Mike Baker

A new drinking water source protection plan for the Halls and Hawk lakes system has been completed and Algonquin Highlands deputy mayor, Jennifer Dailloux, believes the project could be scalable County-wide. It’s a first-of-its-kind program in the Highlands, said Shelley Fellows, president of the Halls and Hawk Lakes Property Owners Association (HHLPOA). Commissioned with money […]

Three years on from the launch of its award-winning ‘Stepping into Nature’ self-guided walking tour of the Minden riverwalk, the Haliburton County Master Gardeners (HCMG) is preparing to unveil a similar feature for the Minden boardwalk. Featuring 10 stops unpacking vital information about the marsh and swamp located in Minden’s downtown, the boardwalk tour will […]

The show is organized by volunteers from the Haliburton Curling Club, which uses the proceeds to finance things like its ‘learn to curl’ and youth training programs. “We focus on development as much as possible. We invest heavily in our youth curling program. Kids are bused in every week for sessions,” home show spokesperson Andy […]

Haliburton Forest Biochar management is still assessing damages after an early morning fire at its Kennaway Road facility May 22 took out one of the business’ production buildings. Malcolm Cockwell, managing director of Haliburton Forest and Wild Life Reserve – the parent company of Biochar, told The Highlander the blaze broke out around 1:30 a.m. […]

No community was better prepared for active shooters than Arvada, Colo. Then four men with guns converged in the city center, each on different missions.

Since discovering overseas travel in her 50s, Haliburton’s Darla Searle has fully embraced the idea that the world is heroyster. After organizing trips for highschoolers to popular European destinations like France, Germany and Italy and more exotic locales like Costa Rica, Searle has planned a seven-day excursion to Iceland in July 2028 – and she […]

It was music to Mike Knight’s ears this past weekend when, during an open house for his new venture Apple Tree Recording Studio, one of the visitors asked to test out his custom-made vocal booth. While he readily admitted the quaint studio, located at 2061 County Road 21, is a far cry from the famous […]

Sandy MacDonald has always believed it takes a village to raise a child and, for the past four years, she’s put that into practice at Wilberforce Elementary School. Secretary at the rural school, MacDonald was recognized with a Trillium Lakelands District School Board (TLDSB) director’s award in April for her role bringing several beneficial programs […]

While Dominion Hotel owner Shawn Chamberlin expects his front-of-house to be a little quieter on Saturday afternoons this winter, he’s grateful for what the Haliburton County Huskies did for businesses in Minden these past five years. Franchise owners Paul Wilson and Ryan Ramsay announced in May that the team would be relocating to Cobourg ahead […]

Two columns that held up the building’s pool deck began to fail several weeks before the 2021 collapse, according to a new federal report.