Canoe FM programmer wins station’s first award    By Vanessa Balintec On-air host of Tuesday Night Sessions David Mair received the Best Indie and Rock Music Award for his program from the National Campus and…

  By Chad Ingram Minden’s Festival of the August Moon is cancelled for this summer, but organizers are hoping to renew the popular event next year.  The bottom line is it requires more volunteers, and…

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By Belinda Gallagher Special to the Times The sun was bright and the mosquito count was down when we arrived at the latest Haliburton Highlands Land Trust Discovery Days event, Magnificent Moths. As we walked…

By Jim Poling Sr.    When I walk the woods these days I realize that I am seeing only a fraction what is here.   The trees, the low-growing bushes and the animals all are…

By Darren Lum Elliot who has lived and worked in the Haliburton/Kawartha Lakes region since 1985 has been conducting water quality monitoring research with Fleming students on the lake annually since 2015. This monitoring has…

Work on the the S.G. Nesbitt Memorial Arena renewal project up until the end of May went 9.4 per cent over the amount that was budgeted for it but Minden Hills Mayor Brent Devolin and…

By Sue Tiffin “Thank you for joining us today and I’m very excited to say for the first time to welcome you all to the Welch Family Room” said Emily Stonehouse Economic Development Destination and…

By Jerelyn Craden The marquee of the landmark Highlands Cinemas in Kinmount stands tall and proud on a hillside leading up to the unique some say “magical” five-screen cineplex and museum in the woods built…

A water-testing research facility that Fleming College is building at the Minden Hills wastewater treatment plant off Deep Bay Road is getting closer to operation. Minden Hills councillors were visited by Brent Wootten the college’s…

By Sue Tiffin Outside The Carving Gallery on Hwy 35 in Moore Falls, Jaden Vanderwindt pulls a bright blue hoodie over his cap, covers his hands with protective gloves and lifts a mask to shield…

By Vanessa Balintec Out from his father’s practice and into his own, Steve Kerr has ventured not too far down the road from Dentistry in the Highlands and has opened up a denture clinic under…

By Jenn Watt Several years ago Minden Hills resident Paul Prentice started noticing that there were aquatic snails in the lake bigger than the ones you’d usually find and they seemed to be proliferating. Together…

By Sue Tiffin Displays set up in the hallways of Hyland Crest on the way to the auditorium where the 23rd Haliburton Highlands Health Services annual general meeting was held on June 20 showed the…

ASES students graduate with ‘bright futures’    By Sue Tiffin Thirty-four Grade 8 students nervously, shyly, and also with pride and excitement, walked a red carpet at a Hollywood-themed graduation ceremony held June 24 at…

Broadband tops Scott’s list as she takes new role    By Sue Tiffin   Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock MPP Laurie Scott has been named the Minister of Infrastructure, switching portfolios with Monte McNaughton who takes over the…

By Vanessa Balintec Before deciding to bike his way to Courtright Ont. this past spring the last time Bruce Fisher rode his bike was eight years ago. “I’m 79 years old too old to be…

By Chad Ingram Haliburton County councillors will considerhaving a governance review of the county and its four lower-tier municipalitiesconducted by a third party. Councillors had a lengthy discussion on theissue during an June 26 meeting…

By Chad Ingram If you’re a gardener, perhaps consider dedicating a row in your garden for planting produce to go to the county’s food banks this summer.  The local incarnation of the national program Grow…

By Chad Ingram The Liberal riding association for Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock has chosen its candidate for the fall federal election.  Judi Forbes was set to be acclaimed during a nomination meeting in Lindsay on the evening…