Stevens an ace    
Posted 1 day ago
Peter Oyler and Dale Walker of the Haliburton Highlands Health Services Foundation were excited that Beaverbrook Golf Club owner Dave Stevens made this putt, but even more excited when he donated $1,000 to the foundation last week.

Minden Hills seeks new agreement with snowmobile association    
Posted 1 day ago
It looks like Minden Hills township will be changing its agreement with the Haliburton County Snowmobile Association regarding the conversion of the snowmobile bridge/dock spanning the Gull River in Minden.

When hockey really mattered    
Posted 1 day ago
THE PHOTOGRAPH SNATCHES me out of the here and now into a place and time so foreign and remote it might be a relic from some lost civilization.  Pictures just like it are on restaurant walls and in photo albums all over rural Ontario.

Jean genie    
Posted 1 day ago
KUDOS TO MINDEN Hills Ward 3 Councillor Jean Neville. Thanks to Neville, the township’s three satellite community centres in Gelert, Lochlin and Irondale were part of last week’s conversation about what council should do with a whopping 2011 surplus of nearly $550,000.

The circle of warmth spreads     
Posted 1 day ago
Handsewn blankets from the Highlands are spreading the warmth of love far beyond the county borders With busy hands creating blankets for the Knitting for Warmth outreach project, the boisterous volunteer group sits around a square table, keeping the conversation at a steady rhythm, interspersed

Downtown building shifts gears     
Posted 1 day ago
Jason Sheppard has been putting together bicycles since he was seven. “My uncle was a garbage man,” he says. “He’d always bring home bike parts for me.” Sheppard, 34, recently opened Highlands Cyclery in the Thurston Building on the corner of Bobcaygeon Road and Water Street in downtown Minden.

Discover the home children     
Posted 1 day ago
They came from Britain to Canada by the thousands. Between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, they were brought to this country supposedly to free them from impoverished lives in Europe. Some were ripped away from their families.

Lake takes life of local man   
Posted 1 day ago
A 20-year-old Haliburton County man is dead after an incident on Soyer’s Lake on Monday. Kieran Wulff was working on a dock at a home along Frog Hopper Lane in the Blairhampton Road area in the early afternoon of May 14.

Red Hawks loss forces must-win scenario for playoff berth    
Posted 1 day ago
It’s a shame you can’t award goals for effort. The Red Hawks senior soccer team would be poised for a playoff berth if this were the case, as they would have beaten the visiting Lindsay Collegiate Vocational Institute Spartans instead of dropping a 3-1 loss at home on Monday, May 14.

MH to partner with county on base    
Posted 1 day ago
Minden Hills township will be entering into an agreement with Haliburton County on a joint EMS base/fire hall on the former Walker’s Auto Repair property in Minden.

Peterborough woman beats out regional rivals for Bears’ Lair win   
Posted 1 day ago
The dreams of Peterborough’s Tia Star are coming true. The stars lined up in that direction as the 31-year-old Toronto native and Peterborough resident by way of Lindsay was named the winner of the second Bears’ Lair Entrepreneurial competition at Showplace Peterborough on Saturday night.

Canadian Tire arrives     
Posted 1 day ago
Some shoppers couldn’t help themselves. On Thursday, May 10, a line stretched well into the parking lot of Minden’s Canadian Tire, newly opened on Water Street just off Highway 35.

Make it Minden!   
Posted 1 day ago
To the Editor, The summer programming for free family fun in downtown Minden is underway. The hosts of the weekly evening provide fun for the whole family on Wednesday nights in July and August. The summer program is started with Mary at the River Cone hosting the evening.

Committee raising awareness on narcotics abuse in county    
Posted 1 day ago
Haliburton County’s Opioid Misuse Abuse and Reduction Committee (OMARC), is hosting two awareness events on Wednesday May 30 at the Northern Lights Performing Arts Pavilion in the Haliburton Highlands Secondary School.

Eco summit educates on environment   
Posted 1 day ago
Students from schools throughout Trillium Lakelands District School Board converged on the Kinark Outdoors Centre outside Carnarvon on May 10. Speakers and activities taught students about the importance of conservation and environmental stewardship.

Public access computer service to continue    
Posted 1 day ago
With some reorganization and some digging in its pockets, the county will be able to continue offering free Internet access at the branches of the Haliburton County Public Library.

Tips on avoiding mosquitoes   
Posted 1 day ago
After a bad year in 2011 for West Nile virus activity in Ontario, local health officials are encouraging people to get off to a good start this year by ruining a mosquito’s love life.

Police urge public to call MNR for nuisance bears   
Posted 1 day ago
With the recent changes concerning the Ministry of Natural Resources’ Bear Wise program, the Haliburton Highlands detachment of the OPP has been receiving questions about nuisance bears.

Man pulled from Soyer's Lake   
Posted 2 days ago
A man was pulled from Soyer's Lake around 1 p.m. Monday, but his condition remains unknown. Haliburton OPP issued a release that says only that emergency services arrived to the Poverty Bay area of the lake, which is west of Haliburton just off County Road 21.

Ancaster man charged with impaired driving    
Posted 2 days ago
Police charged a 28-year-old Ancaster man with impaired driving following a traffic stop Friday. Local OPP were patrolling Highway 35 south of Minden at just before midnight May 11 and pulled over the car.

Canadian Tire opens     
Updated 6 days ago
After years of anxiously waiting, shoppers were ready to check out the new Canadian Tire and Mark's Work Wearhouse Thursday, May 10. The store opened on 92 Water St. in Minden just off Highway 35.

Over limit of prohibited size lake trout nets $1,500    
Posted 6 days ago
A Coboconk man has been fined a total of $1,500 for fishing offences. Douglas Boyce pleaded guilty and was fined $750 for possessing two lake trout over his legal limit and $750 for possessing two lake trout within the prohibited size.

Minden Hills sees huge surplus     
Posted 6 days ago
Minden Hills township garnered a large surplus for 2011. Councillors discussed what they would do with the surplus of nearly $550,000 during their May 10 committee-of-the-whole meeting. The bulk of the surplus – some $350,000 – resulted from savings on wages and benefits.