April 22 2014 By Zach Cox In 2007 the Conjurors presented The Last of the Great White Pine wherein the spirits of the pines told their story through spoken word poetry. In 2014 the spirits…
Brass quintet bringing bold beats to Haliburton County
April 15 2014 By Angelica Blenich They have been in the business for more than 30 years and they’ve still got some tunes in them. The five members of the Foothills Brass Quintet will be…
Local uranium film travels to South America
April 15 2014 By Jenn Watt Darlene Buckingham and Shawn Arscott thought they were leaving nuclear power and uranium behind when they moved their lives from Pickering to Tory Hill in 2006. Living in the shadow…
Culture and tourism come together
April 1 2014 Artists and tourism stakeholders gather at the Haliburton School of the Arts on March 26 taking part in a brainstorming meeting facilitated by the Haliburton Highlands Arts Council and the Haliburton County…
Novel explores Alzheimer’s friendship and adventure
April 1 2014 By Jenn Watt If she had known in high school that creative writing could be a career Janet Hepburn would have taken a much different path. But in the end the mother of…
SPARC poised to ignite artful ideas
March 25 2014 By Darren Lum Just like the prospect of warmer days the upcoming four-day SPARC (Symposium for Performing Arts in Rural Communities) is being welcomed as the charge forward into a brighter future. Haliburton…
Exhibition captures calm Zen garden
March 18 2014 This work by Minden resident Olya Chudnovsky represents symbolically the elements of a Japanese Zen garden. The monk stares out from the middle of the painting with elements of the garden around…
Flamenco group to light up Haliburton
March 18 2014 By Angelica Blenich At more than six feet tall Lia Grainger has an athletic build that for many years lent itself to life as an elite basketball player.But now the Vancouver native…