By Robert Mackenzie Published May 30 2017 Haliburton’s Home and Cottage Show one of the biggest in the province is returning to the county for the 39th year this June 2 weekend. Rick Ashall says…
Council says no to second boat race
By Chad Ingram Published May 30 2017 Dysart et al council is giving the red light to a second weekend of power boat racing on Head Lake. Members of the Ontario Power Boat Racing Association…
County questions its role in UN designation
Councillors seek clarity on touted achievement By Chad Ingram Published May 30 2017 Earlier this year Haliburton County was designated as an exceptional area for environmental education by the United Nations. The UN chose Peterborough…
Deep Roots plants itself in new Wilberforce home
By Sue Tiffin Published May 30 2017 Corina Mansfield is passionate about being outdoors but it wasn’t always that way. A few years ago she was feeling a bit bored of her work as an…
Entrepreneur teen stocks county storesBy Sue Tiffin
Published May 30 2017 Erik Morrison is a natural born businessman. At 14 the Wilberforce resident runs Erikord Survival a thriving paracord products company that supplies his designs at retailers across the county and through…
Fashion Fallies returning to Haliburton in November
By Robert Mackenzie Published May 30 2017 Fashion Fallies Haliburton County’s whimsical fun outrageous catwalk is returning this fall following a six-year hiatus. This November the Arts Council and Haliburton School of Art and Design…
Health services corp balances budget
By Jenn Watt Published May 30 2017 The following are brief reports of items discussed at the May 25 meeting of the Haliburton Highlands Health Services board. Haliburton Highlands Health Services is in the black…
Shoppers Drug Mart to move downtown
By Darren Lum Published May 30 2017 Haliburton’s Shoppers Drug Mart plans to move and expand later this year. Aimee Mansfield an associate owner and pharmacist at the location is happy about the plans for…
HHHS balances budget
By Jenn Watt Published May 25 2017 Haliburton Highlands Health Services is in the black this year. Finance committee chairman David Gray gave a report to the board at its May 25 meeting in which…
$15 minimum wage unpopular with Chamber of Commerce
By Robert Mackenzie Published May 23 2017 Haliburton’s Chamber of Commerce has spoken out against a $15 minimum wage and other potential changes to Ontario employment laws reportedly being considered by the provincial Liberal government.…
Big Bike raises cash for lifesaving research
By Jenn Watt Published May 23 2017 Dressed in red T-shirts and ball caps members of the Haliburton Highlands Stroke Support Group are gathered in around a picnic bench in Head Lake Park on a…
Charity barbecue to benefit county’s kids
By Jenn Watt Published May 23 2017 Just more than a week before the fourth annual Food for Kids fundraiser at Sears Adrian and Wendy Vargas their staff and volunteers are gearing up to raise…
Land trust recording bat sightings
By Jenn Watt Published May 23 2017 Ontario has eight species of bats and all of them have been spotted in the Haliburton Highlands. However in recent years half of the province’s bat species have…
Lucky returns to Highlands for house concert
By Chad Ingram Published May 23 2017 Country troubadour Zachary Lucky will bring his hearty brand of roots music back to the Haliburton Highlands for a house concert at Wildwood Farm just outside Haliburton Village…
Out of the gloomy winter rises one grateful…
By Robert Mackenzie Published May 23 2017 It's a beautiful day in Haliburton and I'm inside my Echo office banging my head against a desk because I'm not good at writing personal introductions like this.…
Savage awaits trial in David Palmer murder
By Sue Tiffin Published May 23 2017 William Savage accused with the first-degree murder of Bowmanville man David Palmer remains in jail with his next courtroom appearance set for June 30 in Lindsay. Savage from…
NewsNews Scott pleased as human trafficking bill becomes law
Scott pleased as human trafficking bill becomes law By Chad Ingram Published May 23 2017 Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock MPP Laurie Scott is glad that victims of human trafficking in Ontario will have greater recourse after the…
Solar energy project addresses residents’ letter
By Sue Tiffin Published May 23 2017 The following are brief reports of items discussed during a May 17 meeting of Highlands East council. Rob Hitchcock business development manager for Abundant Solar Energy Inc. made…
Trip to Japan inspires local club
By Jenn Watt Published May 23 2017 The group from Haliburton arrived in Japan just as the cherry blossoms were unfurling on the trees. It had been a cool spring and the iconic pink flowers…
Average EMS response time in county: 12 minutes
By Chad Ingram Published May 16 2017 The average response time to EMS calls in Haliburton County is 12 minutes or about 18 minutes if the villages of Haliburton and Minden are excluded. The county…
Drag Lake dam repairs on track
Published May 16 2017 Parks Canada says work on rehabilitating the Drag Lake Dam is going well. Culverts are being used to take care of outflows during the flooding and lake levels have not been…