By Angelica Ingram When Mary Trepanier was at a fundraising gala she kept getting outbid on a painting she had her eye on. President of the Friends of the Haliburton County Public Library Trepanier wanted…

By Angelica Ingram With approximately $46000 raised to date the Haliburton Refugee Sponsorship Committee has made significant strides since it was established last fall. On Sunday April 10 the committee is looking to add to…

By Chad Ingram Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock MP Jamie Schmale had the largest campaign budget of the four candidates for the riding in last October’s federal election a report from Elections Canada shows. Schmale’s grand total of…

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By Chad Ingram The City of Kawartha Lakes which is the social and housing services provider for both the City and the County of Haliburton is joining the 20000 Homes Campaign a program that aims…

By Chad Ingram A private member’s bill from a Toronto MP ruffling the feathers of some hunters and fishermen is unlikely to ever become law. Bill C-246 tabled by Beaches-East York MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith is…

“I want you to learn different ways of cooking eggs” says Marilynne Lesperance as she flips her toad in the hole – a fried egg in toast. Lesperance chairwoman of the Minden Food Bank and…

By Chad Ingram Demand for locally produced food far outweighs its production. That finding is part of a recently completed community food assessment results of which were presented to Haliburton County councillors by Highlands East…

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry’s emergency response base at the Stanhope Airport is on schedule for staff to move in by early April. Control of the facility will be turned over to the…

By Darren Lum David Flowers said he wasn’t on the job at the Ministry of Natural Resources here for two weeks before he appeared in the Minden Times newspaper. So it’s fitting that after 19…

By Chad Ingram The impact of a subdivision planned for the east and south shores of Bark Lake in Highlands East on the waterbody itself would be negligible a consultant for the project told Haliburton…

By Chad Ingram “Basically I was shocked at the amount ofdeficit spending the Liberals are doing” says Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-BrockMP Jamie Schmale of the federal budget. Unveiled March 22 the budget includes adeficit of $29.4 billion…

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By Angelica Ingram For the second year in a row congregation members from Allsaw Church are hoping to come to your home or cottage to paint clean garden and much more. The initiative is part…

By Chad Ingram “At Christmas a bunch of friends were together thinking how could we augment the food bank?” says Diane Dawson of Gelert. Someone mentioned more toiletry items could be useful. “Somebody said ‘I…

While Haliburton Highlands Health Services is not equipped with childbirth centres that didn’t stop the medical team at the Minden facility from delivering a baby last month. When Carnarvon resident Christine Mansi started having cramps…

By Jenn Watt Starting this September the 54 bus routes in Haliburton County once conducted by First Student Bus Lines will be taken over by another company. Kawartha Lakes Busing which already serves the City…

By Chad Ingram Above average temperatures during late winter in Haliburton County have maple sap flowing earlier than usual but this does not necessarily mean a poor season is in store for local syrup producers.…

On Feb. 5 Norm’s Smokehouse owner Norman Weber pleaded guilty in the Minden provincial offences court to one count of interfering with detained meat products without authorization. The offence which falls under the Ontario Food…

The Young Eagles program which has taken young people into the skies above Haliburton County each summer for many years will soar again this summer. Late last year it seemed like the program which operates…

By Chad Ingram P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; Residents in Algonquin Highlands canexpect their property taxes to increase 5.2 per cent in 2016 aftercouncillors passed this year's budget at a March 17 meeting. That tax increase…