By Darren Lum Currently, the museum is closed due to the provincial stay-at-home order. However when the province lifts the stay-at-home order the museum will once again welcome visitors. Take a journey back in time…
Radio Playhouse brings the theatre to you
By Sue Tiffin The show must go on and it will do so over the airwaves into your living room, over your car speakers or straight into your ears via headphones beginning April 7.Canoe FM…
Despite lockdown, some April Break activities available
By Sue Tiffin Given changing restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, please contact organizers before planning to participate in any in-person events to ensure they are running as planned. Spring Activity KitsThe Municipality of Dysart et…
Jaycock plans to keep community connections
By Chad Ingram One of Canoe FM’s iconic figures is moving away from Haliburton County, but listeners of the community volunteer radio station are still likely to hear Mike Jaycock’s signature baritone on the air…
Operatic artists form Racial Equity Advisory Council
By Sue Tiffin, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter As the pandemic progressed, so too did more public discussion of systemic racism alongside a rise in xenophobia, in which Asian people faced verbal and physical attacks and…
Community biking challenge pencilled in for September
By Mike Baker, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Haliburton’s Friends of the Rail Trail [FoRT] are hoping to kick-start a brand new annual event.Pamela Marsales, a FoRT member, says the organization want to organize a family-friendly…
New Nick Russell album to be released next…
By Chad Ingram Virtuosic Haliburton Highlands guitarist Nick Russell is dropping a new album March 1.Entitled ARCHTOP, the album takes its name from the 1949 Gibson L-7 guitar Russell used throughout its recording. Archtop guitars…
Canadian rites of passage for rink makers
By Darren Lum There are few images more iconic than skating on a lake, surrounded by a blanket of snow, set against a stand of trees that stretches off to the horizon, or on a…
Highlands Summer Festival cancels 2021 season
By Mike Baker Another one bites the dust.After being forced to cancel its 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, organizers of the Highlands Summer Festival [HSF] have made the “difficult decision” to shutter the…
Dysart provides dollars, inkind support to Haliburton Sculpture…
By Mike Baker When Barb Bolin joined the volunteer committee of the Haliburton Sculpture Forest more than two decades ago, she would never have imagined the site would eventually become one of Ontario’s top tourist…
Haliburton Youth Wellness Hub offering connection, support
By Sue Tiffin Isolation, disconnection from friends, nowhere to go and nothing to do.People of all ages are dealing with the stresses of a stay-at-home-order during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, but it’s…
Winsley celebrates history of printmaking
By Sue Tiffin Meggan Winsley has certainly made her mark on Toronto.The Haliburton-raised artist is drawing attention downtown in the city, her work being featured at the intersection of Queen Street West and Portland Street.Winsley…
Upcoming Connections show reflection of our world
By Darren Lum This story is a follow-up to an article called, Daily account of the pandemic in self-portraits, which was published in the Echo on May 5.It’s been almost a year since the first…
Winsley celebrates history of printmaking
By Sue Tiffin Meggan Winsley has certainly made her mark on Toronto.The Haliburton-raised artist is drawing attention downtown in the city, her work being featured at the intersection of Queen Street West and Portland Street.Winsley…
Rails End Gallery needs more funding as COVID-19…
By Mike Baker 2020 was a tough year for Haliburton’s Rails End Gallery and Arts Centre.Located on York Street, inside the community’s landmark rail station, the gallery promotes Canadian art, crafts and music created by…
Field Hooky collaboration celebrates childhood, nature
By Sue Tiffin Readers familiar with seeing Deborah J. Reed and Janet Trull’s names and written work in the Haliburton County Echo and County Life will now see their names on a colourful collaboration: a…
Finding the threads that binds us all
By Darren Lum Earlier this month, students at the Cardiff Elementary School and Wilberforce Elementary School learned about the important role nature plays during the year for Indigenous people, particularly during the holiday season.Led by…
Province announces $350K in new tourism funding
By Sue Tiffin Much-anticipated provincial funding to support the tourism region that includes the Haliburton Highlands was announced last Monday, Dec. 7, with $350,000 awarded to Ontario’s Highlands Tourism Organization to help offer relief to…
Dusting off forgotten musical instruments for kids
By Sue Tiffin A new initiative to bring loved but unused instruments into the hands of kids throughout the county is only a few days old, but already an inventory is growing and a couple…
Buckslide Blues Cruise wins best radio show
By Sue TiffinFive years ago, Patrick Monaghan might not have pictured himself sitting in his living room, decked out in Canoe FM swag, a popular radio host with a blues show nominated as one of…
BIA, Lions Club calling on community to help…
By Mike Baker Two local organizations are encouraging area residents to help keep the Christmas spirit alive in Haliburton this festive season.The Haliburton and District Lions Club is teaming up with the Haliburton Village Business…