By Angelica Ingram April 26 2016 Following months of an ongoing battle between the Trilliums Lakelands District School Board and the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation District 15 the school board has now gone to…
Trillium funds four local groups
By Jenn Watt April 26 2016 Four local organizations have received a collective $753600 in Ontario Trillium Foundation grants to fund community projects. Sums and project descriptions were released earlier this month with the Haliburton…
Turtle monitors train for final year of study
By Jenn Watt April 26 2016 A few wary glances shot across the audience as Titanic the snapping turtle was hoisted before the crowd. A grand finale of sorts the tire-size reptile was at the…
County to appeal to ombudsman on OPP billing
By Chad Ingram April 19 2016 Haliburton County will lodge a complaint with the Ontario ombudsman regarding the OPP billing formula asking the ombudsman’s office to review the billing framework that came into effect last…
Echo top finisher in Canadian newspaper awards
April 19 2016 The Haliburton County Echo has been awarded a second place for General Excellence for its circulation category from the Canadian Community Newspaper Awards. General excellence takes into account editorial quality typography advertising…
First responders welcome PTSD laws
By Angelica Ingram April 19 2016 Twenty-three years ago Mike Landry’s OPP partner was killed in the line of duty. That incident changed his life forever. An OPP officer for 30 years Landry retired from…
Haliburton artist Shelley Beach wins gold at TWS’s…
Submitted by Tayce Wakefield April 19 2016 Haliburton artist Shelley Beach was awarded the Toronto Watercolour Society’s Gold Level of Distinction for being juried into 35 shows and was awarded a gold medal for Juror’s…
History goes online in Highlands East
By Jenn Watt April 19 2016 History is a resource more fragile than most; it must be captured quickly and accurately from those who lived it or it can be lost forever. It’s a struggle…
SPARC welcomes new network co-ordinator
By Angelica Ingram April 19 2016 If Greg Thomas could have created a dream job for himself this would have been it. Thomas 36 is one of the most recent additions to the community since…
Wayson Choy challenges audience to inspire
By Darren Lum April 19 2016 An enraptured audience hung on Wayson Choy’s every word seeing the world through his eyes. The celebrated Canadian author who had two near-death experiences spoke with an inspiring honesty…
TLDSB launches Your Voice Matters campaign
Published April 13 2016 Trillium Lakelands District School Board (TLDSB) has launched a community engagement campaign called Your Voice Matters to help gain a better understanding of what is important to parents staff students and…
Concert brings Africa to the Highlands
By Darren Lum Published April 12 2016 West Africa is coming to Haliburton later this month through the words the rhythmic steps and evocative songs from bilingual entertainer Fana Soro. Soro will share the culture…
Hawks soar to new heights for autism
By Darren Lum Published April 12 2016 There were laughs and looks of fright at the local high school this past week for Autism Speaks Light It Up Blue campaign to raise money and awareness…
Opportunities abound at the municipal level CAOs say
By Darren Lum Published April 12 2016 It was a stroll down memory lane as much as it was an opportunity to encourage students in high school to consider municipal work for local chief administrative…
Reno veterans take over Cordell Carpet
By Jenn Watt Published April 12 2016 Whether you knew it or not for the last 40 years Brad Sales has put his name behind his company Cordell Carpet. The alliterative mainstay of home improvement…
Warboy tells story of starvation and survival for…
By Jenn Watt Published April 12 2016 Martin Hofland’s memoir Warboy is a story of starvation fear and profound gratitude. Many in the Highlands are familiar with Hofland who for years has been working to…
Iles to lead Dysart fire dept
Published April 12 2016 Responding to emergencies and putting out fires has been a decades-long passion for firefighter Mike Iles who will become fire chief for Dysart et al as of July 1. The service…
Schmale had largest election budget report shows
Published April 12 2016 Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock MP Jamie Schmale had the largest campaign budget of the four candidates for the riding in last October’s federal election a report from Elections Canada shows. Schmale’s grand total…
Woodcarver heads to world championships
By Angelica Ingram Published April 12 2016 Greg Gillespie isn’t considered a master carver yet but he hopes to one day be one. A retired fish and wildlife specialist with the Ministry of Natural Resources…
Country hoedown raises money for Lions Club
By Jenn Watt Plaid shirts and cowboy hats dotted the crowd at the Haliburton Legion branch on Saturday March 19 for the second annual Lions Club Chuck Wagon Dinner and Hoedown. The smell of meat…
Crooked Brothers to bring rootsy folk-funk sounds to…
Music that is described as both gritty and pretty at the same time is what one can expect at the Crooked Brothers’ concert on Saturday April 16 at the Northern Lights Performing Arts Pavilion. The…