By Darren Lum It’s amazing what inspiration and a community effort can do towards ensuring everyone is warm this winter. Minden resident Tammy Warburton the Winter Coat and Clothing Drive organizer is small in stature …
Highlands Summer Festival announces 2016 season lineup
By Darren Lum There was raucus applause when the Highlands Summer Festival artistic producer Scot Denton announced this upcoming summer lineup of five performances to the packed crowd on Sunday at the McKeck’s restaurant in…
Changes for Hike Haliburton Festival
By Chad Ingram The county will make some tweaks to its signature event the Hike Haliburton Festival next year. Tourism director Amanda Virtanen presented members of the county’s tourism committee with a report on the…
Family health team will need to replace docs
By Chad Ingram The Haliburton Highlands Family Health Team will likely need to replace five doctors during the next two or so years. Algonquin Highlands Deputy-reeve Liz Danielsen who sits on Haliburton County medical professionals…
Man charged with spray painting area businesses
On Saturday Nov. 14 officers from the Haliburton Highlands OPP were dispatched to a mischief call at the Shoppers Drug Mart in the Village of Haliburton. A red can of spray paint was used to…
OPP tell motorists to slow down
By Darren Lum A frosty Tuesday morning last week left roads icy factoring in motor vehicle collisions in Haliburton County. OPP Constable Dianna Dauphinee said the police responded to five collisions between 8:30 a.m. and…
Paramedic chief seeks upstaffing at Tory Hill
By Chad Ingram The county’s paramedic chief would like to have night staff at the Tory Hill EMS base 365 days a year. Craig Jones made that request in a report on budget considerations reviewed…
Potential new tax could dampen real estate sales
By Jenn Watt 2015 was a strong year for the local housing market. Across Haliburton County sales were up about 14 per cent year to date with 25 per cent more cottage sales this year…
Santa Claus parade to bring colours of Christmas
By Angelica Ingram Marilyn and Jim Frost attended their first Haliburton Santa Claus parade in 1997. There was snow on the ground and a sense of community in the air. At the time the Frosts…
Searching for high-speed Internet
By Chad Ingram Haliburton County is still trying to get reliable high-speed Internet to residents who do not have it. County treasurer Laura Janke presented a report on Internet at municipal offices during a Nov.…
Water Ambassadors to send team of 12 to…
By Angelica Ingram Next February a team of seven high school students from Haliburton Highlands Secondary School and five adults will be heading to Nicaragua for seven days. The group of 12 will not be…
Council questions festival promoter requests rezoning application
P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } By Angelica Ingram A special meeting of Dysart councilheld on Nov. 10 brought forth lots of questions comments and a fewfireworks from councillors directed at John Teljeur and WolfgangSiebert regarding…
Festival of one-act plays delights
By Angelica Ingram An unexplained murder in a rural farm town a peculiar secretary with an uncanny strength and a loveless husband and wife stuck on a deserted country road. These were just some of…
Irondale bridge to be replaced
HE council first to sign Blue Dot campaign The following are brief reports of items discussed at the Nov. 9 meeting of Highlands East council. By Angelica Ingram Councillors in Highlands East are the first…
It’s in your drawer to give
By Darren Lum In just about everyone’s junk drawer there is a collection of AA batteries. Each one of those batteries contains enough zinc to potentially save the lives of six children who have a…
Local realtors show they care about Heat Bank
By Angelica Ingram Under the bright sunshine and warm fall air a group of local realtors gathered at Abbey Gardens on Nov. 3 to take a break from selling houses and roll up their sleeves…
Princess and Peewee come home
By Darren Lum When Heather Peddie was reunited with her “babies” she was overcome with relief after they went missing for more than a day while she was out of town last week. Upon returning…
Wilberforce Legion building upgrades celebrated
By Angelica Ingram More than a year ago members of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 624 put pen to paper and began filling out a grant application for the Ontario Trillium Foundation. On Nov. 8…
ETFO reaches deal high school teachers take strike…
By Angelica Ingram Elementary school teachers reached a tentative deal with the province announced on Monday Nov. 2. The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario issued a release advising its members to suspend strike action in…
Gratitude and remembrance on Nov. 11
By Jenn Watt Published Nov. 10 2015 (Update: Billy Pickard died Feb. 5 2018 in her 97th year. Friends are invited to call at the Legion in Haliburton on Saturday Feb. 24 2018 for a…
HHSS EQAO scores up
By Angelica Ingram Last week the Education Quality and Assessment Office (EQAO) released the annual results from standardized testing done across the province for Grade 9 students in math. The results compare Haliburton County schools…