By Stephen Petrick You may want to hurry, hurry hard down to the Minden Curling Club this summer to check out its new features. The club, located at 50 Prentice St., has new amenities which…
AH moves to four-day work week
By Sue Tiffin After the upcoming Canada Day long weekend, Algonquin Highlands township staff will begin trialling a compressed work week, making long weekends a weekly option. Algonquin Highlands council supported the eight-month trial, which…
Two deaths reported in health unit’s COVID-19 update
By Sue Tiffin Two Haliburton County residents have died of COVID-19 in the past two weeks. In a June 15 update of COVID-19 activity in the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge district health unit region, a…
School board hopes to build outdoor education centre
By Sue Tiffin The following are brief reports of items discussed at the June 14 meeting of the Trillium Lakelands District School Board, held in-person and broadcast via the board’s website. On June 11, a…
Veteran MPP Scott expected to provide leadership at…
By Stephen Petrick The work of Ontario’s Legislative Assembly is still on pause, after being dissolved in May for the spring provincial election, but Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock’s Member of Provincial Parliament was called to Queen’s Park…
Canada Day in the Highlands
By Vivian Collings Canada Day celebration laughter, music, and fireworks will be heard far and wide across the county on July 1. With festivities taking place all over the county in Minden, West Guilford, and…
HHOA welcomes new fish hatchery manager
The Haliburton Highlands Outdoor Association is pleased to announce that David Poirier has volunteered to manage the association’s fish hatchery. Poirier takes over for Randy Charter, who managed the hatchery operations for the last seven…
Halls Island welcomes artists for fourth year
Nine artists - musicians, writers, mixed media artists – will be welcomed to an off-grid island on Koshlong Lake this summer as the Halls Island Artist Residency opens for a fourth full year of residencies. …
Installation artist John Notten returns with Unpacking the…
By Jerelyn Craden A few years back, 2017, marked Canadian installation artist John Notten’s first exhibition at the Agnes Jamieson Gallery, “The Tent Project.” Now, he’s back with his much-anticipated, “Unpacking the Weekend,” show of…
A ‘dream’ come true for Minden teen
By Vivian Collings Tathan McCutcheon’s biggest dream was to build a basketball court, and it was made possible this spring with a little help from his friends. The Sunshine Foundation of Canada recently granted Tathan…
Co-ed soccer kicks-off in Haliburton County
By Grace Oborne For Chris Carere, the game of soccer is about fun and inclusivity. Two years ago, Carere was a member of the Haliburton Soccer Club. However, due to peak COVID-19 times, it became…
Haliburton County Fair 2022
A Haliburton County Fair event, sponsored by the Minden Agricultural Society, brought hundreds of fairgoers to the Minden fairgrounds on June 11. The event featured live music, games, beef on a bun, agricultural displays and…
Union rallies against TLDSB staff layoffs
By Sue Tiffin Seven educational assistants and three custodial staff employees from schools in Haliburton County have received layoff notices, part of a “very concerning” number of staff cuts that has resulted in more than…
Golf club staff save man’s life
By Sue Tiffin What started out as a typical Friday morning on the green last week resulted in a life saved. At around 8:30 a.m. on June 10, staff at the Blairhampton Golf Club were…
Municipal candidate update
Registration for Ontario’s municipal elections opened on May 2. Anyone wishing to run for council has until 2 p.m. on Friday, August 19 to file nomination papers. Residents considering or wishing to run for council…
Municipal-funded recycling programs to be phased out by…
By Stephen Petrick Municipal taxpayers in Haliburton County may not be paying much – if anything at all – for recycling collection as soon as 2024. A daunting transition to put the onus of blue…
Mystery solved on how to dispose of mystery…
By Stephen Petrick The municipality of Minden Hills is trying to unlock the mystery of how people can safely dispose of mystery snails. The invasive species is prevalent along long waterways and environment groups are…
HCPL auditor applauds merits of library
By Sue Tiffin The following are brief reports of items discussed during a June 8 meeting of the Haliburton County Public Library board. Oscar Poloni, auditor with KPMG, delivered a clean audit to the Haliburton…
Red Hawks show their colours for Pride Week
By Darren Lum There is reason for optimism for the LGBTQIA2S+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and/or Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, Two-Spirit) community after the Haliburton Highlands Secondary School’s (HHSS) Pride Week said organizers. One of…
Former Brady Lake resident wins $100K fellowship
Award honours ‘best and brightest’ at Concordia By Sue Tiffin From a very young age, Cassandra Johannessen was interested in science. Her parents, Shirley and Derek Johannessen of Brady Lake, remember her being interested in…
Last Monarch returns home for induction honour
By Darren Lum Bob Beeney can’t imagine the life he has led without the Highlands. The 90-year-old is the lone survivor of the Minden Monarchs hockey team from the late-1950s. He is proud about his…