By Angelica Ingram Published May 17 2016 Haliburton County could be welcoming a refugee family from Syria as early as this summer. Last week the Haliburton Refugee Sponsorship Committee confirmed a family of 10 consisting…
Subway restaurant on the move
By Angelica Ingram Published May 17 2016 Come this summer lovers of footlong sandwiches will be heading in a new direction. Owner of Haliburton’s Subway restaurant Prakashkumar Shah confirmed to the Haliburton Echo that the…
Firefighters assist with kitchen fire
The Dysart Fire Department extinguished a kitchen fire on Sunday May 15 at a residence on Pine Avenue in Haliburton. According to the department a pot of oil caught fire causing the home to fill…
Free seminar to explore healthy eating on a…
By Jenn Watt May 10 2016 Grocery shopping isn’t easy at the best of times. Besides stocking up on enough food you also have to think of which items offer the most nutritional value and…
Haliburton’s Barnum promoted to deputy commissioner
By Darren Lum May 10 2016 Even with the countless miles of travel he does for his police work with the Ontario Provincial Police Haliburton’s Rick Barnum has never forgotten where he comes from. Without…
Highlands East opens information centre
By Angelica Ingram May 10 2016 The following are brief reports of items discussed during a May 9 meeting of Highlands East council. A new information centre has been opened in Highlands East at the…
Local MNRF firefighters to assist in Fort McMurray
By Angelica Ingram May 10 2016 The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry has confirmed that eight of its firefighters based in Haliburton headed out last week to assist with wildfires around Fort McMurray Alta.…
Mamma Mia! here we go again
By Angelica Ingram May 10 2016 It’s difficult to find anyone who is not familiar with the infectious music of ABBA. A pop group who originated from Sweden ABBA has spanned the music landscape for…
Plein Air Month to get artists warmed up…
By Jenn Watt May 10 2016 Painting outside or in plein air is a longstanding Canadian tradition and one that shouldn’t come with any snobbery or competition says local artist Gary Blundell. Blundell is the…
Human remains identified as David Palmer
Police say they have found human remains near Haliburton following a search for Bowmanville man David Palmer. On May 10 OPP confirmed the remains were that of Palmer's following a post mortem examination done on…
Cigarette suspected culprit of Haliburton area brush fire
A discarded cigarette is the suspected cause of a grass fire on Friday afternoon on Stoney Creek Road located off of Haliburton Lake Road in Haliburton. The Dysart Fire Department’s eight firefighters and five trucks…
New dock and boathouse regs trouble councillors
By Chad Ingram Published May 3 2016 A court ruling requiring Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry approval for docks and boathouses in the province is causing considerable concern for local politicians. Last year the…
Councillors make change to ATV start on Rail…
By Chad Ingram Published May 3 2016 Haliburton County councillors have made a change to the official spring opening of the Haliburton County Rail Trail to ATVs although in practice there will be little difference.…
Cruiser crash in West Guilford
P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } An OPP cruiser wound up in a ditch inWest Guilford on the evening of Friday April 29. Haliburton Highlands OPP confirmed thatat approximately 6:30 p.m.…
Gauging the impact of cycling
By Chad Ingram Published May 3 2016 Cyclists visiting Haliburton County spend on average $450 during their stay. That’s one of the findings of a cycling economic impact survey for the Haliburton Highlands conducted by…
Haliburton wood carver wins at world championships
By Angelica Ingram Published May 3 2016 Greg Gillespie is now a master carver. A wood carver for more than 30 years Greg recently competed in the Ward World Championships held in Maryland at the…
HHHS preparing for assisted death legislation
By Chad Ingram Published May 3 2016 The following are brief reports of items discussed during an April 28 meeting of the Haliburton Highlands Health Services board. HHHS is preparing for the implications of the…
High school students examine themselves for art exhibition
By Angelica Ingram Published May 3 2016 The concept of a selfie has been around for hundreds of years. While the word just made its way into the Oxford dictionary in recent years selfies have…
Masons looking to help parents
By Darren Lum Having vital information about your child is a big help to law enforcement agencies in cases of missing children said local Mason member and past grand registrar of the Grand Lodge of…
Seeing Arctic beauty through the lens
By Darren Lum Published May 3 2016 Wildlife photographer Ron Goodlin is bringing the Arctic to the Highlands with his multimedia presentation Da Bears on May 13 at 7 p.m. at the Haliburton Highlands Outdoors…
Changes coming to Gooderham post office
By Angelica Ingram Published May 3 2016 Changes are in store for the Gooderham post office as the municipality of Highlands East has sent a letter to Canada Post outlining its intent to end their…