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By Jenn Watt More regulations need to be in place around vaping in order to curb numbers of teenage users a tobacco control officer with the Haliburton Kawartha Pine Ridge District Health Unit says. During…
By Chad Ingram Haliburton County residents filled the ballroom at the Pinestone on the evening of Oct. 9 to hear from the five people who’d like to become MP for Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock in the Oct.…
By Lynda Shadbolt Published Oct. 15 2019 Richard WAGAMESE (1955- 2017) was an Ojibway from the Wabaseemoong First Nation in Northwest Ontario who is recognized as a foremost First Nations author and storyteller. I am…
By Chad Ingram Published Oct. 15 2019 A holding provision on zoning at 1 Sunnyside Street in Haliburton has finally been lifted meaning that construction on a retirement residence on the property can proceed. As…
By Jenn Watt Published Oct. 15 2019 Unlike the leaders’ debates which are so aggressive and partisan that many people avoid them or change the channel in frustration the local candidates’ meeting last week was…
By Darren Lum Published Oct. 19 2019 This year’s Fall Festival at Abbey Gardens scheduled for Saturday Oct. 19 has added an extra day with a fundraising dinner and concert called the Fall Festival Finale.…
By Darren Lum Published Oct. 15 2019 When your sports team is looking to the future for on-court success competitiveness is usually hard to come by. However for the senior Red Hawks boys’ volleyball team…
By Chad Ingram Published Oct. 15 2019 The following are candidate responses to five questions sent via email by the Echo. 1. While the country now has a national housing strategy housing remains unaffordable for…
To the Editor Sandra Dee is a white toy poodle dog that came into our lives at the age of three years old. Our daughter Tracy rescued this beautiful animal and asked my wife and…
To the Editor Re: Letter to the editor “Vote to be heard in Ottawa” Tuesday Oct. 8 I would like to give a reminder that Ontario was once one of the richest provinces until the…
By Darren Lum Looking around the Village of Haliburton you’ll notice purple pumpkins included with fall displays this month. It’s part of the lead up to the provincial Dress Purple Day on Oct. 24 which…
By Sue Tiffin After conducting surveys and face-to-face interviews with municipality staff and councillors over the summer Matthew Savino and Dennis Geelen of Savino Human Resources Partners presented a report titled Highlands East Organization Assessment…
By Jenn Watt Gena Robertson could name any of the dozens of programs launched in Haliburton County as the highlights of three decades of SIRCH Community Services. She could hold up the millions of dollars…
by Darren Lum Published Oct. 8 2019 The Lady Archers of Ontario events continue to sell out in Haliburton with 55 women signing up most recently at the Haliburton Highlands Outdoors Association. “The one thing…
By Jenn Watt Published Oct. 8 2019 Cars and trucks lined Mountain Street and packed the parking lot outside St. George’s Anglican Church on Oct. 5 for the annual barbecue beef dinner which each year…
Published Oct. 8 2019 To the Editor I spent my public school years living and growing up in Wilberforce. When my family moved away my parents kept our small family home and used it as…
Published Oct. 8 2019 To the Editor Our government deficit and debt are becoming important topics as we approach the federal election. For the fiscal year ended March 31 2018 the federal debt was $671…
Published Oct. 8 2019 To the Editor OK so will you vote in the upcoming federal election on Oct. 21? Many of you are too busy with your everyday life to learn about the issues…