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A strategic plan is key to tackling the township’s short and long-term goals, mayor Bob Carter said at Minden Hills’ first regular meeting of council Nov. 24. “Everybody has the items that are most important to themselves and has an idea of the order things should be done,” he told councillors. “To me, that is going to come out in a strategic plan.”
Goalie Aidan Spooner said he was “feeling good” after anchoring the Haliburton County Huskies during the first of a flurry of mid-November OJHL tilts. The Dogs cruised to an 8-0 victory over the St. Michael’s Buzzers in front of a raucous Minden crowd Nov. 12. “It was a full 60 minutes we played out there, couldn’t ask for a better game,” Spooner said. Patrick Saini opened the scoring at five minutes, after a pass from Christian Stevens left the goalie flailing and the net unguarded. “We’re w
Haliburton County council has approved a shoreline preservation bylaw. The decision comes after more than two years of debate, study, consultations and community backlash. The final shoreline preservation bylaw, voted into law at County Council’s Aug. 24 meeting, enforces permitting processes and restricts certain activities within 20 metres of a shoreline. “There has been a lot of work, a lot of pressure, a lot of angst put on all of us,” Warden Liz Danielsen said, after the bylaw passed. The
Minden Hills is set to continue its contract with a Peterborough-based planning company but pay far more for its services. With the town’s director of planning position still vacant, Minden Hills renewed its contract with D.M Wills and Associates Ltd., which has provided planning services since April 2021. The contract has been extended for 12 months. The new agreement, approved by council June 30, includes a total hourly service rate that is 66 per cent higher than an initial contract.
“A bag, or a bag and a half and you’re at $50,” said Joanne Barnes. She’s talking about a trip to the grocery store; a lot of Highlanders are experiencing the same thing these days, with inflation hitting an 18-year high. Barnes knows all too well how rising food prices affect residents. She manages the Minden Community Food Centre. She said this year has further exposed how prevalent food insecurity is in the County. “I said all along in the beginning of October we were going to see people lin
At Haliburton’s Kozy Korner, owner Ann Gordon greets two masked customers at the door, sending them to a freshly-sanitized table six feet from the next diners inside the bustling restaurant. After navigating changing public health rules the past 18 months, the province’s upcoming vaccine protocols, which take effect from Sept. 22, aren’t too much of a concern, she said. “It’s all worth it to keep everybody safe and force people to get vaccines. We were hoping it was coming, we wanted it to come,” she said, adding her staff will be fully vaccinated come October.
Summer weekends at Koshlong Lake are often punctuated by gunfire. Residents said shots ring out near Ripple Rock Drive within shouting distance of Koshlong Lake’s walkers, canoers and swimmers. Even when no one is using the Crown land, hundreds of shotgun shells, metal ammunition casings, clay targets, broken beer bottles and burnt debris remain. Many who live at the Highlands East lake said it’s an issue that’s getting worse; directly affecting their day-to-day lives.
In February, The Orillia Fish and Game Conservation Club served their annual dinner of wild game and fish to a packed room of hungry supporters.
here’s something fleeting about the idea of a dalliance,” says Beauts lyricist Jeff Lawton. Lawton and bandmate Darryl Smith cradle pints at a dimly-lit table at The Local. It is late February, when COVID-19 was but a murmur in the news cycle, and the Halifax indie band's debut LP was about to drop. “I looked it up one time and it’s like a short romantic fling,” adds Smith. “To me, that romantic fling is with a younger version of yourself.” Then, things were different. But now, many might
More than 150 people gathered peacefully near Halifax’s Kempt Road in one of many events across Canada
Five Conservatives vying for the federal leadership made their cases to the party faithful at the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia’s annual general meeting on Saturday.
If you phone Lance Sampson, a.k.a. Aquakultre, his daughter might chime in. “She loves the phone,” Sampson says with a warm laugh after the squeak of a cheerful toddler cuts him off mid-sentence. Sampson is a Halifax-based hip hop artist who’s making a steady rise in the local and national music scenes. But firstly, he’s a father.
The Privateers 1882 are the Halifax Wanderers first and largest supporters’ group. Built upon a shared passion for soccer, the group is already creating community through meetups, marches and lively discussions about the beautiful game.
