P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } By Angelica Ingram A special meeting of Dysart councilheld on Nov. 10 brought forth lots of questions comments and a fewfireworks from councillors directed at John Teljeur and WolfgangSiebert regarding…
Festival of one-act plays delights
By Angelica Ingram An unexplained murder in a rural farm town a peculiar secretary with an uncanny strength and a loveless husband and wife stuck on a deserted country road. These were just some of…
Hawks striving for COSSA
By Darren Lum The Red Hawks senior basketball team expects to not only host the Central Ontario Secondary School Athletics championships but be one of four teams to play in it. Its head coach Dave…
Irondale bridge to be replaced
HE council first to sign Blue Dot campaign The following are brief reports of items discussed at the Nov. 9 meeting of Highlands East council. By Angelica Ingram Councillors in Highlands East are the first…
It’s in your drawer to give
By Darren Lum In just about everyone’s junk drawer there is a collection of AA batteries. Each one of those batteries contains enough zinc to potentially save the lives of six children who have a…
Local realtors show they care about Heat Bank
By Angelica Ingram Under the bright sunshine and warm fall air a group of local realtors gathered at Abbey Gardens on Nov. 3 to take a break from selling houses and roll up their sleeves…
OFSAA caps off Hawks' successful season
By Darren Lum Knocking off their arch rivals is still a high point for the Red Hawks girls’ field hockey team’s season despite going winless in three competitive Ontario Federation Sports Athletic Associations (OFSAA) championship…
Princess and Peewee come home
By Darren Lum When Heather Peddie was reunited with her “babies” she was overcome with relief after they went missing for more than a day while she was out of town last week. Upon returning…
Remembrance Days Haliburton circa 1950
By Eddie Burke Remembrance Days in the late ‘40s and early ‘50s in Haliburton were solemn affairs. We were much more subdued and more participatory than we are today. The memories of the wars were recent…
Wilberforce Legion building upgrades celebrated
By Angelica Ingram More than a year ago members of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 624 put pen to paper and began filling out a grant application for the Ontario Trillium Foundation. On Nov. 8…
ETFO reaches deal high school teachers take strike…
By Angelica Ingram Elementary school teachers reached a tentative deal with the province announced on Monday Nov. 2. The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario issued a release advising its members to suspend strike action in…
Gratitude and remembrance on Nov. 11
By Jenn Watt Published Nov. 10 2015 (Update: Billy Pickard died Feb. 5 2018 in her 97th year. Friends are invited to call at the Legion in Haliburton on Saturday Feb. 24 2018 for a…
HHHS van program superb
To the Editor Yesterday I had the pleasure of riding on the maiden voyage of the new vehicle HHHS has just purchased for its van program! It’s perfectly and comfortably equipped to serve the elderly…
HHSS EQAO scores up
By Angelica Ingram Last week the Education Quality and Assessment Office (EQAO) released the annual results from standardized testing done across the province for Grade 9 students in math. The results compare Haliburton County schools…
Objects of memory
By Kate Butler This Remembrance Day we mark the 100th anniversary of the second year of the First World War – a year punctuated by such momentous battles as Loos and Ypres the first use…
Residents go days without power
By Jenn Watt A storm that swept across Ontario on Friday downed hydro lines with 100-kilometre-an-hour winds knocking out power to thousands for days. Across Haliburton County there were more than 60 incidents investigated by…
Woodlot to warm homes and hearts across the…
By Jenn Watt Trees once planted by Donald Sanderson will soon be heating the homes of many across the Highlands – perhaps even his relatives. His son Michael Sanderson who now owns the property near…
Can your home age as gracefully as you?
By Andria Cowan Molyneaux It’s sad but true however diligent we may be we will never be able to stop the steady march of time. We may try to slow its approach by way of…
Minor hockeyMinor hockeyBantam A’s have successful three-game weekendPeewee…
Bantam A’s have successful three-game weekend The Highland Storm bantam A team was very busy and successful this weekend playing three games and earning five points. It began Friday in Haliburton against the South Muskoka…
Chicken adventures
By Lynda Shadbolt I really like to eat eggs. I have them for breakfast lunch or dinner. I enjoy them poached scrambled baked sunny side up and over-easy. I think eggs are the perfect food.…
Concern for new MP
To the Editor Re: Schmale MP for HKLB. Once again Haliburton County has chosen another Conservative MP. Given that we now have a majority Liberal government Mr. Schmale will occupy the back benches of a…