In Haliburton County, top concerns of respondents to a community survey about substance use and the harm associated with drug and alcohol use were impaired driving, lack of resources and access to services, children and youth and crime and community safet

Minden Hills residents near the Queen Elizabeth II Wildlands Provincial Park are getting fed up with park visitors causing congestion by parking along roadways, and in at least one case, trespassing on private property.

Committee members heard a presentation from Rebecca Mackenzie, president of the Ontario Culinary Tourism Alliance about the continued and growing importance of food-based tourism in the province.

For the second Kawartha Senior Girls Rugby league game the Hawks ran out on the pitch at the conclusion of regulation in jubilation

Grant and Jan Hutchinson, standing in the driveway of their Minden home, hesitate before they talk about how they met in 1993. They look at each other in that moment of hesitation, and Grant starts quietly laughing.

Members of the City of Kawartha Lakes Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police were on patrol on Sunday, Oct. 14 in the Village of Bobcaygeon. Shortly before 11:30 a.m. an officer observed a black, mid-2000s GMC Sierra extended cab stepside pickup truc

Carnarvon s Zion United Church is scheduled to close following a vote by members of the amalgamated congregation of the church and Minden United Church.

It s October, which means it s that time of year that Bill and Natasha Moshenko start planning, gathering, cutting, sewing, glueing and creating magic in the form of costumes for their family. It s a fun passion project for them, a way to encourage spirit

Minden Hills township will install more vending machines at the S.G. Nesbitt Memorial Arena for the winter after a request for proposals for the operation of the concession stand at the facility failed to garner any interest.

The City of Kawartha Lakes, which is the social services provider for Haliburton County, is making inroads when it comes to housing the community s homeless.

Boshkung Brewing Co. has done it again.

A better life might be out there for the violin or guitar you have stashed away in your closet, even if the abandoned instrument needs some tender loving care.

Work on the reconstruction of the Minden Hills Community Centre and S.G. Nesbitt Memorial Arena is commencing.

Haliburton Highlands Health Services is working to return to a balanced budget following news of a year-to-date deficit of $250,000 as of the end of July 2018, finance committee chairman David Gray said during a board meeting on Thursday, Sept. 27.

Archie Stouffer Elementary School staff and students, wearing stickers noting they were walking for their grandpa, their friend, their aunt or Terry himself, participated in the Terry Fox School Run on Sept. 27.

The Minden Times sent the following questions to candidates for Algonquin Highlands council.

The Minden Times sent the following five questions to the candidates for Minden Hills council.

Some 350 people packed the Minden Hills Community Centre to standing-room-only capacity on the evening of Sept. 27 to hear from hopefuls for the upcoming council term.

During an update of Haliburton County s civic addressing bylaw at a Sept. 26 council meeting, councillors said they d like to include in the resolution encouragement for private road owners to use names that pay tribute to the heritage of the community.

A group of county residents is criticizing the Ford government s decision to end the province s basic income pilot project, calling it a devastating experience for those affected, and a lost opportunity for Ontario to distinguish itself as a leader on the

Algonquin Highlands is entering an agreement with Rogers for the installation of equipment at the Dorset tower that will improve cell service in the township.

Not long after Bernie Nicholson retired two years ago from her job in the employment centre at Fleming College, she set up a 50-by-25-foot studio 10 feet away from her house in the woods, hunkered down and immersed her hands in clay.

The Kushog Lake resident and watercolour artist is part of the Haliburton County Studio Tour, which takes place the weekends of Sept. 29 and 30, and Oct. 6 and 7. It s his second year on the tour.

One hundred years ago, it might have been commonplace to see women, dressed in period clothing, walking down Bobcaygeon Road toward the Village Green to join together, rally and fight for equality. That same scene was re-enacted in downtown Minden on the

A species-at-risk-biologist says he has concerns about potential groundwater contamination stemming from the Irondale landfill and its implications for wildlife, and is requesting that Minden Hills council close and cap the site, transforming it into a t

At the beginning of the year, Terry Fox Run organizer Diane Peacock attended an annual organizers workshop where she had the opportunity to hear the nurse who looked after Terry speak. She s 83 years old and made the trip from Vancouver, said Peacock.

Algonquin Highlands council candidates were asked about the future of the Dorset library branch during an all-candidates meeting on Sept. 13, and all seem in favour of maintaining library services in one way or another.

Early into the annual TD Tree Days planting event in Minden last Saturday, volunteers were dripping with sweat and swatting away pesky bugs along the shoreline of Rotary Park in Minden, but nobody was complaining.

When Teo O Malley was six years old, he went for the first time on a week-long camping program at Camp Medeba, a summer camp and outdoor education centre in West Guilford. It was scary, I was freaked out, said O Malley, now 14 years old.

Basking in the afternoon sunlight, Judy Flieger accepted her lifetime membership from friends and comrades at the Royal Canadian Legion branch 636 Minden on Saturday, Sept. 8.

The Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario is taking legal action against the provincial government, seeking a court injunction against the repeal of the 2015 physical and health education curriculum, as well as the creation of a hotline where parents

A number of infrastructure projects on the county s roster for the year have been completed, a few projects going over the amount initially budgeted for them.

Hydro One has been working to replace a transformer at its substation along County Road 21 after it was destroyed in a fire July 26.

County councillors passed a resolution putting their views on the record regarding the province s decision to cancel the Ontario Basic Income Pilot Project.

A Mississauga family is looking for answers after Anand Baiju, an 18-year-old civil engineering student from the University of Toronto, died on Gull Lake on Tuesday afternoon.

Embarrassed was a term used by some members of Minden Hills council as they heard presentations from residents of Mountain Lake during an Aug. 30 meeting.

The Minden Times sent five questions to candidates running to be mayor or deputy mayor in Minden Hills.

The Trillium Lakelands District School Board is encouraging those who may have an issue with how the school curriculum is being handled to take their concerns through the appropriate channels.

Minden Hills councillors will let members of the next council decide how they want to deal with the end of a tax exemption that has traditionally given elected officials a third of their income tax-free. As part of its 2017 budget, the federal government

After hearing a presentation about the transit partnership between the Town of Innisfil and ride sharing company Uber, Haliburton County council passed a resolution to make contact with Uber and Innisfil for more information.

A cell gap analysis and a mobile broadband internet expansion project being undertaken by the Eastern Ontario Regional Network remain the No. 1 priority of the Eastern Ontario Wardens Caucus. Minden Hills Mayor Brent Devolin, past warden of Haliburton C

The Haliburton Kawartha Pine Ridge District Health Unit is releasing tips on how to deal with bats and bat bites after a woman in the City of Kawartha Lakes was bitten by a bat in her home.

The William Savage matter returned to court at the Peterborough courthouse on Aug. 8.

Designer and decorator Sinclair Russell says it was ultimately his sexuality that led to a career that would eventually take him around the world, crossing paths with celebrities and members of high society along the way.

Algonquin Highlands township will apply to the Ontario Community Infrastructure Fund for money to help with repairs to North Shore Road.

For the past four years, Bethan McCutcheon has planned crafts and science experiments, organized schedules and sleeping arrangements and offered an unforgettable, unique camp experience to more than two dozen people annually from across Canada and the Uni

Minden s Beaver Theatre, located at 12 Water Street, is on the market.

A digital radar sign Haliburton County s roads department set up along CountyRoad 21 in Haliburton Village earlier this summer has shown positive results in urging drivers to slow down.

Local grocers are stocking up on some local produce, with a number of stores in the area now carrying beefsteak tomatoes from Graham s Farm Market in Minden.

Fleming College is proposing the construction of a water-testing facility at the Minden Hills waste water treatment plant site, off of Deep Bay Road.