April 7 2014 The Haliburton Echo was honoured with a first place finish for general excellence in its circulation category at the Ontario Community Newspaper Association awards gala in Vaughan on April 4. Sister paper…
Leveraging the power of the biggest generation
April 28 2014 By Jenn Watt CityTV founder and Canadian media mogul Moses Znaimer is best known for reimagining television and the audience’s role in creating the media. Now he’s pushing a new revolution of…
Mischief at the laundromat
Haliburton Highlands Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police are investigating mischief at the Parkside Laundromat in Haliburton on February 21 2014 between 5:30 – 10 p.m. Unknown persons entered the washroom in the Laundromat and…
Public weigh in on health care in Canada
By Angelica Blenich Many of those relying on health care in Haliburton County believe there needs to be more focus on front line staff and less on government bureaucracy. That was one of the many…
Public weighs in on Greens Mountain Plan
April 8 2014 · 0 Comments By Angelica Blenich An educational facility a site for astronomy observing nature or horseback riding. These are just some of the many ideas people have for what could be…
Schmale seeks Conservative candidacy
March 10 2014 · 0 Comments By Chad Ingram Jamie Schmale wants his boss’s job. Schmale chief of staff for MP Barry Devolin will toss his hat in the proverbial ring for the Conservative candidacy…
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By Darren Lum March 25 2014 Holden Truss Ltd owner Kirk Holden was almost at his Eagle Lake home Thursday afternoon when he received a call alerting him of the fire at his building. He…
Trip changes perspective on life
By Darren Lum February 18 2014
Update: Snowmobile fatality in Harcourt Park
March 23 2014 · Submitted by Haliburton Highlands OPP On Sunday March 23 at 6:50 a.m. Ontario Provincial Police officers from the Haliburton Highlands detachment responded to a snowmobile collision on Allen Lake in Dysart…
Loop Troupe hits the stage for library fundraiser
April 16 2014 By Angelica Blenich A lighthouse a rowboat a cellar a plumber and a daughter. These are just some of the things featured in the fun-filled evening Not Just Desserts. A joint initiative between the…
Family Health Team board adds Loucks to its…
Former Haliburton Highlands Health Services CEO Foster Loucks is thenewest appointment to the Family Health Team board of directorsoccupying the role of community representative. Loucks brings a lifetime of health experience to the table and…
Third Time is the charm
Haliburton resident Sue Shikaze bites her Boston Marathon medal aftercompleting her third last week in a personal best time. Although theHighlands runner is proud of shattering her personal best BostonMarathon time by 20 minutes she…
Beauty of birds revealed in upcoming show
April 23 2014 Dan Busby photographer and bird expert is showcasing his work like this common loon on Head Lake as part of his upcoming show Birds by Busby at the Rails End Gallery in…
Highlands Summer Festival staging Great Expectations
July 2 2014 The Highlands Summer Festival is staging the Charles Dickens’ classic novel Great Expectations.
Our capacity for creativity
July 2 2014 By Lynda Shadbolt I recently walked the Sculpture Forest over the at the college in the early morning and found myself contemplating our capacity as human beings for being creative. I am pretty…
Author asks readers to take a mystical adventure
June 23 2014 Local author and psychic Casandra Hart reads from her new book Adventures of a Mystic Medium at a private book launch at a local Haliburton home on June 16 2014. The book…
Haliburton home to creativity
May 13 2014 Sara Petroff of Toronto works with her piece during the encaustic painting course offered at the Fleming College Haliburton Campus as part of the Haliburton School of the Arts. Petroff was one…
Making beautiful music
May 6 2014 By Len Pizzey For three days last week the sounds of beautiful music made the Northern Lights Performing Arts Pavilion in Haliburton a joyous place to be. For the 18th year in a…
Musicians learn once a pianist always a pianist
May 6 2014 By Chad Ingram For many music is a lifelong love affair with the power to enrapture one again and again. Such is the case for three local women who comprised the adult piano…
Rousing success for Not Just Desserts
April 29 2014 By Darren Lum Highlands East came out to cheer the hero and jeer the villain at the Not Just Desserts event at the Lloyd Watson Memorial Centre in Wilberforce. Highlands East Council…
Largest show in Forest Fest history
April 22 2014 Singer/songwriter Bruce Cockburn will close out this year’s Forest Festival with a performance on Aug. 17 at Bone Lake Amphitheatre. With 31 albums under his belt Cockburn has won 13 Juno awards…