By Steve Petrick It’s not over yet – the battle to improve long-term care in Ontario, that is. About 20 community members came out to the Lloyd Watson Memorial Community Centre in Wilberforce on Wednesday,…
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Alleway and Gervais lead the way at ASES
By Sue Tiffin School’s out for summer, and when Archie Stouffer Elementary School students return, they’ll see familiar faces in new positions. Current vice-principal Mike Gervais has been appointed ASES principal and current Trillium Lakelands…
Point in Time gives local children a sense…
By Vivian Collings The Point in Time annual general meeting on June 21 was a night full of thanks for the staff, board members, and community members that have allowed the organization to help local…
Students learn importance of Indigenous beadwork
By Grace Oborne It all started with one little bead for students at Haliburton Highlands Secondary School. Eventually they were making felt pins for Water First donations. Earlier this month, Larry O’Connor was asked by…
The Highlands are alive with The Sound of…
By Grace Oborne Music, dance, and theatre performance are about to become a few of the county’s favourite things. The Highlands Summer Festival returns to the stage in July and August, starting with the opening…
Eat, play, and stay at the Rockcliffe Moore…
By Vivian Collings The Rockcliffe bar, restaurant, and hotel is making a momentous comeback on July 1, but not in downtown Minden. Owners of the Rockcliffe recently purchased what was formerly the Summerkiss Restaurant in…
Carnarvon family pursues new business venture
By Vivian Collings Lola’s Meal Stop and Snack Shop is a long-awaited dream come true for Lori Glenn and her family. The food truck opened on May 6 in Carnarvon at the previous Carnarvon Bowl…
Summer resident and environmentalist wins LKO Conservation award
By Grace Oborne Preserving the health of our Earth is something that we should all work toward. During a virtual, annual general meeting of the Lake Kashagawigamog Organization that took place on June 15, Blake…
Grant money helps Minden Curling Club add new…
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…