March 18 2014 By Chad Ingram Haliburton County council cost taxpayers a little more than $100000 to operate for 2013. Members of the county’s finance and correspondence committee received council expenditures for last year during…
Dog show haunted house coming to park
By Angelica Blenich
Friends remember Lee Blair
February 25 2014 · 0 Comments By Jenn Watt Humble honest nature-loving – the traits associated with the late Lee Blair are grounded in the very earth he spent his life moving. Blair died at…
Haliburton Echo wins first in general excellence
April 7 2014 The Haliburton Echo was honoured with a first place finish for general excellence in its circulation category at the Ontario Community Newspaper Association awards gala in Vaughan on April 4. Sister paper…
Leveraging the power of the biggest generation
April 28 2014 By Jenn Watt CityTV founder and Canadian media mogul Moses Znaimer is best known for reimagining television and the audience’s role in creating the media. Now he’s pushing a new revolution of…
Mischief at the laundromat
Haliburton Highlands Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police are investigating mischief at the Parkside Laundromat in Haliburton on February 21 2014 between 5:30 – 10 p.m. Unknown persons entered the washroom in the Laundromat and…
Public weigh in on health care in Canada
By Angelica Blenich Many of those relying on health care in Haliburton County believe there needs to be more focus on front line staff and less on government bureaucracy. That was one of the many…
Public weighs in on Greens Mountain Plan
April 8 2014 · 0 Comments By Angelica Blenich An educational facility a site for astronomy observing nature or horseback riding. These are just some of the many ideas people have for what could be…
Schmale seeks Conservative candidacy
March 10 2014 · 0 Comments By Chad Ingram Jamie Schmale wants his boss’s job. Schmale chief of staff for MP Barry Devolin will toss his hat in the proverbial ring for the Conservative candidacy…
NewsNews
By Darren Lum March 25 2014 Holden Truss Ltd owner Kirk Holden was almost at his Eagle Lake home Thursday afternoon when he received a call alerting him of the fire at his building. He…
Trip changes perspective on life
By Darren Lum February 18 2014
Update: Snowmobile fatality in Harcourt Park
March 23 2014 · Submitted by Haliburton Highlands OPP On Sunday March 23 at 6:50 a.m. Ontario Provincial Police officers from the Haliburton Highlands detachment responded to a snowmobile collision on Allen Lake in Dysart…
Loop Troupe hits the stage for library fundraiser
April 16 2014 By Angelica Blenich A lighthouse a rowboat a cellar a plumber and a daughter. These are just some of the things featured in the fun-filled evening Not Just Desserts. A joint initiative between the…
Supporting the Davis family
May 26 2015 We would like to send a huge thank you to the friends and family ofSteve Marianne Jacob and Moss Davis. As some of you know Stevesuffered a stroke to his spine and is…
2014 LettersWith great dismay
January 20 2015 In December the 4Cs had the privilege of distributing toys and more than 200 Christmas food vouchers to our community. This and our regular monthly distribution of food would not be possible without…
Campaign too negative
May 19 2015 Re: “Tourists asked to go ‘nowhere’ this summer” Haliburton Echo May 5 John and Ed two Haliburton seniors are sitting at a table in HeadLake Park playing cribbage. John asks Ed: Where are…
New slogan hits home
May 19 2015 To the Editor Re: Nowhere tourism campaign The absolute worst marketing campaign I have ever heard of! Notsimply because the targeted town of Haliburton is somewhere I knowsomething about but of any Highland…
Branding campaign takes the cake
May 12 2015 I read with disbelief last week’s article in the Echo aboutOntario’s Highlands Tourism Organization’s summer campaign launch“Welcome to Nowhere.” I’ll tell you where nowhere is…when you live inthe city and feel depressed. That’s…
Family Health Team board adds Loucks to its…
Former Haliburton Highlands Health Services CEO Foster Loucks is thenewest appointment to the Family Health Team board of directorsoccupying the role of community representative. Loucks brings a lifetime of health experience to the table and…
Local theatre and music entertains
May 12, 2015 Applause! Applause! Applause! Over the last few weeks, we have been an audience to a variety of musical treats … all first rate! Hats off … to Bill Gliddon, Curtis Eastmuir and…
Sitting in beautiful somewhere
May 12 2015 Since I read the Echo last evening, I have this song running through my head “He’s a nowhere man sitting in a nowhere land” …..strange because I feel like I am a…