By Darren Lum Opposition to a proposed salvage yard south of Minden is growing. Only days after a Minden Hills Council meeting where Hunter Creek Estates residents and members of the Gull Lake Cottage Association…
Beech bark disease poses public safety risk
Not only is beech bark disease plaguing Haliburton County but decaying beech trees can be a risk to public safety. Ernie Demuth of the Bancroft Minden Forest Company made a presentation to county councillors at…
Poverty action plan outlines barriers to employment
By Chad Ingram Addressing barriers to employment and continuing education – such as transportation and affordable child care and housing – could help reduce poverty in Haliburton County. Executive director of the Kawartha Lakes Family…
Residents protest salvage yard proposal
Minden Hills councillors were met with a throng of protesters as they entered the township building for their Nov. 26 meeting Hunter Creek Estates residents are unhappy about an application for a salvage yard south…
Success with turtle mortality project
By Chad Ingram A project aimed at reducing the number of turtle deaths by car is yielding some positive results. Sheila Ziman and Paul Heaven of the Haliburton Highlands Land Trust visited Minden Hills councillors…
Trent Severn flows into Minden
By Chad Ingram From a real-life maple syrup heist to the Bluenose to the sweet relief of a snow day the music of Trent Severn is thoroughly interwoven with the white and red threads of…
Exchange opens the world to Highlands teen
By Darren Lum It was an emotional farewell for the Highlands teenage girl with the large smile and enthusiasm for life who found more than adventure on her recent exchange trip to Argentina facilitated by…
Jane Siberry to perform in Minden
By Chad Ingram Calling all angels. Eclectic and critically acclaimedrecording artist Jane Siberry will be performing in Minden in earlyDecember as part of the Christmas pageant at St. Paul's AnglicanChurch and in her own show…
Volume fees established for hall rentals
By Chad Ingram Algonquin Highlands has settled on arevised rental fee structure for its recreational halls and will bemaking changes to other fees as well. For the past few months councillorshave been discussing how to…
Convictions in Kennedy murder case
By Chad & Angelica Ingram Three of the four men charged with murder in the 2011 killing of Haliburton County man Ryan Kennedy have been convicted on various charges. Kennedy was killed on Oct. 19…
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By Chad Ingram Algonquin Highlands township became thesecond of Haliburton County's four lower-tier municipalities tosupport the David Suzuki Foundation's Blue Dot movement during a Nov.19 meeting of council. The Blue Dot movement is a nationalcampaign…
Health team will have to replace docs
By Chad Ingram The Haliburton Highlands Family Health Team will likely need to replace five doctors during the next two or so years. Algonquin Highlands Deputy-reeve Liz Danielsen who sits on Haliburton County's medical professionals…
Astrid Young brings folk music to Minden
By Angelica Ingram To say Astrid Young is a chameleon when it comes to careers is an understatement. A singer/songwriter Astrid has been a professional musician for decades but has also penned a memoir made…
Bringing down Pritchard House
By Chad Ingram Minden Hills council will demolish the Pritchard House along with another house the township owns at 2 Prince St. The township is already set to demolish the Gelert hall and a works…
One Book One Community aims to bring book…
September marks a return to school and as the kids are hitting the books so too is the county of Haliburton. Aiming to bring together book-lovers from across the county the winner of this summer’s…
OPP costs wallop Minden Hills
By Chad Ingram The following are brief reports of items discussed during a Nov. 12 Minden Hills committee-of-the-whole meeting. Minden Hills’s policing costs will jump by 27 per cent in 2016 a $391000 increase representing…
Scrap yard proposal unpopular
By Chad Ingram A plan to turn a former quarry off Highway 35 south of Minden into an automotive salvage yard is getting a rough ride from some area residents. A public meeting on the…
Searching for high-speed Internet
Haliburton County is still trying to get reliable high-speed Internet to residents who do not have it. County treasurer Laura Janke presented a report on Internet at municipal offices during a Nov. 11 meeting of…
Tracing increasings roads costs in Minden Hills
By Chad Ingram The price of roads work in Minden Hills has increased substantially during the past five years. Roads director Travis Wilson gave councillors a five-year cost comparison for his department during their Nov.…
Market to return to Minden
By Chad Ingram <!--@page { margin: 2cm }P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm }--> The Haliburton County Farmers'Association plans to return to Minden next season. 2015 was the first year theassociation which runs successful markets in Carnarvon…
OPP investigate cruiser crash
An OPP cruiser crashed off County Road 21 just east of Minden last week leaving a wake of ripped up grass before coming to its final resting place slanted against a phone pole. The single-vehicle…