15 and Minden Hills celebrates IAD on Feb. 13 with a party hosted by service clubs teachers businesses organizations individuals the…
Group looking for info on ride-sharing
By Chad Ingram Do you regularly hitch rides with friends or give rides to others? The Community Transportation Partnership run by a group focused on rural transportation options for the county has hired consultant Kate…
AH buys into broadband expansion project
By Chad Ingram Algonquin Highlands council has lentits support to a high-speed Internet expansion deal betweenHaliburton County and Bell and the township will reimburse the countyfor service fees for Algonquin Highlands buildings that will benefitfrom…
Kids waiting for Big Brothers or Sisters in…
By Jenn Watt When a young person “ages out” of the Big Brothers Big Sisters program before ever being matched with an adult it breaks Alyssa Wilson’s heart. Wilson is a case manager with Big…
County signs new broadband deal
By Chad Ingram Haliburton County is entering into a new agreement with Bell for the provision of high-speed Internet to a number of publicly owned buildings that will increase the number of public wireless hotspots…
Tourist info centre to close at year's end
By Chad Ingram Haliburton County will close its tourist information centre along Highway 35 in Minden at the end of the year. County councillors made that decision during a Jan. 27 council meeting. At a…
Minden Hills supports Blue Dot movement
By Chad Ingram The following are brief reports of items discussed during a Jan. 28 meeting of Minden Hills council. Minden Hills councillors passed a resolution supporting the Blue Dot movement a campaign from the…
County grants bylaw relief for clear cut in…
By Chad Ingram County councillors have granted a request for relief from the the municipality’s tree-cutting bylaw for the clearing of six acres of a red pine plantation in Algonquin Highlands. The owner of a…
Hatchery funding included in county budget
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Massive cuts for cultural centre in MH budget
By Chad Ingram The Minden Hills Cultural Centre willget hit with a big funding cut in 2016 and likely one next year as well. During a Jan. 28 meeting Minden Hillscouncil ordered community services director…
Massive cuts for cultural centre in MHbudget
By Chad Ingram The Minden Hills Cultural Centre willget hit with a big funding cut in 2016 and likely one next year as well. During a Jan. 28 meeting Minden Hillscouncil ordered community services director…
Family health team managing amid cutbacks
By Chad Ingram The executive director of the Haliburton Highlands Family Health Team says the organization is managing amid provincial cutbacks. The provincial government and the province’s doctors have been without an agreement for more…
Schmale looking for funding priorities
By Chad Ingram Recently elected Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock MP Jamie Schmale told Algonquin Highlands councillors last week he’ll be working to get local townships as much of the billions of stimulus dollars being dished out by…
Art Hive closes its doors
By Chad Ingram “Burnout” says Erin Lynch explaining the decision to close the Art Hive along Highway 118 in Algonquin Highlands. “Predominantly it’s burnout.” For more than nine years the Art Hive Maple Lake Artisans…
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By Chad Ingram Algonquin Highlands will not bepartnering with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry on the maintenance of Sherborne Lake Road south of Dorset. Winding about 12 kilometres fromHighway 35 to the lake…
OPP launch safe sledding week
By Chad Ingram The OPP and the Ontario Federation ofSnowmobile Clubs (OFSC) are launching what they're calling ProvincialSnowmobile Safety Week from Jan. 16 to 24. The idea is to remind snowmobilers to focuson their own…
Man killed in snowmobile crash
<!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> By Chad Ingram A 51-year-old Tillsonburg man is deadafter a snowmobile crash in Gelert on Monday Jan. 18. According to the Haliburton HighlandsOPP…
Schmale pushes petition on electoral reform
By Chad Ingram If the federal government is going to change the electoral system then Canadians should have a vote says Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock MP Jamie Schmale. Schmale is inviting residents to sign a petition calling…