By Jenn Watt May 10 2016 Grocery shopping isn’t easy at the best of times. Besides stocking up on enough food you also have to think of which items offer the most nutritional value and…
Getting around
By Jenn Watt May 10 2016 Haliburton’s Head Lake Bridge is in the midst of construction again. By the end of June workers should have the second part of the project complete ensuring our safe…
Haliburton Highlands track team will soar
By Darren Lum May 10 2016 The sun is shining and optimism is high for the Red Hawks track and field team. With its 25 members the team includes athletes from every grade who will…
Haliburton’s Barnum promoted to deputy commissioner
By Darren Lum May 10 2016 Even with the countless miles of travel he does for his police work with the Ontario Provincial Police Haliburton’s Rick Barnum has never forgotten where he comes from. Without…
Hawks sending steeple chaser
By Darren Lum Ryan Manning is one Grade 11 student athlete at Haliburton Highlands Secondary School who will be competing in an event no one else has attempted in close to 27 years. He is…
Highlands East opens information centre
By Angelica Ingram May 10 2016 The following are brief reports of items discussed during a May 9 meeting of Highlands East council. A new information centre has been opened in Highlands East at the…
Local MNRF firefighters to assist in Fort McMurray
By Angelica Ingram May 10 2016 The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry has confirmed that eight of its firefighters based in Haliburton headed out last week to assist with wildfires around Fort McMurray Alta.…
Mamma Mia! here we go again
By Angelica Ingram May 10 2016 It’s difficult to find anyone who is not familiar with the infectious music of ABBA. A pop group who originated from Sweden ABBA has spanned the music landscape for…
OFSAA silver for Red Hawks singles’ player
By Darren Lum May 10 2016 Caleb Schmidt is shining with silver pride after capturing a second in badminton at the all-provincials this past weekend. With a 3-3 record Caleb had a solid performance at…
Plein Air Month to get artists warmed up…
By Jenn Watt May 10 2016 Painting outside or in plein air is a longstanding Canadian tradition and one that shouldn’t come with any snobbery or competition says local artist Gary Blundell. Blundell is the…
Post office changes offer opportunity
To the Editor As a former councillor/deputy reeve for Glamorgan Township and Highlands East I feel compelled to write in response to the letter submitted by Elva Bates in the May 3 edition of the…
Praises to physiotherapy and teleconferencing
To the Editor There have been many thank yous to the nurses and doctors at the hospital from people that have been helped. Just along the hall from the ER there are two more departments…
Red Hawks positioning for title
By Darren Lum May 10 2016 It’s been several years since offence and the Red Hawks girls’ senior soccer team has been spoken within the same breath. Teams from recent memory were solid competitors but…
Thanks to Solid State
To the Editor Kait and Adam Perecko have opened a new business repairing computers and helping folks use the ones they have. Their assets include kindly treatment of their clients abundance of knowledge and the…
Human remains identified as David Palmer
Police say they have found human remains near Haliburton following a search for Bowmanville man David Palmer. On May 10 OPP confirmed the remains were that of Palmer's following a post mortem examination done on…
Cigarette suspected culprit of Haliburton area brush fire
A discarded cigarette is the suspected cause of a grass fire on Friday afternoon on Stoney Creek Road located off of Haliburton Lake Road in Haliburton. The Dysart Fire Department’s eight firefighters and five trucks…
New dock and boathouse regs trouble councillors
By Chad Ingram Published May 3 2016 A court ruling requiring Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry approval for docks and boathouses in the province is causing considerable concern for local politicians. Last year the…
Community hubs
By Angelica Ingram Published May 3 2016 Since becoming a homeowner I have become slightly obsessed with home renovation shows. You know the ones: Property Brothers Love it or List it Good Bones. These shows…
Councillors make change to ATV start on Rail…
By Chad Ingram Published May 3 2016 Haliburton County councillors have made a change to the official spring opening of the Haliburton County Rail Trail to ATVs although in practice there will be little difference.…
Cruiser crash in West Guilford
P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } An OPP cruiser wound up in a ditch inWest Guilford on the evening of Friday April 29. Haliburton Highlands OPP confirmed thatat approximately 6:30 p.m.…
Gauging the impact of cycling
By Chad Ingram Published May 3 2016 Cyclists visiting Haliburton County spend on average $450 during their stay. That’s one of the findings of a cycling economic impact survey for the Haliburton Highlands conducted by…