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…
HHHS to spend $2M on records system
By Chad Ingram Haliburton Highlands Health Services will spend up to $2.1 million on a centralized electronic records system with Ross Memorial Hospital Campbellford Memorial Hospital Northumberland Hills Hospital and Lakeridge Health. HHHS board members…
Minden Hills removes asbestos from buildings
By Chad Ingram The following are brief reports of items discussed during an Oct. 29 meeting of Minden Hills council. Minden Hills will pay about $15000 for removal of asbestos at Pritchard House and the…
War memories from inside Austria
By Darren Lum With tears welling up Johanna Cius a Hyland Crest resident the past five years apologizes for her country during the Second World War. The 89-year-old from Austria has an experience that isn’t…
Collapse of shoring wall closes Newcastle Street
By Chad Ingram As of Monday afternoon a portion ofMinden's Newcastle Street remained closed to traffic and theHaliburton County office closed pending the assessment of thestability of the area's soil. Just after 5 p.m. on…
No-parking zone extended to Fleming Road
By Chad Ingram Minden Hills is extending a no parkingzone along Bobcaygeon Road from Invergordon Avenue to Fleming Road. During the summer council voted toresurface and sign a little-used municipal parking lot at theintersection of…
County forms new water management organization with CEWF
By Chad Ingram Haliburton County is joining forceswith the Coalition for Equitable Water Flow (CEWF) to create a neworganization to give a unified voice to the stakeholders of thefeeder lakes of the Trent-Severn Waterway when…
Cambodian children receive gift of bicycles
By Chad Ingram Mindenites can help make the Christmas season a little merrier for children in Cambodia by buying them bicycles through the Minden Rotary Club. “That becomes a form of family transportation” says club…
Ending bullying with babies
By Darren Lum Surrounded by the watchful eyes of Grade 5 and 6 students who kneel and sit silent three-and-a-half month old Violet Buchanan lies on a green blanket facing up with saliva bubbling out…
From Lincolnshire to Minden: The Coxes This is…
By Chad Ingram The Cox family has been in the Minden area for almost as long as Minden has existed. Jonathan Cox was born on Sept. 25 1852 in Lincolnshire England. On Dec. 30 1874…
Inconsistency in CCAC CEO pay report finds
By Chad Ingram A September report from Ontario’s auditor general found large discrepancies in the pay of the CEOs of the province’s Community Care Access Centres (CCACs) as well as inconsistencies in the models through…
Wetlands and Waterways examines ecological threats
By Chad Ingram “For me it’s just an excuse to be outside” says Sheila Ziman of her art. An environmentalist and founding member of the Haliburton Highlands Land Trust Ziman is also a skilled weaver…
Aircraft maintenance company in talks to locate at…
By Jenn Watt The following are brief reports of items discussed at the Oct. 15 meeting of Algonquin Highlands council. To continue to grow Stanhope Airport needs to begin offering more services to pilots particularly…
Bridge work to be done by late November
By Jenn Watt The following are brief reports of items discussed at county council committee meetings on Wednesday Oct. 14. The first phase of work on Haliburton’s Head Lake Bridge should be complete by late…
Group petitions removal of portage
By Chad Ingram A group of residents is petitioning Parks Canada’s effective closure of a portage at the bottom of Gull Lake near Moore Falls after it removed boat rollers from the route which has…
Marquis thrilled with national results upset by local…
By Angelica Ingram Cheers were erupting throughout the night around Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock Liberal candidate David Marquis however the political hopeful remained cautiously quiet. As federal election results rolled in across the bottom of the television…
Rhubarb up for provincial award
By Chad Ingram One of Haliburton County’s eateries is a finalist in the Ontario Tourism Awards of Excellence which will be handed out at the Ontario Tourism Summit in Toronto in November. Carnarvon’s Rhubarb along…