By Jenn Watt Published March 12 2019 Ward 4 Councillor John Smith’s first community town hall meeting ended up garnering plenty of attention on Thursday evening as dozens of people arrived at the West Guilford…
Suspensions rising across school board
By Jenn Watt Published March 12 2019 Many more suspensions and expulsions were handed out to students in the Trillium Lakelands District School Board in the period between September and January of this school year…
Snowmobile Collides with Motor Vehicle
Published March 7 2019 (Minden Hills ON) –Haliburton Highlands Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police is investigating a collision that occurred shortly before 2pm today. The collision occurred when a snowmobile travelling north bound on…
A Glorious! production promises hilarious performances
By Sue Tiffin Published March 5 2019 At the end of March Haliburton audiences will have the chance to see why actors performing in Glorious! The True Story of Florence Foster Jenkins the Worst Singer…
Allowing snowmobiles on Highland Street
By Chad Ingram Published March 5 2019 Dysart et al councillors will look at allowing snowmobilers to drive down Highland Street. The issues of snowmobilers driving on sidewalks in Haliburton Village came up during a…
An interview with Rod Prouse
By George Farrell Published Feb. 28 2019 Peripheral a 2017 exhibition at the Quest Gallery in Midland Ont. featured new works by Rod Prouse that took him out of the realm of traditional landscape artist…
Blue Haliburton?
By Jenn Watt Published March 5 2019 Awareness of the importance of eliminating single-use plastics has been building in Haliburton. Between conversations at council tables strategizing among environmental groups and changes made at local businesses…
County curlers showcase skills in Peterborough
Submitted by Jane Boyd Published March 5 2019 On Saturday Feb. 23 at the Peterborough Cashpiel at the Peterborough Curling Club Haliburton County teams dominated during their two eight-end games both in numbers and results.…
Dealing with for-profit events at Head Lake Park
By Chad Ingram Published March 5 2019 Dysart et al council will be looking at the township’s fee structure with an eye to what the organizers of for-profit events at Head Lake Park should be…
Fireworks rules up for review
By Chad Ingram Published March 5 2019 Dysart et al council is looking to crack down on the use of fireworks in the municipality with one member musing about an all-out ban on the items.…
Hawks eliminate Spartans advancing to COSSA
By Darren Lum Published March 5 2019 There wasn’t much competition for the Red Hawks in their Kawartha quarter-final playoffs against the LCVI Spartans a little over a week ago. The senior boys’ hockey team…
HHHS addresses questions about Highland Wood roof leak
By Sue Tiffin Published March 5 2019 A Feb. 20 meeting for family members of Highland Wood residents who were relocated from the long-term care home in Haliburton in early February due to a leaky…
Junior boys Red Hawks basketball team season in…
Submitted by Paul Longo Published March 5 2019 The junior boys’ Red Hawk basketball team closed out the 2018-2019 season at the COSSA A Championships on Feb. 25 in Belleville. Representing Kawartha West as the…
Gallery offers opportunities
Published March 5 2019 To the Editor I’m writing in regard to the Dysart Feb. 14 council budget meeting in particular to address comments by Councillor John Smith as he questions the value of funding…
Minor hockey
The following are hockey dispatches from around the area. On Saturday Feb. 23 the Bancroft IDA/Park View Dental Midget Girls Jets team travelled to Lakefield to play the Ennismore Eagles. The Eagles took the lead…
Nominees announced for Chamber of Commerce awards
Published March 5 2019 The Haliburton Highlands Chamber of Commerce announced this year’s nominees for the Business and Community Achievement Awards on March 1. They received 127 nominations from across Haliburton County. Winners will be…
Red Hawks wrestlers are OFSAA bound
Submitted by Paul Klose Published March 5 2019 On Friday Feb. 22 the Haliburton Highlands Secondary School wrestling team competed at the 2019 COSSA Wrestling Championships in Belleville. More than 160 athletes representing 15 schools…
Reporting what’s real in the era of fake…
By Jenn Watt Published March 5 2019 Robert Fisher has been embracing the rural life since retiring from his decades-long career in television and radio journalism getting used to power outages learning to use a…
The Bullet Journal
By Lynda Shadbolt Published March 5 2019 When my daughter was born I began keeping a family journal that was about our everyday life. Art or pieces of art were glued in. Short stories of…
Virtual reality brings Haliburton sled dogs to hospitals
By Sue Tiffin Published March 5 2019 Terminally ill and long-term patients at SickKids can now travel to Haliburton and race down a wintry trail while being pulled by a Winterdance dogsled team without even…
Huskies removed from Highlands East property
By Jenn Watt Published Feb. 27 2019 Twenty huskies are in foster locations following a visit by police to a Highlands East property. Haliburton Highlands OPP had been on the property on Friday Feb. 22…