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…
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…
Hatchery funding included in county budget
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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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…
County heading for 3.85 per cent tax hike
By Chad Ingram Councillors on Haliburton County’s finance and correspondence committee are recommending the municipality contribute an extra $280000 to reserves in 2016 which would result in a 3.85 per cent tax rate increase at…
HHOA funding question back on county table
By Chad Ingram It was a familiar discussion. Haliburton County councillors are torn on how to handle a grant request from the Haliburton Highlands Outdoors Association which operates the Haliburton fish hatchery. Members of the…
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…
Fire destroys South Lake home
By Chad Ingram A Minden family has lost their home and apet after a fire destroyed a house on South Lake on Jan. 12. Minden Hills fire chief Doug Schell saidthe department got the first…
Tourist info centre likely to close
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Grants roll in for area projects
By Jenn Watt Two area not-for-profits and one municipality are moving forward with community projects after their applications were accepted by the Ontario Trillium Foundation. The Arts Council ~ Haliburton Highlands secured the largest grant…
HCSA getting trails open for season
By Chad Ingram Winter’s late arrival in Haliburton County this year is not having much of an impact for the Haliburton County Snowmobile Association. While the snow may have come late it all came at…
Making friends with Muscle Shoals
By Chad Ingram It was a showing of Muscle Shoals at Haliburton’s Those Other Movies that led county residents Jim and Bernie Davis to the Alabama town for which the documentary is named. The film…
Nominations open for business and community awards
By Jenn Watt Bernie and Jim Davis are avid travellers and wherever they go they are interacting with frontline staff at restaurants grocery stores and gas stations. Their impression of any town or region is…
Coboconk cottage explodes
By Chad Ingram Two people were injured and the firemarshal's office is investigating after a cottage near Coboconk exploded duringthe weekend. Kawartha Lakes OPP officers were called tothe seasonal residence on Normwood Drive at approximately…