By Angelica Ingram At times it was difficult to decipher if you were at a concert or a Yuks Yuks comedy night. When David Francey performed this past Saturday at the Northern Lights Performing Arts…
HHOA fish hatchery included in county budget
By Chad Ingram Haliburton County councillors passed the municipality’s 2016 budget during a Jan. 27 meeting and that budget includes a $10000 grant for the Haliburton Highlands Outdoors Association for the operation of the Haliburton…
Inaugural Battle of the Bands coming soon to…
By Angelica Ingram Get your guitar drumsticks and singing voice ready. The first Battle of the Bands is coming to Haliburton in just a few weeks and organizers are looking for you. Set to take…
Local musher begins Yukon Quest
By Angelica Ingram It won’t be Hank DeBruin’s first time embarking on a 1000 mile (1600 kilometre) trek across the tundra but that doesn’t make the task any less daunting. To say the quiet 53-year-old…
Peter Bowers photography showing at Pinestone
By Jenn Watt Some of Peter Bowers’s best photographs were composed during the most inconvenient times and circumstances: right after snowfall during a particularly frigid day in the earliest hours of dawn. The results of…
Spilling the beans on Haliburton roastery
By Jenn Watt Oliver Zielke gets a charge when he thinks of people across the Highlands sipping coffee he roasted. He imagines them in their homes and offices preparing for their day at work or…
Success is all about attitude: Larter
By Jenn Watt Meeting Oprah Winfrey was on Lisa Larter’s bucket list so when she heard the famed talk show host was coming to Ottawa she started planning. While most people would buy a ticket…
Tourist info centre to close at year’s end
By Chad Ingram Haliburton County will close its tourist information centre along Highway 35 in Minden at the end of the year. County councillors made that decision during a Jan. 27 council meeting. At a…
Highlands East man dies aftersnowmobile goes through ice
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New technology could be coming to Haliburton
P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } By Angelica Ingram A new type of green energy could be manufactured in Haliburton County in the future. On Jan. 27 community members gathered at Pinestone Resort and Conference Centre…
County heading for 3.85 per cent tax hike
By Chad Ingram Councillors on Haliburton County’s finance and correspondence committee are recommending the municipality contribute an extra $280000 to reserves in 2016 which would result in a 3.85 per cent tax rate increase at…
Crosswalk being reconsidered
By Angelica Ingram The following are brief reports of items discussed at the Jan. 25 meeting of Dysart et al council. Councillors are straying from a decision they made last year regarding a pedestrian crosswalk…
Fire chief announces retirement
By Angelica Ingram He started his career in the park and eventually worked his way up to become the first paid fire chief for the municipality of Dysart et al. Soon Miles Maughan will be…
New food bank open in Wilberforce
By Angelica Ingram A volunteer at the Wilberforce Food Bank pushes a red cart along two rows of shelves that stretch from floor to ceiling. The shelves are arranged with stacks of food just like…
Patterson subject of new book on cancer
By Angelica Ingram When Haliburton’s John Patterson was diagnosed with malignant melanoma he turned to his sister-in-law Alanna Mitchell for help. Patterson who has faced cancer once before was diagnosed just shy of six years…
Selbie honoured for work on mine disaster
By Jenn Watt Water its components and the life it sustains have been the passion of Haliburton’s Daniel Selbie for most of his adult life. Growing up surrounded by the lakes of the Highlands Selbie…
Buy a meal give a meal
By Jenn Watt SIRCH Community Kitchen volunteers have been cooking up meals for neighbours in need for years but now they’re offering that same nutritious homemade food to anyone who wants to buy it. Called…
Fish hatchery funding question back on table
By Chad Ingram It was a familiar discussion. Haliburton County councillors are torn on how to handle a grant request from the Haliburton Highlands Outdoors Association which operates the Haliburton fish hatchery. Members of the…
HHSS students take top spots at art show
By Jenn Watt Four local student artists where honoured at a recent art show in Bancroft. Ariel Weiss Naomi Russell Christina Stephen and Brynn Meyers were amongst the winners at this year’s Michal Manson Juried…
Man injured in snowmobile crash
Submitted by the OPP The Haliburton Highlands Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police is investigating a single snowmobile collision that occurred on Sunday close to 1:30 p.m. on Nomad Road in Dysart et al. The…
School board brings in mediator
By Angelica Ingram Following months of unsuccessful meetings the Trillium Lakelands District School Board has called in a mediator to assist with contract negotiations between the board and the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation Local…