OPP warn of phone scam hitting the Highlands By Elizabeth Bate It’s the “season of scams” according to OPP Sgt. Peter Leon and Highlands residents should be alert to one in particular circulating the area.…

By Elizabeth Bate Staff board members and community members for A Point in Time Centre for Children Youth and Parents came together to congratulate each other and celebrate another year at their annual general meeting…

TSW gets $285M boost $17 million designated for county’s dams and bridges By Angelica Blenich Barry Devolin says he doesn’t often use the word delighted but when he gets more than a quarter of a…

By Chad Ingram God will stay part of the inaugural ceremony for new Haliburton County councils. At least for now. As councillors on the county’s finance and correspondence committee reviewed the municipality’s procedural bylaw during…

March 18 2014 By Chad Ingram Haliburton County council cost taxpayers a little more than $100000 to operate for 2013. Members of the county’s finance and correspondence committee received council expenditures for last year during…

By Angelica Blenich

February 25 2014   ·   0 Comments By Jenn Watt Humble honest nature-loving – the traits associated with the late Lee Blair are grounded in the very earth he spent his life moving. Blair died at…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

By Darren Lum February 18 2014

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…

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…

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…