Emily Stonehouse

By Thomas Smith It has taken a village to defend against last week’s rising floodwaters. On Tuesday, April 14, Minden Hills declared a State of Emergency. Not too surprising for seasoned residents who weathered the most recent floods of 2013 and 2017. With continued rainy weather, the Gull River rose exponentially. All community programming was […]

By Emily Stonehouse There’s a new face leading the charge at Haliburton Highlands Health Services (HHHS), but some may recognize him from around town. Jack Hutchison is a Haliburton County local, who grew up in Minden and graduated Haliburton Highlands Secondary School a number of years ago. After leaving the community to attend post-secondary, Hutchison […]

By Thomas Smith I only had the opportunity to learn from Guy Scott a handful of times throughout my career as a journalist. Yet every time I spoke with him, I learned something new. When I had a question about local history, Guy was the first person I’d contact. At his core, Scott was a […]

By Emily Stonehouse While the County of Haliburton undergoes the process for a governance structure study, CAO Gary Dyke has ventured to each lower tier table to discuss the roll-out of the project. Earlier this year, County councillors agreed to move ahead with the study. Dyke has urged along the way that we at least […]

By Thomas Smith “We are well underway on the clean up,” opened Mayor Carter’s report at last Thursday’s council meeting. Thanking all the volunteers and those involved, he says that we are now in the cleanup stages of Minden’s flooding event of 2026. “Our flood2026 email address is still being monitored,” assured Carter. Deputy Mayor […]

By Emily Stonehouse I’ve always found the term ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (AI) to be a bit of an oxymoron. It’s right up there with ‘jumbo shrimp’ or ‘old news’. The two words clashing and pulling against one another, similar to how AI is cloaking our world; an old versus new mentality. This week in County council, […]

By Emily Stonehouse While we wind down a flooding season for the books, many environmental organizations have opted to start looking into mitigation strategies in an effort to slow down water concerns in the future. The Haliburton Highlands Land Trust (HHLT) recently penned an article outlining some of the efforts landowners can make that may […]

By Emily Stonehouse Many would notice that flags around town have been drawn to half-mast. Dysart’s longtime mayor, Murray Fearrey, passed away on Thursday, May 28. Forever calling the Haliburton Highlands his home, Fearrey was born in the community in 1941. By 1967, he had joined the workforce at the Municipality of Dysart et al […]

By Emily Stonehouse I am going to say something that I doubt will win me many friends: I think we need to slow down on housing. Whoa whoa, keep reading. I promise I will explain this. To begin, I adamantly, wholly believe that housing is a human right. That every individual – regardless of background […]

By Thomas Smith There needs to be action taken to cease the spread of invasive species in Haliburton County. Meagan Shier and Vidhushi Hatwal, students from Trent University have recently completed a project in Algonquin Highlands doing precisely that. Over the course of many months, Shier and Hatwal compiled and consolidated existing records of aquatic […]