There’s nothing wrong with following your dreams but don’t forget to create a plan to achieve them a panel of community members told local high school students at the Making Connections Between Students and Local…
Using art for rehabilitation
After teaching visual art for more than 30 years Marta Scythes is now hoping to use the medium to help stroke patients’ physical therapy. A part-time instructor at Fleming College’s Haliburton School of Art and…
Hunting film to premiere in Haliburton June 17
By Jenn Watt Published May 30 2017 The easiest way to introduce Leora Berman’s new project is by saying it’s about hunting – a young woman from L.A. travelling to Ontario to learn how to…
150 vendors in one weekend
By Robert Mackenzie Published May 30 2017 Haliburton’s Home and Cottage Show one of the biggest in the province is returning to the county for the 39th year this June 2 weekend. Rick Ashall says…
Council says no to second boat race
By Chad Ingram Published May 30 2017 Dysart et al council is giving the red light to a second weekend of power boat racing on Head Lake. Members of the Ontario Power Boat Racing Association…
County questions its role in UN designation
Councillors seek clarity on touted achievement By Chad Ingram Published May 30 2017 Earlier this year Haliburton County was designated as an exceptional area for environmental education by the United Nations. The UN chose Peterborough…
Deep Roots plants itself in new Wilberforce home
By Sue Tiffin Published May 30 2017 Corina Mansfield is passionate about being outdoors but it wasn’t always that way. A few years ago she was feeling a bit bored of her work as an…
Entrepreneur teen stocks county storesBy Sue Tiffin
Published May 30 2017 Erik Morrison is a natural born businessman. At 14 the Wilberforce resident runs Erikord Survival a thriving paracord products company that supplies his designs at retailers across the county and through…
Fashion Fallies returning to Haliburton in November
By Robert Mackenzie Published May 30 2017 Fashion Fallies Haliburton County’s whimsical fun outrageous catwalk is returning this fall following a six-year hiatus. This November the Arts Council and Haliburton School of Art and Design…
Haliburton Dance Academy dancers win big
By Sue Tiffin Published May 30 2017 Of all of the awards 35 dancers from the Haliburton Dance Academy (HDA) brought home from three competitions held this spring there are two that Chyna Schell cherishes…
Haliburton Driving Range’s new business owner expands service
By Darren Lum Published May 30 2017 When it comes to golf Haliburton has great opportunity said Andy MacMillan the new owner for the Haliburton Driving Range. Since assuming management in April MacMillan has been…
Hawks senior soccer squad's COSSA run ends in…
By Darren Lum Published May 30 2017 The 2017 run is over for the Red Hawks senior girls’ soccer team. After winning a week before the Hawks were shutout by Nicholson 3-0 in the A…
Health services corp balances budget
By Jenn Watt Published May 30 2017 The following are brief reports of items discussed at the May 25 meeting of the Haliburton Highlands Health Services board. Haliburton Highlands Health Services is in the black…
Highlands marks Therapeutic Touch Week
Published May 30 2017 The Haliburton Highlands branch of The Therapeutic Touch Network of Ontario held two events in the county the first week of May to celebrate the inaugural CARE150 Therapeutic Touch Awareness Week…
Paddlers place fourth in World MastersBy Robert MackenziePublished…
The Haliburton paddlers Carolyn Ellis Lois Deacon Pamela Boyce Chris Whittemore Linda Shulist and Lillian Hall competed as part of Lindsay’s IB Dragon Boating Club at the World Masters Games in Auckland New Zealand this…
Shoppers Drug Mart to move downtown
By Darren Lum Published May 30 2017 Haliburton’s Shoppers Drug Mart plans to move and expand later this year. Aimee Mansfield an associate owner and pharmacist at the location is happy about the plans for…
HHHS balances budget
By Jenn Watt Published May 25 2017 Haliburton Highlands Health Services is in the black this year. Finance committee chairman David Gray gave a report to the board at its May 25 meeting in which…
$15 minimum wage unpopular with Chamber of Commerce
By Robert Mackenzie Published May 23 2017 Haliburton’s Chamber of Commerce has spoken out against a $15 minimum wage and other potential changes to Ontario employment laws reportedly being considered by the provincial Liberal government.…
Big Bike raises cash for lifesaving research
By Jenn Watt Published May 23 2017 Dressed in red T-shirts and ball caps members of the Haliburton Highlands Stroke Support Group are gathered in around a picnic bench in Head Lake Park on a…
Charity barbecue to benefit county’s kids
By Jenn Watt Published May 23 2017 Just more than a week before the fourth annual Food for Kids fundraiser at Sears Adrian and Wendy Vargas their staff and volunteers are gearing up to raise…
Declining bat populations
Life is about to get a lot buggier for most of us in Ontario. Bat populations are in steep decline due to a fast-spreading and incredibly deadly disease called white-nose syndrome which made its way…