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Despite growing odds that the project may never happen, the costs for expansion plans at the Stanhope Airport have just increased radically with a recently negotiated settlement for land expropriated from a local family. The Township of Algonquin Highlands has reached a settlement agreement with the Middleton

Take a visit to the Rails End Gallery soon and you’ll see the journey of art that the current students of the Visual and Creative Arts Diploma at Fleming College are taking. Every piece is distinctly different yet all together they represent a progressive and raw look into the work of artists that are exploring their new found freedom of choosing what art medium they decide to investigate.

An article in the Voice on January 14th 2010 titled “Alzheimer’s Rates Could More than Double in Thirty Years” detailed the debilitating disease and the client care offered for patients and caregivers in Haliburton County. The article elicited a response from Gail Scala, Director of Communications at Central East Community Care Access Centre. Comments were made by Haliburton health care professionals who stated to the Voice “in the last year the Haliburton Access Centre amalgamated with other areas such as Durham and parts of Scarborough.

Just one year and two weeks ago, on February 13th 2009, Bill Adams had just reached the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. Standing at 5,895 metres Kilimanjaro is awe inspiring yet that wasn’t quite enough for this adventurer. On April 11th 2011 Bill will disembark with fellow travelers to tackle Mount Everest, which stands at an incredible 8,848 metres. These journeys all started back in 2008 when Bill had just gone on a three week safari in Tanzania, spending time camping in the Serengeti desert. On returning from the Serengeti the pilot asked Bill if he wanted to fly over Kilimanjaro.

We Hafiz and Shelina Makani, of Shop N’ Save, Kinmount are responding to your one sided article titled “Kinmount Streetscape Delayed” on Thursday, February 11th, 2010. Firstly, to be very clear, we are not against the project as
mentioned in the article. The only thing that we are disputing is that the City of Kawartha Lakes eliminate high- curb and put drivable curbs in front of our store (Shop N’ Save Discount Store and Convenience). Our disabled and seniors can have easy access to the store and not try to climb the curb and it will eliminate a

Kyle Spencer certainly wasn’t expecting to be a midwife last Friday morning, the 12th February. He also wasn’t expecting for his third child to be born in the back of a taxi. But that’s what happened last Friday as his partner, Emily Barry, went into labour on the way to Ross Memorial Hospital in Lindsay. It all started in the early hours of the morning when Emily thought she was having false contractions

The six members of the sovereignty group who unlawfully entered a property on Kennisis Lake Road on November 10th walked free from court on Wednesday 3rd February. The six adults; Victor Beck, Alexandre Nault, Yakim Belair, William Russ, Diann Turkington and Doug Baskin were due in court on February 10th for their trial. February 3rd marked the date of a status hearing where both sides would normally confirm that they were prepared for the upcoming trial. Only three of the six members; Beck, Nault and Belair entered the court room and were without

A sudden fi re destroyed the home of Wagon Wheel Motel Owner Art Nye last Friday, but thankfully there were no injuries. Mr. Nye was not at home when it caught fi re late in the afternoon. Seventeen Minden fi refi ghters responded

A considerable amount of hard work by a lot of people has resulted in greatly
improved exposure for the latest edition of the Events Calendar sponsored by the
Haliburton Highlands Arts Council. The Arts Council has successfully establised partnerships with all of the municipalities across Haliburton County so that, when they open their tax notices, each and every taxpayer will find a copy of the calendar to post on their refrigerator or be kept for reference in a prominent