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…
Injured turtle crossing gets divine intervention
By Sue Tiffin Published June 6 2017 What appeared to be a nun holding a shopping bag and an umbrella attempting to help a wounded snapping turtle cross the street caused traffic to slow down…
LCBO workers bring labour concerns to public
By Robert Mackenzie Published June 6 2017 Members from Ontario Public SectorEmployees Union (OPSEU) Local 379 were picketing outside ofHaliburton's LCBO Wednesday afternoon in order to raise awareness ofthe union's current contract negotiations. Local 379…
Proposed bait policy to bring big changes for…
By Steve Galea Published June 6 2017 A proposal by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry that would change the way live bait can be collected distributed and kept in Ontario is the target…
Remembering Phoenix Acero
By Jenn Watt Published June 6 2017 Phoenix Acero could strike up a conversation with just about anyone. When he was five years old he started talking about fresh produce with a couple of 70-year-old…
Storytime event to encourage love of reading
Retired educator Gail Stelter said there’s nothing better you can do for your children than to read to them. Fifteen minutes a night is all it takes to plant the seeds of literacy which pays…