By Chad Ingram I'm an insomniac, or at least a part-time one. That's been the case for virtually all of my adult life, the insomnia coming in waves. Typically it lasts a few weeks then…

By Chad Ingram This weekend is Thanksgiving and, like most everything in 2020, it will be different than usual. As the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario drags on towards seven months, the number of confirmed new…

By Chad Ingram During last week’s Throne Speech, the Trudeau government laid out its priorities for a new session of Parliament.Obviously, addressing the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic formed much of that speech, and continued aid, both…

By Chad Ingram On Labour Day weekend I was sitting by the lake at the cottage watching the sunset with my dad, who is a retired school principal. He was talking about how on Labour…

By Chad Ingram   The history of the Stanhope Airport is long and complicated and the question of what to do, or not do, with the property has been an ongoing one for a series…

By Chad Ingram Next week will mark the much-anticipated, stress-inducing, anxiety-ridden return of students, or at least some students, to classrooms in Ontario. I don't think those terms are hyperbolic. For most of the parents…

By Chad Ingram It's been a busy week or so on the federal political stage, with a series of events that bring to question whether federal politicians might send Canadians to the polls in the…

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Back-to-school choices   By Sue Tiffin   Five months into an unprecedented global pandemic, you have likely learned how to give a physically distanced hug – wrapping your arms around your own body, or putting…

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By Chad Ingram   While Haliburton County went several weeks without any new confirmed cases of the coronavirus, in the past week, there have been three new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the county.  …

By Chad Ingram Despite the weather last Wednesday was adark and distressing day in the Haliburton Highlands. There are still some unanswered questionsabout what happened that day but we do know some things. We know…

By Chad Ingram M inden Hills councillors continue to discuss which “value-added items” will be included in the township’s arena project and with the project looking like it will be wrapped up in a month…

By Chad Ingram Canada Day is the biggest day of the year in Minden and so it’s strange that this year a tradition that is so familiar to so many of us willnot unfold. Amid…

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By Chad Ingram Semblances of pre-COVID-19 life arebeginning to appear here and there as the provincial government allows aregional phased re-opening of some businesses throughout Ontario. And while I don't mean to downplay thecontinuing danger…

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By Chad Ingram Haliburton County Warden Liz Danielsenbegan last week's county council meeting by thanking her colleagues for theirefforts in dealing with the many unanticipated unexpected aspects of theCOVID-19 pandemic. “And I just want to…

By Chad Ingram   If you ever met Sinclair Russell, you didn't forget him.    During the weekend, Minden and Haliburton County at large lost one of its most colourful characters, colourful character being an understatement.…

By Chad Ingram During a Minden Hills committee-of-the-whole meeting last weekcouncillors received a report confirming there will likely be no surplus on the township’s arena project. What a shock. Back when theproject was getting underway…