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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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”…
Driver turns self in after hit-and-run
By Chad Ingram The driver in a hit-and-run incident that occurred in Minden early Sunday morning has turned himself in to police. On Sept. 13 the Haliburton Highlands OPP reported a man had been critically…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
Algonquin Highlands quashes hydro projects
By Chad Ingram Algonquin Highlands council declined support resolutions for proposed hydro and solar feed-in-tariff (FIT) projects in the township during a Sept. 3 meeting. Patrick Gillette of CRD Energy Consultants visited councillors Thursday looking…
Candidates gear up for election
By Jenn Watt While most of us saw the month of August as a time to catch some sun and relax candidates running for federal government have been busy knocking on doors and meeting voters.…
Dorset tower structurally sound: study
By Chad Ingram The following are brief items discussed during a Sept. 3 meeting of Algonquin Highlands council. The township’s lookout tower at Dorset has no major structural issues an inspection by Tulloch Engineering conducted…
Intelligent policing changing the game for local OPP
By Elizabeth Bate This spring one of Haliburton County’s OPP officers was hot on the trail of a citizen with sticky fingers. Coming up with a plan to stop the motor vehicle thefts took wits…
Jane Austin named Citizen of the Year
By Chad Ingram She’s an educator choir director and multi-faceted volunteer from one of Kinmount’s founding families. And as of last Friday she’s also the community’s 2015 Citizen of the Year. The Kinmount Lions Club…
Land trust director resigns
By Angelica Ingram The Haliburton Highlands Land Trust is once again without an executive director following Patrick Kennedy’s resignation from the organization last week. The Land Trust issued a press release on Sept. 4 stating…