Lisa Gervais

1 week ago | thehighlander.ca | Lisa Gervais

The Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks (MECP) said on April 14 it will not proceed with the establishment of a new conservation reserve in Haliburton County’s Milburn Kendrick area. The Haliburton Highlands Land Trust had expressed interest in creating an 8,500-hectare reserve in part of the area in its Highlands Corridor.

1 week ago | thehighlander.ca | Lisa Gervais

Minden Hills mayor Bob Carter said downtown Minden is not out of the woods yet when it comes to the potential for flooding. “We’re going to be on flood watch right through to next weekend. It’s not over at that point, but that’s our critical time,” he said April 14. He said while warming temperatures are maximizing snow melt in the County, “north of here, we still have significant snowpack. Even if it isn’t a lot of snow, it’s very dense.

1 week ago | thehighlander.ca | Lisa Gervais

It’s a sunny spring afternoon as Wayne Krangle feeds firewood into his maple syrup evaporator at his property on Binscarth Road in Haliburton County. Dressed in a camo cap, green shirt, khaki pants, with white suspenders, he walks around his production factory in boots with cleats as it’s still slippery with ice. Three feeder lines carry sap from the many collection barrels on his property, coming from some 250 maple tree taps.

1 week ago | thehighlander.ca | Lisa Gervais

Highlands East prefers “the carrot to the stick” when it comes to its shor=tterm rental bylaw, but junior planner Kim Roberts put operators on notice at a meeting April 8 that they will crack down on people who operate without licences. She told council they had received 41 applications as of their meeting date last Tuesday. Some 22 have been approved, 10 rejected, and nine are pending.

1 week ago | thehighlander.ca | Lisa Gervais

Haliburton County Huskies head coach and general manager Ryan Ramsay said he was “frustrated” by the four-to-one series loss to the Trenton Golden Hawks – that ended the team’s best-ever season in Ontario Junior Hockey League (OJHL) action. Trenton took the Huskies out on their home ice, 4-2, April 13 to end the eastern conference finals. “Frustrated … happy it was a good season, but that was winnable,” Ramsay said.