By Chad Ingram Minden Hills councillors discussed the township’s 2020 budget again during a Jan. 30 meeting and the municipality will take out a loan for the completion of some roads projects. The township will…
Thirteen residents of Haliburton County charged in drug…
Sixteen people 13 of them residents of Haliburton County are facing numerous charges after a nine-month investigation targeting individuals responsible for trafficking cocaine into the Haliburton area from the Greater Toronto Area. On January 30…
Beauty Basics brings one-stop shop together
Beauty Basics brings one-stop shop together Bu Sue Tiffin When Amy Joanu speaks about her vision, her business and the upcoming grand opening of her one-stop beauty shop, her energy is palpable. Joanu…
AH proceeds with fire hall renovation
By Chad Ingram The Township of Algonquin Highlands will proceed with the renovation of its fire station at Oxtongue Lake known as Station 70 at the township’s north end. Councillors for the township approved awarding…
County council cost about $135K for 2019
By Chad Ingram Haliburton County council cost approximately $133500 to operate for 2019. The 2019 statements of remuneration and expenses for county council were received by councillors during a Jan. 22 meeting. County councillors receive…
County hesitant on health unit request
By Chad Ingram Haliburton County along with the City of Kawartha Lakes is not in a hurry to pay additional money that is being requested of it by the Haliburton Kawartha Pine Ridge District Health…
County tax increase 1.67 per cent
By Chad Ingram Haliburton County residents can expect a 1.67 per cent increase on the upper tier portion of their tax bills for 2020. County councillors passed the budget during a Jan. 22 meeting. While…
Roberts deputy warden for 2020
By Chad Ingram The following are brief reports of items discussed during a Jan. 22 meeting of Haliburton County council. Dysart et al Mayor Andrea Roberts was chosen by her colleagues as deputy warden of…
Speed alcohol top factors in snowmobile fatalities
By Jenn Watt Nearly half of snowmobile fatalities in Ontario in the last 10 years occurred on frozen lakes or rivers; 45 per cent involved alcohol or drugs; and 34 per cent were in Central…
Teacher strikes to resume next week
By Chad Ingram Rotating one-day strikes by members of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario will continue next week if the union and the Ford government are not able to reach a contract resolution before…
Community mourns man who died at work
By Sue Tiffin When Wade Hartin died unexpectedly at work as a snow-grooming machine operator at Dagmar Ski Resort near Uxbridge last week friends family and the wider community reached out to share stories of…
Don’t toss it! Bring it to SIRCH’s first…
Submitted by SIRCH Community Services What do you do with a broken toaster? Or with a wobbly chair? Or with a sweater full of moth holes? Toss it away? No way! Instead bring it to…
St. Stephen’s proposed as green burial site
By Chad Ingram The Haliburton Highlands Green Burial Society is proposing that an undeveloped section at the north end of the cemetery at St. Stephen’s Church along Buckslide Road in Algonquin Highlands become Haliburton County’s…
Words come easily for Minden’s prolific poet
By Sue Tiffin The first thing Beth McWatters does after sitting back down in the armchair next to the window in her living room from which she gathers inspiration as life outside happens is show…
Education director to retire this summer
By Chad Ingram School will be out this summer in a big way for Larry Hope. Hope who’s been director of the Trillium Lakelands District School Board for the past decade announced last week that…
Kudos for Cavanagh from council
By Chad Ingram Algonquin Highlands councillors had kind words for departing fire chief Mike Cavanagh as he gave a final report to council during a Jan. 16 meeting. Cavanagh is resigning from the township taking…
Museum expansion price tag higher than expected
An expansion of the Dorset Heritage Museum will cost significantly more than anticipated and Algonquin Highlands councillors are in the process of deciding how the township might go about making up that shortfall. During a…
Province announces annual equalization infrastructure funding
Earlier this week the provincial government announced annual funding allocations for municipalities under both its Ontario Municipal Partnership Fund and Ontario Community Infrastructure Fund programs. Under the OMPF which is the province’s main grant funding…
Strike action closes county's schools
By Jenn Watt Rotating one-day strikes involved teachers at the county’s high school alternate education centre and five elementary schools on Tuesday as the unions intensify job action over stalled negotiations with the province. “We…
First Haliburton County homebirth of 2020 ‘like a…
When Annalee Hunter went to bed at around 7:30 p.m. on the night of Jan. 5she had no idea that when she woke up in the morning she’d be able tohave breakfast and meet her…
Climate change co-ordinator plans to lead the way
By Sue Tiffin Korey McKay is in the unique position of working in a job that didn’t exist two years ago when she enrolled in a master’s program that would eventually enable her to work…