An inter-library loan service allowing county residents to request and have delivered materials from outside the Haliburton County Public Library’s collection will remain suspended locally for the time being. As previously reported the spring’s provincial…
By Darren Lum Love is at the heart of why two J. Douglas Hodgson Elementary School students donated money to the Hospital for Sick Children. Grade 7 students Macie Hunter and Allie Todd both of…
By Darren Lum Named for Katie Woudstra Katie’s Run has been at the forefront of raising awareness for epilepsy and fundraising for epilepsy research in this province raising $250000 in eight years. Every year the…
By Vanessa Balintec TravelMaven’s Barry Devolin and the Haliburton Rotary have chosen two Haliburton residents to send to the World Youth Rally in South Korea July 14 to 19. Rebecca Anderson and Kelsey Crowe have…
By Darren Lum The beauty and expression of art is the foundation of organizing work done by two Grade 7 students from J.D. Hodgson Elementary School. Annika Posti and Autumn Winder have organized for several…
This week is a good time to spot a very elusive planet Mercury. Little Mercury is the closest planet orbiting our sun and just as the speedy messenger of its namesake it races around our…
Work being done in Muskoka and Haliburton would return calcium to soils and lakes By Jenn Watt A legacy of acid rain falling calcium levels in some forests and lakes has put pressure on the…
Over the last 33 years Marie Hodgson has watched Wee Care grow up from the small business she created in 1986 to the bustling daycare it is today. Now she says it’s time to retire…
Staff reporter Police are investigating a death on McCaslim Lake in Highlands East after a small aluminum fishing boat carrying three people capsized on June 22 leaving one man dead. Members of the Haliburton Highlands…
BySue Tiffin Haliburton-KawarthaLakes-Brock MPP Laurie Scott has been named the Minister ofInfrastructure switching portfolios with Monte McNaughton who takesover the Minister of Labour position which Scott has occupied since June of 2018. The second majorcabinet…
By Vanessa Balintec Published June 18 2019 If you’ve seen a tall fellow wearing a baseball cap covered from neck to chest in tattoos wandering in town chances are you’ve seen the new head chef…
Published June 18 2019 By staff The Haliburton County Echo was honoured to receive recognition from the Canadian Community Newspaper Awards this year. The Echo placed second for Best All-Round Newspaper in its circulation category;…
Published June 18 2019 Six new sculptures will appear on Highland Street on Thursday June 20 as part of the Haliburton Downtown Sculpture Exhibition. This is the second year for this joint project of the…
By Darren Lum There’s a lot to appreciate at Haliburton’s new store Mathew Madlyn located next to the town’s cenotaph at Highland and York streets. There’s a wall of Canadian-made shirts with positive messages part…
By Chad Ingram The OPP have confirmed they areinvestigating a homicide that took place in Haliburton Village in theearly hours of June 18. Haliburton Highlands OPP were called toa house along Highland Street just after…
By Jenn Watt Published June 18 2019 The partnership between local charity The Land Between and property owner Jim O’Connor to restore the old Donald Chemical building seems to have ended. The two parties have…
By Jenn Watt Changes in how the provincial government structures its ministries has presented Point in Time Centre for Children Youth and Parents with challenges in the last year but executive director Marg Cox said…
By Jenn Watt Published June 18 2019 A study released last week found that District 6 the area covering Haliburton through to Pembroke was the most commonly visited region in Ontario by snowmobilers in the…
By Shelley Schell Published June 18 2019 Fleming College’s formal celebrations feature a beautiful hand-crafted ceremonial mace. Esteemed silversmith Todd Jeffrey Ellis was commissioned in September 2018 to design and create the mace as a…
The following are brief reports of items discussed at a June 11 meeting of Highlands East council. By Sue Tiffin The septic re-inspection program began on May 7 at Upper Paudash Lake according to Jonas…
By Staff The driver of a motorcycle suffered life-threatening injuries and a passenger received non-life-threatening injuries following a collision on Highway 118 north of Thunderbird Drive in Highlands East on Sunday June 16 just before…