By Vanessa Balintec The Haliburton Highlands Land Trust’s turtle road mortality mitigation project is receiving attention from academics around the world, the organization reported at their annual general meeting on June 1 at the Minden…
Year of transition for chamber
By Chad Ingram “This past year has been one of transition for the Haliburton Highlands Chamber of Commerce,” said chamber president Andrea Strano, as she greeted members at the organization’s annual general meeting at Carnarvon’s…
Algonquin Highlands proceeds with climate change plan
By Vanessa Balintec The county’s director of public works Craig Douglas and director of planning and deputy chief administrative officer Charlsey White laid out the steps for a county-wide climate change plan to Algonquin Highlands…
County councillors support waterpower but not charter
By Sue Tiffin At a May 22 meeting of county council Stephanie Landers manager community relations and public outreach from the Ontario Waterpower Champions presented on the history and benefits of using waterpower to generate…
Enhanced shoreline tree preservation bylaw
By Vanessa Balintec The following are brief reports of items discussed at the May 16 meeting of Algonquin Highlands council. Charlsey White deputy chief administrative officer for the County of Haliburton made a delegation to…
Gas tax funds to resurface County Roads 4 17
By Sue Tiffin Craig Douglas director of public works brought plans for bonus funds resulting from the federal government doubling the gas tax allocation to county council last week. Back in March the federal government…
Local health team ‘great partnership’: Plummer
By Vanessa Balintec The following are brief reports of items discussed at the May 23 meeting of the Haliburton Highlands Health Services board. Haliburton Highlands Health Services has sent its self-assessment of readiness to the…
Minden Hills serves a tea fit for the…
By Sue Tiffin The 200th anniversary of the birth of Queen Victoria was celebrated at the Minden Hills Cultural Centre on May 18 with a morning and afternoon tea inside and outside of the Bowron…
Raisin the Root grows to nourish in Minden
By Sue Tiffin A mural covering one wall of a Bobcaygeon Road building is turning heads in Minden and leaving a bright image of locally-grown vegetables in the minds of passersby. Soon enough Nourished by…
Staying safe this summer
By Jenn Watt Summer for many is the best time of the year in the Haliburton Highlands but it’s also a time when things can go very wrong sometimes fatally. On Saturday the Maple Beech…
Haliburton Highlands Ontario Health Team proposed
By Sue Tiffin Health services organizations in Haliburton County are responding to plans to transform the provincial health system through significant changes by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care by proposing a unified…
Not enough student interest to run HHSS music…
By Sue Tiffin Anabelle Craig first began playing the cello when she was four. Nowadays the 15-year-old Grade 10 student plays the bowed string instrument every day. She wears a necklace that reads “my cello…
Green burials ‘beginning of a community-wide project’
By Vanessa Balintec Terry Moore a member of Environment Haliburton appealed to Algonquin Highlands council at their meeting last week to offer all-year green burial options for residents. After the death of his son Kyle…
New book promises guidance on stocked lakes
By Darren Lum A new book by the Haliburton Highlands Outdoors Association is promising a clearer picture of the stocked lakes in Haliburton County. Stocked Lakes Guidebook provides the public with insight about dozens of…
Pharmasave Heart Heroes ride for heart health
By Sue Tiffin Besides organizing Minden’s Big Bike ride supporting the Heart and Stroke Foundation on May 16 Sandra Heywood raised almost $1000 herself toward heart and stroke research bringing this year’s total of the…
Walk to raise awareness of threats to turtles
The Land Between’s Turtle Guardians will be hosting a Turtle Walk in Haliburton for the second year to help raise awareness about risks to local species. “Turtles take 60 years at least to replace themselves”…
County focused on financial sustainability: warden
By Vanessa Balintec On Tuesday, May 7, Haliburton County Warden Liz Danielsen addressed public concerns and questions over what her and the council’s plans will be for the next coming year. “Our primary goal…
EMS calls spiked last summer
By Chad Ingram As a cottaging community, it’s common for Haliburton County to experience a spike in EMS calls during the months of July and August, but that spike was especially large in 2018. …
Koshlong Lake residency attracts artists for first summer
Ten artists will be taking part in the Halls Island residency on Koshlong Lake this summer, coming from Newfoundland, Manitoulin Island, Durham Region, eastern Ontario, Toronto and Haliburton. The residency offers an off-grid…
Landfill planning fees to increase
By Chad Ingram A number of fees in Minden Hills are set to increase, and some new ones introduced, with a public meeting on those fee changes taking place in council chambers on May…
Massage therapist celebrates 25 years in Minden
By Sue Tiffin Jacqueline Ziorjen sits by the window in her massage therapy clinic, looking out onto Bobcaygeon Road in Minden while sun streams through the glass onto her smiling face. This year marks…