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…
ASES parent advocating for more allergy awareness
By Angelica Ingram Every year around Halloween eight-year-old Maya Johnson gets nervous. A Grade 3 student at Archie Stouffer Elementary School Maya isn’t frightened by the scary costumes or haunting decorations she sees around the…
County residents go days without power
By Jenn Watt A storm that swept across Ontario on Friday downed hydro lines with 100-kilometre-an-hour winds knocking out power to thousands for days. Across Haliburton County there were more than 60 incidents investigated by…
HCSA gearing for municipal money for trails projects
By Chad Ingram The Haliburton County Snowmobile Association is seeking municipal funding to assist with trails projects. Reps from the HCSA visited Algonquin Highlands councillors during their Nov. 5 meeting. “The Ontario market is growing…
Health unit welcomes return of census
By Chad Ingram The Haliburton Kawartha Pine Ridge District Health Unit is welcoming last week’s announcement that the federal government will reinstate the mandatory long-form census. A day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his…
Ministry seeks partners on Sherborne Lake Road
By Chad Ingram The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry is looking for some help with the maintenance of Sherborne Lake Road south of Dorset. “The ministry is saying ‘we can’t continue to fund this…
No decision on rental fees yet
By Chad Ingram Algonquin Highlands continues to struggle to create an updated rental fees framework for its halls. Parks rec and trails director Dave Drobitch had brought a report before councillors at their Oct. 1…
OPP bills continue to pinch townships
By Chad Ingram Algonquin Highlands residents may want to brace for another property tax hike in 2016 much of it brought on by the township’s increasing OPP bill. 2016 will be the second-year in a…
Places for People seeking board members
By Chad Ingram Local non-profit affordable housing organization Places for People is seeking three new members for its board of directors. Places for People now in its eighth year recently held its annual general meeting.…
Doors closed in Algonquin Highlands
By Chad Ingram <!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> The Township of Algonquin Highlandswill not be participating in Doors Open 2016. Council made that decision at its Nov.5 meeting.…
Two injured in plane crash
On Tuesday Nov. 3 at approximately 2:55 p.m. members from the Haliburton Highlands Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police were called the scene of a crash involving a single aircraft. Haliburton County Emergency Services and…
County urged to support Blue Dot
By Chad Ingram The following are brief reports of items discussed during an Oct. 28 meeting of Haliburton County council. Members of Environment Haliburton asked county council to sign a petition supporting the Blue Dot…
ETFO and CUPE reach deals with province
By Angelica Ingram Elementary school teachers and education workers represented by CUPE have reached a tentative deal with the province both of which were announced on Monday Nov. 2. The Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario…