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…
Future of events up in air
By Angelica Ingram The following are brief reports of items discussed at the Feb. 1 annual general meeting of the Haliburton Business Improvement Area. There was a lot of talk about last year’s Colourfest a…
Health unit sends out immunization reminders
The local health unit has been sending out notices to parents and guardians who haven’t yet had their children vaccinated against a series of diseases. Under the Immunization of School Pupils Act students attending Ontario…
Highlands East thrilled with broadband deal
By Angelica Ingram The following are brief reports of items discussed at the Feb. 8 meeting of Highlands East council. The municipality of Highlands East is happy to be signing onto a new high-speed Internet…
How sweet it is: beekeeping workshop on offer…
By Jenn Watt For most of Ron Lofthouse’s life the buzz of the bees and smell of honey has been a constant. He thinks he “caught the bug” when he was five walking into Lorne…
Looking for info on ridesharing
By Chad Ingram Do you regularly hitch rides with friends or give rides to others? The Community Transportation Partnership run by a group focused on rural transportation options for the county has hired consultant Kate…
Provincial directives trouble health unit
By Chad Ingram The Haliburton Kawartha Pine Ridge District Health Unit has concerns about the implications of funding and potential accountability changes coming from the province. Last fall the health unit learned it would be…
Sir Sam’s commemorating anniversary with Golden Gala
By Angelica Ingram When most people think about a ski hill images of snowsuits uncomfortable boots and tuques come to mind. But those things will be traded in for cocktail attire and glitz on the…
Talks break off between school board and union:…
By Angelica Ingram After just a couple of hours talks between the Trillium Lakelands District School Board and the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation ended. The negotiations were called off on Feb. 4 by the…
Life through the lens
By Darren Lum The Senior Spotlight feature recognizes local seniors who are nominated by CARP’s local chapter in Haliburton. Haliburton’s Fred Phipps turns the pages to his photo album like flipping through the history of…
Nominees announced for Haliburton Highlands Chamber of Commerce…
The Haliburton Highlands Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce that 93 nominations have been received for 64 different businesses organizations and individuals in our community for this year’s Business and Community Achievement Awards Gala.…
County signs new broadband deal
By Chad Ingram Haliburton County is entering into a new agreement with Bell for the provision of high-speed Internet to a number of publicly owned buildings that will increase the number of public wireless hotspots…