Published Oct. 10 2017 A 35-year-old man from Lindsay has been charged with several offences related to an attempted robbery on July 11 at the Lucky Dollar in Gooderham. The man has been charged with…
Promoting respect
Published Oct. 10 2017 To the Editor I read with interest your editorial re: your 10 years at the paper. I wanted to take the time to thank you for all you do for our…
Putting the community on steady footing
By Jenn Watt Published Oct.10 2017 It’s Thursday morning and participants in the Falls Prevention class are sitting in a semi-circle around instructor Jane Grieves. They’re chatting amongst themselves as they wait for the last…
Rate of local HPV vaccination on par with…
By Sue Tiffin Published Oct. 10 2017 Consent packages for the HPV shot administered in later grades in elementary schools were sent home in early September and HPV clinics run from October to December in…
Rogers Hometown Hockey Tour is heading to the…
Rogers Hometown Hockey Tour presented by Scotiabank and Dodge is heading to the Haliburton Highlands for a weekend celebration of hockey on Oct. 14 and 15. The weekend will feature broadcast hosts Ron MacLean and…
Senior Red Hawks football squad shows its character…
By Darren Lum Published Oct. 10 2017 Two weeks after losing a game by way of a mercy rule invoked at halftime to open the season the Red Hawks senior football team showed what they…
Special spirit of performance
Published Oct. 10 2017 To the Editor It is a joy and a privilege to be able to sing and I love to do it. It’s also a lot of work to put together on…
Tournament focuses Hawks on fundamentals
By Jenn Watt Published Oct. 10 2017 The Red Hawks boys’ volleyball team got a chance to test out their skills on the court Thursday during an exhibition tournament at the Haliburton Highlands Secondary School…
Baked and Battered taking winter hiatus
By Jenn Watt Published Oct. 9 2017 Five years ago Baked and Battered owners Colby Marcellus and Craig Gordon did an extraordinary thing: they decided to relocate to Haliburton and open a bakery and fish…
Thank you to a community
I grew up in a small town but thought I might like living in “the big city” only to find after university that all I really wanted was to be back in the countryside again.…
A $925K year for HHHSF
Published October 3 2017 Lisa Tompkins executive director of the Haliburton Highlands Health Services Foundation thanks the community for raising $925255 in donations for health services in 2016-2017. “We are so fortunate to have such…
Archery provides for unforgettable experience
By Darren Lum Published Oct. 3 2017 It was a birthday Nancy Walker will never forget. The Highlands resident took her 57th birthday as an opportunity to do something she had never done before shoot…
Bark Lake’s wooden carvings on the chopping block
Wooden carvings on the Bark Lake Leadership and Conference Centre property in Irondale will come down after an onslaught of recent requests from visiting university students who reported them to be offensive. Staff at Bark…
Hawks work toward big goals
By Darren Lum Published October 3 2017 No one is hitting the panic button with the Red Hawks field hockey team after a 1-nil loss to the visiting Crestwood Secondary School Mustangs on Thursday Sept.…
Home Hardware must construct turning lane
By Chad Ingram Published October 3 2017 The owner of the Home Hardware store in Haliburton Village must construct a left-hand turn lane at what will be the new store’s location along County Road 21.…
Steep electricity costs put pressure on HHHS budget
The following are brief reports of items discussed at the Haliburton Highlands Health Services board meeting on Thursday Sept. 28. Haliburton Highlands Health Services was sitting with a small surplus at the end of July…
Unexpected costs for Hometown Hockey
By Chad Ingram Published October 3 2017 The following are brief reports of items discussed during a Sept. 27 meeting of Haliburton County council. There will be some costs for Haliburton County associated with bringing…
Wilberforce school inspired to give
By Jenn Watt Published October 3 2017 For a group of 62 students the sum raised for the Terry Fox Run this year was astounding. Motivated to donate “a toonie for Terry” the student population…
Artist threads connection between landscapes and cityscapes
By Sue Tiffin Published Sept. 26 2017 When Sophie Creelman looks out her studio window she sees trees as far as the eye can see. But her canvas tells a different story. The Haliburton-based contemporary…
Fireworks 2017: a gorgeous show
By George Farrell Published Sept. 26 2017 It’s been such a busy summer for Rails End curator Laurie Jones and her team that it’s somewhat surprising the latest exhibition at the gallery was presented at…
Potter Rickie Woods says goodbye to tour Haliburton…
By Jenn Watt Published Sept. 26 2017 After nearly four decades living in the Highlands and 30 years on the Haliburton County Studio Tour potter Rickie Woods has decided to embrace the next adventure in…