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Bell to build tower at Fletcher Lake

By Chad Ingram Bell will be erecting a telecommunications tower near Fletcher Lake in Algonquin Highlands. Councillors for the township heard a presentation on behalf of Bell from consultant Haseeb Armizada of CanACRE Ltd. during their March 6 meeting. The ...

Student winners recognized by Legion

The Archie Stouffer Elementary School student winners of the Royal Canadian Legion Essay, Poetry and Poster Remembrance Contest.

Irondale Country Store burns again

For the second time in four years, the Irondale Country Store has been hit by fire.

OPP Briefs

On Friday, Feb. 28 at 10:52 p.m., OPP officers, Haliburton County EMS and Dysart et al Fire Department responded to a snowmobile collision on Boice Bradley Drive, in the Municipality of Dysart et al.

Minor injuries in rollover

A pickup truck heading westbound rolled over just past the Allsaw bridge, between Blairhampton Road and Osprey Road on County Road 21 on Tuesday afternoon, March 4.

MPP welcomes snowplow contract review

News that the auditor general would be reviewing winter road maintenance programs in Ontario has Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock MPP Laurie Scott pleased.

Schmale seeks Conservative candidacy

Jamie Schmale wants his boss’s job.

Deep Bay Road fire deemed suspicious

Police are investigating a February house fire in Minden Hills as suspicious.

Fire destroys historic farmhouse

By Chad Ingram  Flames claimed a historic farmhouse overlooking Maple Lake on the morning of March 4. Algonquin Highlands firefighters received the call for the ...

Minden-area businesses take home hardware

By Jenn Watt Minden area businesses featured prominently in this year’s Chamber of Commerce Business and Community Achievement Awards gala on Saturday, Feb. 22 at ...

The aging face of volunteerism

Minden’s service clubs are pillars of the community, raising money for charitable causes and local infrastructure projects, from playgrounds to bandshells.

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Minden teen ready to challenge the world

With a name like Owen MacKeigan it’s fitting Scotland would be part of a successful journey for his life’s passion.

Carley Duncan leads her team to victory in the tug-of-war, part of a day of winter activities at Archie Stouffer Elementary School on Feb. 28.

Winter fun at ASES

Students at Archie Stouffer Elementary School took part in some fun winter activities Feb. 28. The day had an Olympic theme.

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Living up to Kawartha top billing

Going into the playoffs the Red Hawks were the team to beat.

The Red Hawks Nordic team of McKenzie Hill, left, and Christine Bishop proved they belong with the province's best, coming in sixth and fourth respectively to earn their OFSAA berth. The Hawks will travel to Timmins and will compete at the all-provincials held from Feb. 25 to 26. Darren Lum

Red Hawk skiers make OFSAA

The entire Red Hawks Nordic team is ecstatic about their Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations championship berth.

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Grabbing our property taxes

Not so very long ago, in places just like this, we peasants were allowed to decide how to spend the taxes we reaped from the land on which we lived.

Democratizing deputies

The townships of Algonquin Highlands and Highlands East should change their electoral processes to match those of Minden Hills and Dysart et al, so that deputy-reeves are chosen by general election.

Volunteer void

By Chad Ingram Minden is facing a dearth. In not so many years, the community could be looking at a shortage of volunteers severe enough ...

Mr. Plow

Haliburton County councillors should follow the lead of their counterparts in Huntsville and write a letter to the province asking it to intervene in the winter maintenance of provincial highways in this area.

In this corner

Look up. Way up. There go your property taxes if the new OPP funding formula proposed for 2015 unfolds as planned.

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