By Jenn Watt Published August 9 2016 Haliburton Highlands Health Services will be improving its infrastructure with a chunk of money from the provincial government. Last week MPP Jeff Leal’s office announced HHHS will receive…
Highlands East to support youth at SPARC
By Angelica Ingram Published by Aug. 9 2016 The following are brief reports of items discussed at the Aug. 8 meeting of Highlands East council. Highlands East will be sponsoring two youth to attend an…
Homelessness count begins
By Chad Ingram Published August 9 2016 Are you couch surfing? Living in a shelter? Homeless? The 20000 Homes Campaign would like to hear from you. The City of Kawartha Lakes which is the social…
OPP investigating vandalism in Head Lake Park
By Angela Long Published August 9 2016 Vandalism that occurred sometime late Friday night or early Saturday morning in Head Lake Park left a decorative cart belonging to Rails End Gallery destroyed along with some…
Three generations of Scouts come home
By Angela Long Published August 9 2016 The signs begin after a few kilometres of dirt road bordered by forest: Please report all mosquito sightings. Who cut the cheese? Speak now or forever hold your…
VBS takes kids out into the wilderness
By Angelica Ingram Published August 9 2016 Children of all ages in Haliburton got a taste of the outdoors last week as they went on a wilderness escape at Lakeside Baptist Church for the annual…
Water levels to drop on some TSW feeder…
By Chad Ingram Published Aug. 9 2016 Parks Canada is accelerating the drawdown on Trent Severn Waterway feeder lakes in Haliburton County as dry conditions continue this summer. Water levels on some reservoir and flow-through…
County without ambulances on multiple occasions
By Chad Ingram August 2 2016 Eight times in the first six months of 2016 there were zero ambulances available in Haliburton County those incidents equating to a total of 12 hours. EMS director and…
Local couple embarks on new business adventure
By Angelica Ingram August 2 2016 When Greg Luck and Abby Hagerman were camping across Canada this past spring they were also hard at work promoting their new business. The young couple who call Haliburton…
Tour de Forest offers colourful art tour
By Huw Morgan August 2 2016 Yves Ameline stands with his acrylic paintings at Studio J on Tour de Forest. The 10th annual studio tour offered 26 artists at 14 studios on July 30 and…
Agnew's General Store a hub of the community
By Angelica Ingram Published July 28 2016 This is the second instalment of a feature series on general stores in cottage country. Agnew’s General Store has been a family tradition since 1921. Founded as a…
Artist gathers impressions of garbage
By Jenn Watt Published July 28 2016 Valerie Ashton thinks the earth might be telling her something as she works on her residency at Haliburton School of Art and Design. Trees keep emerging from the…
Boat tour offers different view of Haliburton
By Angelica Ingram Published July 28 2016 The Lady of the Lake has a calm and unassuming presence. Unlike some boats she's not loud and fast but rather as her name would suggest graceful elegant…
Building an enchanted forest
By Jenn Watt Published on July 28 2016 Phoebe Stamp loves her grandparents’ house. She explores the outdoors running along the paths and over bridges discovering the wilderness. But when it came to the woods…
New initiative wants you to Get on Gelert…
By Angelica Ingram Published on July 28 2016 When local artist April Gates decided to move her home and business to the hamlet of Donald she was excited about the offerings her new neighbourhood would…
Paddle art contest marks significant anniversary
By Angelica Ingram Published on July 28 2016 In 2017 Canadians will mark a historic milestone in the art world as next summer will be the 100th anniversary of the death of Tom Thomson one…
Plucking the heartstrings of the world
By Angela Long Published July 28 2016 Somewhere on Drag Lake a man sits in a Muskoka chair sipping a single-malt scotch. He’s trekked the jungles of Rwanda to meet silver-backed gorillas flown to Monte…
Water Lilies transcends and unites
By Jenn Watt Published July 28 2016 When the world was at war French painter Claude Monet was in his gardens at Giverny painting. It wasn’t a retreat artist and instructor Andrea Mossop says rather…
‘Art rock star’ Robert Bateman headed to HSAD
By Angela Long July 26 2016 It’s Monday morning on Saltspring Island British Columbia and Robert Bateman can’t decide which painting to work on next. There’s the pheasant sitting on a stone wall a snowshoe…
Brazda brings vintage vibe to Haliburton
By Chad Ingram Published July 26 2016 The Haliburton Highlands Museum could have been a 1920s American speak-easy on Saturday night. Well minus the booze. Toronto-based jazz songstress Tia Brazda and her quintet breezed into…
Elizabeth May to speak in Minden on Aug. 25
Environment Haliburton has invited Elizabeth May Officer of the Order of Canada Member of Parliament for Saanich-Gulf Islands and Leader of the Green Party of Canada to speak on Aug. 25 at their annual keynote speaker…