By Robert Mackenzie Published June 20 2017 Haliburton’s watersheds are at risk due to pollution habitat fragmentation overuse of water and other threats according to the World Wildlife Fund. The results of the WWF’s Watershed…
Weekend storms cause power outages
By Sue Tiffin Published June 20 2017 More than 2000 people were still without power in Haliburton County on the afternoon of June 19 after storms that generated a tornado warning on the weekend blew…
Wind and Solar powers up at grand opening
By Sue Tiffin Published June 20 2017 Visitors to the grand opening of the Haliburton Solar and Wind headquarters and demo site wanted to see how living off grid was possible. Owner Brian Nash noted…
Senior's Spotlight: Steve Hill
By Robert Mackenzie Published June 8 2017 Steve Hill has been working in museums since he was 16 years old in Markham Ontario. “I'd go over to the museum and I kept going back because…
Shout Sisters to sing for affordable housing
By Jenn Watt Published June 13 2017 They sing for the joy of it and to better the community. Each year the Shout Sister Choir puts on a fundraising concert to bring in dollars for…
SIRCH expects surplus by September
By Robert Mackenzie Published June 13 2017 After running a deficit in the year prior SIRCH community services expects to be back in the black by September. The Haliburton County charity presented their financial statement…
Committee recommends against rezoning for church
Published June 13 2107 Much to the delight of Harmony Road residents Dysart et al’s public meeting committee is recommending against a rezoning application that would allow Lighthouse Pentecostal Church to begin services in their…
Students update Highlands East on septic inspection
By Sue Tiffin Published June 13 2017 The following are brief reports of items discussed during a June 7 meeting of Highlands East council. Student inspectors Adam Bird and Robert Carter updated council on the…
BioBlitz to document local species
By Robert Mackenzie Published June 13 2017 More than 40 scientists will be pulling an all-nighter at the Dahl Forest June 24 as part of Haliburton’s first ever BioBlitz. A BioBlitz is a gathering of…
Centre aims to advance sustainability education
By Jenn Watt Published June 13 2017 The Highlands has a long history of environmental education. Partnerships throughout Haliburton County and into Peterborough and the Kawartha regions had led to the success of several programs…
Eagle Lake women mark 80 years
By Jenn Watt Published June 13 2017 For the last 80 years the Eagle Lake Women’s Society has been improving lives in the Highlands steadfastly and quietly. Raising money through member dues and quilt raffles…
Haliburton chamber of commerce focuses on advocacy
By Robert Mackenzie Published June 13 2017 Richard Wannan was approved as the new president of the Haliburton Highlands Chamber of Commerce at the group’s annual general meeting last Tuesday June 6. Wannan who works…
Sculptures shaped by the landscape
By Robert Mackenzie Staff reporter Five famous sculptors gathered in Haliburton to talk about the influence setting has had on their work at a panel discussion Wednesday evening. The panel was part of the Haliburton Sculpture…
Shirley through the Looking Glass
By Jenn Watt Published June 13 2017 Shirley Beveridge identifies herself mostly as a hairdresser. Snipping clipping and colouring since she was a teenager the Haliburton stylist has always been passionate about helping clients achieve…
Minor injuries reported after buscollision
By Sue Tiffin Staff reporter Published June 12 2017 A Grade 8 graduation trip didn't getoff to a great start when the two buses carrying Don Valley MiddleSchool students to Camp White Pine in Haliburton…
Winning design brings lake to the kitchen
By Robert Mackenzie Staff reporter A Bob Lake kitchen renovation has won Haliburton interior decorating company ACM Designs a silver medal in this year’s Canadian Decorators’ Association Decorating and Design Competition. Andria Cowen Molyneaux ACM’s…
Haliburton's Point in Time in fine form membership…
By Jenn Watt Published June 13 2017 Point in Time Centre for Children Youth and Parents used its annual general meetings as a platform to celebrate staff and community achievements. There was the message from…
Haliburton Lions mark international club's 100th anniversary
By Jenn Watt Published June 7 2017 One hundred years ago a businessman in Chicago named Melvin Jones launched an international service club that would go on to become the largest in the world: the…
Constable to take stage at summer festival
By Robert Mackenzie Published June 6 2017 This year’s Highlands Summer Festival will feature a familiar face for television fans. Paul Constable also known as Gary from the Canadian Tire commercials will be performing in…
Creating ‘sound magic’ at the Forest
By Sue Tiffin Published June 6 2017 A pause – a temporary break – can be profound. Stuart Laughton speaks passionately of the pause afforded to him at the peaceful and secluded Bone Lake at…
Haliburton County supports cellular project
By Chad Ingram Published June 6 2017 Haliburton County council along with the councils of its lower-tier municipalities recently passed resolutions in support of the latest project by the Eastern Ontario Regional Network (EORN) a…