By Chad Ingram McDonald Brothers Construction – the company that built the new Minden Hills arena and recreation centre – will receive a contract of nearly $14,000 to seal floors in parts of the new…
Looking at locations for charging stations
By Chad Ingram The County of Haliburton and its four, lower-tier townships are considering funding applications and locations for electric vehicle charging stations.County council received a report from climate change co-ordinator Korey McKay during a…
Four-month interval between vaccine doses being reviewed
By Sue Tiffin The following are brief reports of items discussed during a March 25 meeting of the Haliburton Highlands Health Services board. In Ontario, the interval between first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech…
Made-in-Minden product coming for e-bike users
By Darren Lum Minden Hills-based company Tekrider is using its decades of expertise manufacturing protective equipment for dirt bikers and snowmobilers to create a protective vest to keep people using e-bikes safe.Over the last several…
Positive reaction to big-spending budget
By Chad Ingram The provincial budget tabled by the Ford government last week contains $186 billion in spending and years of planned deficits as the province seeks to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Titled Ontario…
Vaccination clinics underway in county
By Darren Lum Standing outside the Haliburton Highlands Health Services vaccination hub located at the Pinesetone Resort and Conference Centre in Haliburton on Thursday, March 18, Kelly Lawr was readying herself to join the line…
AH passes 2021 budget
By Chad Ingram The following are brief reports of items discussed during a March 18 meeting of Algonquin Highlands council. Councillors passed the township’s 2021 budget, which includes $12.4 million in total spending, $5.7 million…
Climate change demonstrators hit the streets
By Darren Lum Quietly, demonstrators stood on the sidewalks, lined on either side of Bobcaygeon Road in the heart of Minden’s downtown, holding signs with slogans for a healthier world and questions challenging the government…
Vaccination consent forms available throughout Minden
By Chad Ingram COVID-19 screening and consent forms are available to be picked up at locations throughout Minden.The Minden Rotary Club has been distributing the forms throughout town, and they are currently available at TD…
Parent council launches petition to maintain Learn@Home program
By Mike Baker A group of parents throughout the school district region were dismayed to learn last week that the Learn@Home program likely won’t be returning to Trillium Lakelands District School Board [TLDSB] for the…
Rogers successful bidder on EORN project
By Chad Ingram Rogers Communications is the successful bidder on the contract for the Eastern Ontario Regional Network's cell gap project, with some work on the massive project, now valued at more than $300 million,…
Minden Hills council: We’re still investing in roads
By Darren Lum The following are brief reports of items discussed during a March 11 online committee-of-the-whole meeting of Minden Hills council. Bobcaygeon Road being excluded from any improvement work in the 2021 budget prompted…
Second outbreak at Hyland Crest
By Chad Ingram A second COVID-19 outbreak has been declared at Hyland Crest in Minden.Haliburton Highlands Health Services was notified on March 12 that an outbreak was being declared at the long-term care home after…
Students quarantining after confirmed COVID-19 cases at HHSS
By Sue Tiffin Haliburton Highlands Secondary School students in a Grade 11 chemistry class, a Grade 12 English class and a Grade 12 math class have been identified as close contacts of two students who…
MH budget put to public meeting
By Darren Lum After five rounds of budget talks, the 2021 Minden Hills draft budget was put before a public meeting on March 11.The draft budget contains a levy increase of 3.75 per cent over…
Cultural centre reopens with quilt exhibit
By Laurie Carmount Presently exhibiting at the Agnes Jamieson Gallery, in Minden, is Colour with a U Too. This is a touring, national exhibition from the Studio Art Quilt Associates. A nonprofit organization, SAQA’s mission…
County in search of rentals to house new…
By Mike Baker Attracting doctors to Haliburton County is Cheryl Kennedy’s specialty.Since taking on the role of physician recruitment coordinator in May 2019, Kennedy has welcomed four new physicians to the community. Selling people on…
Immunizations of the 80+ population in Haliburton County…
By Sue Tiffin An online system to book vaccination appointments opened by the provincial government on Monday [March 15] but the immunization schedule for Haliburton County does not open until Thursday [March 18], with vaccinations…
TLDSB shuffle sends shockwaves across county
By Mike Baker Lisa Barry was sat at her kitchen table helping her youngest son with his school work last Wednesday morning [March 10] when her email pinged. It was a notice from Trillium Lakelands…
Operatic artists form Racial Equity Advisory Council
By Sue Tiffin, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter As the pandemic progressed, so too did more public discussion of systemic racism alongside a rise in xenophobia, in which Asian people faced verbal and physical attacks and…
The Past Year of a Pandemic: Community reflects…
By Sue Tiffin On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic. In Haliburton County, 51 cases of COVID-19 and one death due to the virus have been…