CADS program offers many benefits      
Posted 2 days ago
When Tathan McCutcheon glides down the hill his whole face lights up. It’s not unusual for the six-year-old to have a smile on his face, but when he’s got a pair of skis on, Tathan has an extra sparkle in his blue eyes.

Culture shift     
Posted 2 days ago
Something is happening at the Minden Hills Cultural Centre. What it is exactly, we don’t know. What is clear is that some kind of reconfiguration is underway. Two of the centre’s staff members – R.D.

Left to their own devices     
Posted 2 days ago
ISOLATED BY HIS OWN indifference from the hubbub around him, Young Robichaux fixes his gaze on the five young men standing against the wall on the far of the tearoom of the Sapsucker Arms.

Hep C victim holds hope for others     
Updated 3 days ago
Maybe if she were the Grammy-winning singer Natalie Cole life would be completely different. However for a hepatitis C sufferer living in Minden Hills, barely surviving on the meagre income provided by Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP), the reality is far more disturbing.

Going natural at Elvin Johnson Park      
Posted 2 days ago
The Halls and Hawk Lakes Property Owners’ Association wants to conduct a shoreline naturalization project at Halls Lake’s Elvin Johnson Park. Terry Moore, a director with the association, presented Algonquin Highlands councillors with the idea during their Jan.

Skating rink cool as ice     
Posted 2 days ago
The outdoor ice rink behind the Stanhope Firefighers Community Centre is turning out to be one cool attraction. Algonquin Highlands Reeve Carol Moffatt asked public works director Brian Whetstone how the season at the rink was going during a council meeting on Jan.

Township restructures cultural centre    
Posted 2 days ago
The Minden Hills Cultural Centre has two fewer employees. Last week, Sheryl Loucks, co-ordinator of R.D. Lawrence Place, and Caroline McLachlan-Darling, curator of the Minden Hills Museum, were let go by the Township of Minden Hills.

Milk recalled over possible cleaning solution contamination    
Posted 6 hours ago
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is warning people in Ontario and Alymer, Que., not to drink Saputo Inc.'s Neilson Trutaste 2% Partly Skimmed Milk because the product may be contaminated with a cleaning solution.