By Emily Stonehouse It’s an art form known by many, but the nitty gritty of podcasting is something that many don’t get to glimpse behind the scenes. That’s what Hope Thompson wants to change. Thompson…
Province offers funding for 2025 storm
By Emily Stonehouse Nearly one full year after an ice storm that shut down the province, Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock, Laurie Scott, announced funding opportunities for storm recovery. According to a…
Smoke and mirrors
By Emily Stonehouse We’ve all heard the saying “don’t bite the hand that feeds you”. The colloquial phrase alludes to the fact that we should be grateful for what we are doled out; appreciative for…
The stories of Scotty
By Emily Stonehouse When news hit that Scotty Morrison had passed away at the age of 95 at the end of February, I knew I needed to write a story. As a Haliburton local, Morrison’s…
Connecting the past to the future at JDH
By Emily Stonehouse While some pieces of the past are better left in the rear view mirror, others are important to carry forward, and share with future generations. Alex Labelle started building birch bark canoes…
Two degrees
By Emily Stonehouse One or two degrees. That’s the only difference between a cozy rainy day and a declaration of a significant weather event. While we tweak and adjust our thermostats to meet our needs,…
TLDSB school closures
Submitted Due to the current and ongoing freezing rain, TLDSB has made the decision to close all schools, education centres, and child care centres in schools today, Wednesday, March 11. Note: the Virtual Learning Centre…
Dysart declares significant weather event
Submitted The Municipality of Dysart et al has declared a Significant Weather Event at 2:00pm on March 10, 2026 until further notice due to Freezing Rain. Up to 20mm of Freeing Rain is forecast for the Haliburton area…
A splash of paint for Minden
By Emily Stonehouse Downtown Minden is about to get a fresh facelift, and not just because spring is in the air. The Minden Business Working Group, a steering committee of 20 individuals with ties to…
Landfill security pilot program to launch in Haliburton
By Adam Frisk Concerns about nightly trespassing and illegal scavenging at local landfills led to a heated debate at last week’s council meeting, resulting in a scaled-back plan to test security cameras at a single…
The helpers
By Emily Stonehouse The world feels difficult, that’s no secret. Unless you are one of the very lucky individuals who is able to stay entirely apolitical, whether that be based on privilege or ambivalence, the…
Harcourt Timber Mart fire ‘a huge loss’ to…
By Emily Stonehouse A devastating fire in Harcourt last week has left the community wondering about next steps. Shortly before 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 12, the Highlands East Fire Department received a call for a…
Black History Month in the Haliburton Highlands
By Emily Stonehouse Black History Month is recognized over the month of February, and has been across the country since 1995. In 1978, the Ontario Black History Society (OBHS) was established. Its founders presented a…
Representation
By Emily Stonehouse When I was growing up in the Haliburton Highlands, playing house league hockey on Thursday nights, I used to get changed in a closet. It was tucked around the back of the…
Olympic fever grips Haliburton
By Adam Frisk Haliburton residents are getting into the competitive spirit and are eager to cheer on Team Canada as the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games get underway in Italy. The Olympics officially got…
Fluff
By Emily Stonehouse There’s been no shortage of news. Most of it has been bad. We can’t look the other way. And the algorithms of our allegedly “smart” devices are curated so that we can’t…
Oxtongue Lake Pike Derby a reel-y good time
By Thomas Smith In the far off land of Dwight, our neighbours to the west of Algonquin Highlands, the Winterbottoms are hard at work preparing for the 49th Annual Oxtongue Pike Derby. Originally started by…
Power
By Emily Stonehouse Dysart passed their budget earlier this year by following a standard status quo pattern. Very few feathers were ruffled. If you blinked, you may have even missed it on the agenda altogether.…
Haliburton Gymnastics maps out next steps
By Emily Stonehouse “If you build it, they will come.” That’s the mindset of Kathy Judson as she shared the iconic Field of Dreams quote, in reference to her newest project: a gymnastics gym in…
How Haliburton Village Pharmacy is redefining care
By Adam Frisk When you step into Pharmasave Haliburton Village Pharmacy, the typical "big-box" experience of fluorescent lights, aisles of industrial cleaning products, and a lotto machine shouting "winner, gagnant!" is nowhere to be found…
Dysart council approves ‘palatable’ 4.98% tax hike
By Adam Frisk he Municipality of Dysart et al council approved the 2026 budget, with the final property tax increase set at 4.98 per cent, a notable drop from the 5.83 per cent initially proposed…