By Chad Ingram Some Minden Hills councillors are less than pleased with the township’s new parks and trails master plan but the township’s reeve says the plan is a living document that can be added…
Minden Hills denies support for eight solar projects
By Chad Ingram Minden Hills councillors denied a support resolution for eight proposed projects by Toronto’s Abundant Solar Energy Inc. during a special meeting Sept. 10. Council had been approached by reps from the company…
Children’s water fest deferred to 2016
By Angelica Blenich Irene Heaven waited until the last possible day until she made a decision she really didn’t want to make. The co-ordinator for the Haliburton-Muskoka-Kawartha Children’s Water Festival Heaven has been spearheading the…
Fighting for long-term care beds
By Chad Ingram The Central East LHIN says it’s trying to maintain the number of long-term care beds in Haliburton County but provincially mandated requirements are making the future of 60 of the community’s beds…
Intoxicated driver kills moose
A moose is dead and a woman charged with drunk driving after a collision on Highway 118 in the early morning hours of Sunday Sept. 27. Haliburton Highlands OPP say officers responded to a report…
Gala recognizes environmental contributions
By Angelica Ingram Quietly behind the scenes there are many organizations and groups doing great work on environmental causes just because they care. On Sept. 27 the Haliburton Highlands Land Trust recognized a select few…
Huge crowd for debate
By Chad Ingram Haliburton County residents peppered their federal candidates with questions on everything from environmental policy to F-35s to proportional representation to access to information at a candidates’ meeting Monday night. Hundreds packed the…
Finding Lyle Boice
By Darren Lum The following story marks Legion Week a provincial celebration of the organizations dedicated to veterans. When the parachute bomb silently fell in Nijmegen The Netherlands during the Second World War 22-year-old Lyle…
Algonquin Highlands begins office expansion
By Chad Ingram Algonquin Highlands councillors took preliminary steps toward an expansion of the township office on North Shore Road during a Sept. 17 meeting. For years it’s been mentioned that the office constructed in…
A taste of the forest
By Darren Lum It’s unknown how much the rain on Saturday put a damper on this year’s 13th annual Hike Haliburton Festival. Marketed as the largest hiking festival in Canada with 70 guided hikes across…
Kids toss melons from tower
By Chad Ingram Don’t throw watermelons from the Dorset lookout tower. During a Sept. 17 Algonquin Highlands council meeting parks rec and trails director Dave Drobitch told councillors that in August staff at the tower…
Getting inked on Bobcaygeon Road
By Chad Ingram “It started when I got my first one” says Tom Tucker. “They are a very addictive thing.” Tucker is talking about tattoos which travel from beneath his shirtsleeve down a bicep across…
Education workers begin job action
By Angelica Ingram While just weeks ago representatives from the Trillium Lakelands District School Board were hopeful the provincial government would reach a deal with the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario talks between the two…
TSW feeder lakes need unified voice: CEWF
By Chad Ingram Greater attention to trout spawning and loon nesting are some goals for the Coalition for Equitable Water Flow but first the organization is determined to create a new group that will speak…
Video: Meet the candidates for Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock
The Haliburton Echo and Minden Times along with Positive Media Productions sat down with the four candidates running for federal office in Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock ahead of the all-candidates meeting on Sept. 21.We asked them to…
Township considers new speed signage for river
By Chad Ingram Minden Hills township is looking at new speed limit signage reminding boaters to slow down on the Gull River. Residents along the five-kilometre stretch of river between Gull Lake and Minden’s Rotary…
Plan recommends new trails
By Chad Ingram A trail connecting Riverwalk to Rotary Park. A trail connecting Rotary Park to the Minden fairgrounds. A trail connecting Panorama Park to the village. These are some of the recommendations laid out…
Minden Hills may look for partners on transit
By Chad Ingram Minden Hills council is wondering if neighbouring municipalities may be interested in partnering on some kind of transit project. During their Sept. 10 committee-of-the-whole meeting Minden Hills councillors received a staff report…
Laurie Scott given new title as MPP heads…
By Angelica Ingram As Ontario MPPs head back to the provincial legislature this week Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock representative Laurie Scott will be wearing a new hat. Following a shuffle by PC party leader Patrick Brown last…
Dream transit system mapped in T-shirt form
By Darren Lum Just imagine if Haliburton County is a bustling metropolis. That’s what André Nichol a 2003 Haliburton Highlands Secondary School graduate and GIS (Geographic Information Systems) professional did to create the “fantasy map”…
New county tourism website to debut later this…
By Chad Ingram The following are brief reports of items discussed during county advisory committee meetings on Sept. 9. Haliburton County’s new tourism website will go live later this month likely the week of Sept.…