By Jenn Watt On Monday July 6 offices of the Haliburton Kawartha Pine Ridge District Health Unit reopened to the public following precautionary pandemic-related closures. New measures have been introduced to protect the health of…
Highlands Cinemas misses first summer in 40 years
By Sue Tiffin Highlands Cinemas in Kinmount will remain closed this season citing multiple factors in not being able to open for the 2020 season. “Well it was a long winter now it looks like…
Masks required in Haliburton County businesses next week
By Sue Tiffin Face masks will be mandatory in businesses in Haliburton County as of July 13 according to instructions issued by the local medical officer of health in an end-of-day announcement made July 7…
Minden Hills accepts exact change at landfill plans…
By Sue Tiffin An announcement made July 2 was one that many Minden Hills residents were waiting to hear: waste site operations at Scotch Line landfill and Ingoldsby transfer station would resume the next day.…
New funding to enhance virtual mental health services
By Jenn Watt Funding provided to Haliburton Highlands Health Services through the Emergency Community Support Fund will improve access to mental health services for vulnerable members of the community HHHS CEO Carolyn Plummer said in…
Travel back in time with The Great Historic…
By Darren Lum Connect with history have fun and win prizes with Minden Hills Cultural Centre and Heritage Village’s Great Historic Bake Off. The bake off includes a weekly video baking lesson set in the…
Volunteers donate more than 1200 masks
By Sue Tiffin Busy hands and compassionate community members are helping to bring more than 1200 homemade fabric masks to faces through SIRCH Community Services’ Sewing for a Great Cause initiative. “The sewers in this…
Regular rainfall needed to boost lake and river…
By Jenn Watt Water levels on some of the area’s reservoir lakes may drop as much as 25 centimetres during the Trent Severn Waterway drawdown conducted over a two-week period which started last week. According…
Barkhouse named Indigenous Arts Award laureate
By Jenn Watt For the past 30 years artist Mary Anne Barkhouse has been examining issues crucial to our survival as a species – our stewardship of the land andwater the legacy of colonialism on…
County-based kombucha biz brewing success
By Chad Ingram It was Haliburton County’s lack of kombucha selection that led Lucus Esson to brewing his own, with those concoctions becoming the now-commercially available Luc’s Brew. Komhucha is a fermented tea drink often…
County council meetings to be broadcast in perpetuity
By Chad Ingram Haliburton County council will proceed with the purchase andinstallation of audiovisual equipment for council chambers so that whenin-person meetings resume they will be broadcast publicly on theinternet. During a June 24 meeting…
County passes video surveillance policy
By Chad Ingram Haliburton County councillors approved a video surveillance policy during their June 24 meeting, held via videoconferencing and broadcast on YouTube. “While there are no impending video surveillance projects planned for the county,…
COVID-19 assessment centre operating at capacity
By Jenn Watt Since restrictions on who can be tested for COVID-19 have been lifted, demand has swelled at the assessment centre in Haliburton, which is averaging 25 to 35 people per day, said…
Discussion continues on value-added items
By Chad Ingram Minden Hills councillors have still yet to decide on which “value-added items” will be included in the township’s arena project. As previously reported, value-added items are those not included in the project’s…
Incoming kindergarten students introduced to school from a…
By Sue Tiffin Twenty-one of 33 registered junior kindergarten students got a look at the school they could be going to for the first time this September at the June 22 Welcome to Kindergarten “Drive…
MH awards contract for IGA Road reconstruction
By Chad Ingram The following are brief reports of items discussed during a June 25 meeting of Minden Hills council. Council awarded the contract for the reconstruction of IGA Road to Four Brothers Construction for…
Minden Hills holds photo contest
By Chad Ingram Canada Day will look a lot different inMinden this year with Minden Hills' annual celebration whichnormally packs the downtown with residents and visitors cancelledamid the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak. However the township is…
About picnics and ice cream
About picnics and ice cream By George Pratt Special to the Times True events transcribed from my hand-written journal with minimal editing from my Bat Lake School/Snowdon Township book-in-progress On June 27th, 1948, the Pratt…
Bridge replacements ready to begin
By Jenn Watt Funding from the federal government has come through, allowing work to move forward on the South Wilberforce Bridge in Highlands East and Sedgwick Bridge in Minden Hills. On June 19, local MPP…
Burke's birdhouses benefit food bank
By Sue Tiffin While some turned to Netflix and others turned to baking sourdough bread Tom Burke turned to building birdhouses. Burke who lives in Minden with wife Joann is newly retired this year fromTimber…
Guide rails in AH damaged again
By Chad Ingram For the second time in a year Algonquin Highlands township will replace guide rails at the intersection of St. Peters Road and North ShoreRoad after they were damaged by transport trucks. The…