Keeping people in their homes and out of the hospital when possible is the thrust of the most recent service plan coming from the Central East Local Health Integration Network. Titled “Living Healthier at Home”…
County council cost $105K to operate for 2015
By Chad Ingram Haliburton County council which consists of the reeves and deputy-reeves of the county’s four lower-tier townships cost about $105000 to operate in 2015. Remuneration for councillors was presented in a report during…
Dale Goldhawk coming to the Highlands
By Angelica Ingram Popular radio personality journalist and author Dale Goldhawk wants to help you navigate some of the difficulties of aging. Host of Goldhawk Fights Back on Zoomer radio the seniors’ advocate is coming…
Township investing in park improvements
By Darren Lum The Rotary Park in Haliburton is going to receive a $100000 makeover as part of the Rotary Beach Revitalization Project. With $50000 from the Canada 150 Project grant Dysart is kicking in…
Dysart signs on to broadband deal
By Angelica Ingram The following are brief reports of items discussed at the Feb. 18 meeting of Dysart et al council. The municipality has entered into a master services agreement with Bell for a new…
Emergency service calls up nearly nine per cent
By Chad Ingram Call volumes for Haliburton County’s paramedics increased by nearly nine per cent in 2015. A report from paramedic chief and EMS director Craig Jones shows the total number of calls paramedics received…
Fleming’s Haliburton campus changes name
By Jenn Watt Reflecting the school’s evolution in recent years Fleming College announced Monday that Haliburton School of the Arts would be changing its name to Haliburton School of Art and Design. The marketing team…
Haliburton County supports Blue Dot movement
By Chad Ingram The following are brief reports of items discussed during a Feb. 17 meeting of Haliburton County council. Haliburton County councillors passed a resolution in support of the Blue Dot movement a campaign…
Tackling climate change with humility and hope
By Jenn Watt Norman Yan has great hope that we can harness knowledge and human ingenuity to solve some of the world’s biggest problems including climate change. The scientist with five decades of experience including…
Winterdance fan experiences Yukon Quest
By Angelica Ingram When Marilyn Hubley got a phone call from Winterdance Dogsled Tours employee Barb Bohlin about volunteering at the upcoming Dogsled Derby she questioned why the message said it was an urgent matter…
$1500 raised from Battle of the Bands
By Jenn Watt It was standing room only on Friday night for Battle of the Bands at the Haliburton Community Centre above the arena. A long list of local talent took turns taking to the…
Hydro arrears trouble council
By Chad Ingram Haliburton County residents generated 20 per cent of requests for financial assistance from those who are homeless or on the brink of homelessness from the Kawartha Lakes and Haliburton Housing Help Centre…
Eagle Lake barn burns to ground
By Angelica Ingram On Tuesday Feb. 9 Haliburton resident Erin Nicholls stood outside watching flames shoot up in the sky as a decades-old barn in Eagle Lake burned to the ground. The barn was home…
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The Haliburton County Echo is in the top three for five categories in the Ontario Community Newspaper Association’s Better Newspapers Competition. The nominees were announced on Friday Feb. 12. The Haliburton County Echo has been…
Friends of Rail Trail working to connect people …
By Darren Lum The Friends of the Rail Trail are proud of their past educating about and endorsing the use of the Haliburton Rail Trail but also excited for the future with their Toronto to…
Home lottery chooses Silver Beach as grand prize…
By Jenn Watt The Haliburton Highlands has a place in this year’s Princess Margaret Cancer Centre Home Lottery. A 1300-square-foot Silver Beach bungalow worth $458874 is one of seven grand prize homes in the popular…
Renowned researcher to speak at Environment Haliburton AGM
By Angelica Ingram On Saturday Feb. 20 Environment Haliburton will be hosting its annual general meeting featuring Dr. Norman Yan as the guest speaker. A fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Yan is also…
Sunday fire causes $100000 in damage
A fire on Sunday devoured a car and part of a home on Redkenn Drive in the Kennisis Lake area. According to Dysart et al fire chief Miles Maughan 15 firefighters responded to the call…
Canoe FM makes history with OLA award
By Darren Lum Canoe FM station manager Roxanne Casey said she was taken aback by the magnitude of the crowd with more than 1500 people in front of her when she accepted the Ontario Library…
Coping with rising food costs in the Highlands
By Jenn Watt By now most of us have seen the online spoof: a couple goes into a bank looking for a loan to buy a cauliflower. The cartoon is obviously a joke but underlying…
Fire in Eagle Lake burns barn to theground
P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } By Angelica Ingram A blaze on Eagle Lake Road destroyed adecades old barn that was home to a variety of animals on TuesdayFebruary 9. Dysart firefighters got the call around11…