By Elizabeth Bate Staff board members and community members for A Point in Time Centre for Children Youth and Parents came together to congratulate each other and celebrate another year at their annual general meeting…
God remains part of county inaugural ceremony
By Chad Ingram God will stay part of the inaugural ceremony for new Haliburton County councils. At least for now. As councillors on the county’s finance and correspondence committee reviewed the municipality’s procedural bylaw during…
Haliburton Echo wins first in general excellence
April 7 2014 The Haliburton Echo was honoured with a first place finish for general excellence in its circulation category at the Ontario Community Newspaper Association awards gala in Vaughan on April 4. Sister paper…
Schmale seeks Conservative candidacy
March 10 2014 · 0 Comments By Chad Ingram Jamie Schmale wants his boss’s job. Schmale chief of staff for MP Barry Devolin will toss his hat in the proverbial ring for the Conservative candidacy…
Canoe FM morning show host bids farewell to…
May 6 2014 · 0 Comments By Angelica Blenich Your morning drive to work that first cup of coffee and the reeve’s report will no longer be the same as a familiar voice that floated…
Friends remember Lee Blair
February 25 2014 · 0 Comments By Jenn Watt Humble honest nature-loving – the traits associated with the late Lee Blair are grounded in the very earth he spent his life moving. Blair died at…
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By Darren Lum March 25 2014 Holden Truss Ltd owner Kirk Holden was almost at his Eagle Lake home Thursday afternoon when he received a call alerting him of the fire at his building. He…
Update: Snowmobile fatality in Harcourt Park
March 23 2014 · Submitted by Haliburton Highlands OPP On Sunday March 23 at 6:50 a.m. Ontario Provincial Police officers from the Haliburton Highlands detachment responded to a snowmobile collision on Allen Lake in Dysart…
Mischief at the laundromat
Haliburton Highlands Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police are investigating mischief at the Parkside Laundromat in Haliburton on February 21 2014 between 5:30 – 10 p.m. Unknown persons entered the washroom in the Laundromat and…
Public weigh in on health care in Canada
By Angelica Blenich Many of those relying on health care in Haliburton County believe there needs to be more focus on front line staff and less on government bureaucracy. That was one of the many…
County council costs just more than $100000
March 18 2014 By Chad Ingram Haliburton County council cost taxpayers a little more than $100000 to operate for 2013. Members of the county’s finance and correspondence committee received council expenditures for last year during…
Public weighs in on Greens Mountain Plan
April 8 2014 · 0 Comments By Angelica Blenich An educational facility a site for astronomy observing nature or horseback riding. These are just some of the many ideas people have for what could be…
Dog show haunted house coming to park
By Angelica Blenich
Leveraging the power of the biggest generation
April 28 2014 By Jenn Watt CityTV founder and Canadian media mogul Moses Znaimer is best known for reimagining television and the audience’s role in creating the media. Now he’s pushing a new revolution of…
Trip changes perspective on life
By Darren Lum February 18 2014
Loop Troupe hits the stage for library fundraiser
April 16 2014 By Angelica Blenich A lighthouse a rowboat a cellar a plumber and a daughter. These are just some of the things featured in the fun-filled evening Not Just Desserts. A joint initiative between the…
Family Health Team board adds Loucks to its…
Former Haliburton Highlands Health Services CEO Foster Loucks is thenewest appointment to the Family Health Team board of directorsoccupying the role of community representative. Loucks brings a lifetime of health experience to the table and…
Third Time is the charm
Haliburton resident Sue Shikaze bites her Boston Marathon medal aftercompleting her third last week in a personal best time. Although theHighlands runner is proud of shattering her personal best BostonMarathon time by 20 minutes she…
Beauty of birds revealed in upcoming show
April 23 2014 Dan Busby photographer and bird expert is showcasing his work like this common loon on Head Lake as part of his upcoming show Birds by Busby at the Rails End Gallery in…
Highlands Summer Festival staging Great Expectations
July 2 2014 The Highlands Summer Festival is staging the Charles Dickens’ classic novel Great Expectations.
Our capacity for creativity
July 2 2014 By Lynda Shadbolt I recently walked the Sculpture Forest over the at the college in the early morning and found myself contemplating our capacity as human beings for being creative. I am pretty…