By Chad Ingram Minden Hills council is considering what to do about the proliferation of private docks placed on publicly owned shoreline road allowances within the township, and is looking to involve the public in…
Backyard chickens back for MH council
By Chad Ingram The issue of allowing backyard chickens in Minden Hills is back on the proverbial table for township councillors after a delegation during an April 8 online meeting.During last week’s committee-of-the-whole meeting, councillors…
Beloved Dorset store under new ownership
By Sue Tiffin Mike and Katie Hinbest made a choice to set out to live their most ideal life, and in doing so, will become the owners of the iconic Robinson’s General Store in Dorset…
Be prepared when venturing out in the woods
By Darren Lum Last month two lost hikers needed to be rescued by the OPP in the Queen Elizabeth II Wildlands Provincial Park. It was a reminder of the dangers related to venturing into the…
Man dies in motorcycle collision on Bobcaygeon Road
By Staff A 58-year-old man from Toronto died in a motorcycle collision on Bobcaygeon Road yesterday. On April 7, just after 4 p.m., Haliburton Highlands OPP and emergency crews were called to assist at the…
Flood risk appears extremely low
By Chad Ingram Major flooding in Minden and other areas of Haliburton County seems incredibly unlikely this year, barring substantial rains.A watershed conditions statement for the Bancroft District of the Ministry of Natural Resources and…
25 per cent discount for ‘tower’ entry
By Chad Ingram There will be a 25 per cent discount for entry to the Dorset tower property this summer, with the tower itself remaining closed to the public amid the continuing COVID-19 crisis.During a…
Charging station for North Shore Road
By Chad Ingram Algonquin Highlands councillors have agreed with a recommendation that the first municipally owned electric vehicle charging station in the township will be located in the stretch of township facilities along North Shore…
County vaccination clinics begin this month, new MoH…
By Sue Tiffin The following are brief reports from the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge district health unit press conference held virtually March 31 with acting medical officer of health Dr. Ian Gemmill. A mass vaccination…
Vaccination clinic provides relief to elders: ‘overwhelmed and…
By Sue Tiffin In just eight days, over about 40 hours, a team of people made up of physicians, nurses, paramedics, administrators, roads crew, volunteers and spouses of those team members vaccinated 1,946 people in…
Wildcats will embrace Earth Day through songwriting workshop
By Darren Lum Archie Stouffer Elementary School students are being gifted an opportunity by local environment group Environment Haliburton (EH) to have their environmental consciousness raised with an artistic experience this coming Earth Day on…
Community celebrates research at virtual U-Links gathering
By Sue Tiffin Each March, the annual U-Links Celebration of Research event fills a room with unadulterated excitement from a community joining to share in the research findings of the year.A collective hubbub created by…
Grade 5/6 class required to quarantine after confirmed…
By Sue TiffinLocal Journalism Initiative Reporter Archie Stouffer Elementary School students in a Grade 5/6 class have been identified as close contacts of a person who has tested positive for COVID-19. An April 2 e-mail…
Province-wide, four-week ’emergency brake’ begins Saturday
By Sue TiffinLocal Journalism Initiative Reporter A day after Ontario saw the highest number of people with COVID-19 related critical illness admitted to intensive care units [ICUs] of the pandemic, and a day before the…
Hyland Crest outbreak declared over
By Chad Ingram The COVID-19 outbreak that had been declared at Hyland Crest on March 12 was declared over on March 27.That outbreak was declared after one staff member at the Minden long-term care home…
Sealing of floors not included in arena budget
By Chad Ingram McDonald Brothers Construction – the company that built the new Minden Hills arena and recreation centre – will receive a contract of nearly $14,000 to seal floors in parts of the new…
Looking at locations for charging stations
By Chad Ingram The County of Haliburton and its four, lower-tier townships are considering funding applications and locations for electric vehicle charging stations.County council received a report from climate change co-ordinator Korey McKay during a…
Four-month interval between vaccine doses being reviewed
By Sue Tiffin The following are brief reports of items discussed during a March 25 meeting of the Haliburton Highlands Health Services board. In Ontario, the interval between first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech…
Made-in-Minden product coming for e-bike users
By Darren Lum Minden Hills-based company Tekrider is using its decades of expertise manufacturing protective equipment for dirt bikers and snowmobilers to create a protective vest to keep people using e-bikes safe.Over the last several…
Positive reaction to big-spending budget
By Chad Ingram The provincial budget tabled by the Ford government last week contains $186 billion in spending and years of planned deficits as the province seeks to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Titled Ontario…
‘Nobody’s going to be left behind’ as vaccine…
By Sue Tiffin The following are brief reports from a Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge district health unit press conference held March 17, and a board of health meeting held March 18.One vaccination clinic in each…