By Chad Ingram Published March 14 2019 The NDP candidate for Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock for the fall’s federal election is reminding voters that they have more than two parties to choose from. The NDP riding association…

The Rural Transportation Options committee is asking Haliburton County residents to undertake a challenge that will make them think about how heavily reliant they are on their vehicles and how difficult it would be to…

By Jenn Watt Published March 14 2019 Many more suspensions and expulsions were handed out to students in the Trillium Lakelands District School Board in the period between September and January of this school year…

The following are brief reports of items discussed during a March 7 meeting of Algonquin Highlands council. The Hawk Lake landfill has about three years to go before it will reach capacity and require closure…

Special to the Times Published March 7 2019

  By Chad Ingram Published March 7, 2019    Given the continuing cost increase of road salt, Haliburton County councillors wondered during a Feb. 27 meeting if there were any viable alternatives.    A report…

  By Chad Ingram Published March 7, 2019    Haliburton County councillors reviewed a report dissecting more than 2.5 million online and social media conversations pertaining to tourism in the Haliburton Highlands during a Feb.…

By Chad Ingram Published March 7, 2019   Minden Hills councillors heard about a couple of options for financing the township’s arena renewal project during a Feb. 28 meeting.    In a 4-3 vote last…

The Haliburton Highlands Chamber of Commerce announced this year’s nominees for the Business and Community Achievement Awards on March 1. They received 127 nominations from across Haliburton County. Winners will be revealed at the annual…

By Chad Ingram Published March 9, 2018    Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock MPP and Ontario Labour Minister Laurie Scott says her government’s overhaul of Ontario’s health-care system is about reducing bureaucracy, eliminating a culture of silo care,…

Published March 7 2019

Barry pushes for plastics reduction    By Chad Ingram Published Feb. 28, 2019    Algonquin Highlands Councillor Lisa Barry would like to see the township use less plastic by gravitating away from plastic water bottles…

Published Feb. 28 2019

By Chad Ingram Published Feb. 28, 2019    The Township of Algonquin Highlands is looking to provide more parking off of Big Hawk Lake Road and Little Hawk Lake Road.    Both roads are dead…

By Chad Ingram Published Feb. 28 2019

By Sue Tiffin Published Feb. 28, 2019    Fire crews put a water shuttle into action on Feb. 20 when they arrived at the scene of a fire at 1211 Gelert Road to find a…

By Sue Tiffin Published Feb. 28, 2019    The Minden Community Food Centre kitchen was bustling last week when Grade 8 students from Archie Stouffer Elementary School joined with Food Centre volunteers to roll up…

By Chad Ingram  Published Feb. 28, 2019    A reconstructed snowmobile bridge in Algonquin Highlands was dedicated in the memory of late Haliburton County Snowmobile Association stalwart Peter Overington in a ribbon-cutting ceremony during the…

When Juanita Miscio found out she was pregnant she couldn’t have imagined what her future was going to look like three years later. A single mom of a three-year-old son Miscio credits her accomplishments and…

The City of Kawartha Lakes will provide funds to support the construction of the second phase of Pinegrove Place the affordable housing complex near the arena in Minden. The City of Kawartha Lakes is the…