By Chad Ingram I lost a friend to suicide last year. I didn’t find out until months after it happened. My friend was also a co-worker of mine when I lived and worked in the…
The other foot
By Chad Ingram Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock MP Jamie Schmale and members of his Conservative caucus are promoting a petition from one of their colleagues. That petition sponsored by Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston MP Scott Reid addresses the Liberal government’s…
Better late than never
By Jim Poling St. Nora Lake has frozen over finally. The ice was five inches thick at the start of this week. Great news for the snowmobile crowd and winter anglers. That’s the latest freeze-up…
Let it snow (please)
By Chad Ingram As I write this it's minus 11 degrees outside but it wasn't so a couple of days ago. A couple of days ago it was plus eight. This winter if you can…
Bold beautiful and foxy
By Jim Poling I saw him from the corner of my eye. He was standing statue still no more than 15 feet away staring into a pile of snow-covered rocks. He lunged forward nose into…
Letters to the EditorLetters to the Editor
To the Editor Does it make sense that the newly appointed warden of Haliburton has stated that her focus is going to be on tourism yet when it comes to participating in an Ontario program…
2016: The year of living differently?
By Jim Poling That was nice. The last two months of the year filled with optimism generated mostly by a new federal government. Lots of cooing and gushing about positive change. And a cheery -…
What’s the point?
To the editor: (re: Bridge requires major work - Minden Times Dec. 23 2015) It comes as no surprise to us that people aren’t reporting incidents of misuse of the rail trail. It doesn’t mean…
Reformatting the fair
By Chad Ingram 2016 will be a year of changes for the Haliburton County Fair as organizers alter its format. The fair will be held earlier than usual this year on a single day in…
OpinionOpinion
By Jim Poling This is my favourite Christmas memory which I have written about many times in many places. Repeating it has become a Christmas tradition. *** Fresh-fallen snow protested beneath the crush of my…
The top 10
By Chad Ingram As has become an end-of-year tradition around here these are the top 10 news stories of 2015 for the western half of Haliburton County. With an intake window for the province's feed-in-tariff …
A cappeletti Christmas
By Jim Poling I t is warm and spring like outside but when I open the side door and step into the kitchen suddenly it is Christmas. Flour dust covers the table one end of…
A fine balance
T hey say the only constants in life are change and beer. Well they say something like that. The Beer Store recently announced it will be moving its Minden location from Water Street where it’s…
Sunny ways and cheap shots
By Jim Poling Sr. T he politicians are back on Parliament Hill apparently having learned little from October’s general election. It seems to me that we voters told them clearly that we want an end…
Event of default
By Chad Ingram The province has the ability to terminate its contract with Carillion. This is not earth-shattering but is something I can write with stone-cold certainty now that I have a copy of the…
Salvage yard not a good idea
To The Editor On Thursday Nov. 26 residents from Hunter Creek Estates and Gull Lake attended the Minden Hills council meeting. The extremely large group came to protest the proposal to create a salvage yard…
Did you ride the magic bus with Ed?
To the Editor Fortunately we may be lucky enough to have somebody special come into our lives. If you rode the big yellow bus with Ed Pritchard you had the company of such a person…
Keep a part of Minden’s past
To the Editor This is in response to Tim Pritchard’s letter in the Nov. 26 edition of the Times . I totally agree with Tim’s statements as I wrote about when this issue came up…
Scrap
W ho says municipal politics can’t be interesting? Minden Hills councillors were greeted by a protest as they made their way into the township building for last week’s meeting. Yes a protest with placards and…
Whispers of winter
By Jim Poling Gentle mists caress the lake like a mother’s hand massaging her child’s back calming her to sleep. Sleep for the lake is delayed this year. Winter’s approach usually loud and bullying is…
The bigger story behind Sherborne Road
By Jim Poling Sr. I t is remarkable how tiny pieces of news help us to see much larger worrisome trends. For instance we now learn that the Natural Resources Ministry has been poking about…