By Jenn Watt Last Friday marked the 30th anniversary of the deaths of 14 women at École Polytechnique in Montreal during the deadliest mass shooting in Canada’s history. It’s a date frequently described as a…

By Jenn Watt It’s how numbers are presented that make them useful or misleading to an audience. Is the glass 50 per cent full or 50 per cent empty? Or in Haliburton County are we…

By Jenn Watt Published Nov. 26 2019 Community centres and public institutions are frequently packed with civic-minded folks when municipal all-candidates meetings are hosted in Haliburton County. People come out en masse to hear from…

Sometimes stories take you to interesting places reaching people you never anticipated and taking turns that are pleasantly unexpected. Such was the case with a story we published on Private Benjamin Bird a Haliburton man…

By Jenn Watt One cannot help but feel great pride and simultaneously great sorrow when thinking of the Canadian liberation of Holland and the horrific conditions the Dutch lived under leading up to May 5…

By Jenn Watt Most of us have a list in the back of our minds of things we would like to do in our lives: learning a new skill travelling to far off places or…

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By Jenn Watt Published Oct. 15 2019 Unlike the leaders’ debates which are so aggressive and partisan that many people avoid them or change the channel in frustration the local candidates’ meeting last week was…

By Sue Tiffin Last week we published a story about Barb Thibault who was planning on attending the March of Dimes 2019 Aphasia Camp at Camp Wanakita this past weekend. Barb would be one of…

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By Jenn Watt Phyllis Webstad was six years old when she first attended St. Joseph’s residential school in Williams Lake B.C. Excited for her first day, she proudly wore a new shiny orange shirt with…

By Jenn Watt Published Sept. 17 2019 It’s that time again; election signs are sprouting up on lawns your friends are posting Facebook memes about the shocking behaviour of party leader so-and-so and you’ve got…

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By Sue Tiffin A joke that people share about garlic goes like this: “I see recipes calling for one clove of garlic. One clove of garlic is not enough for any recipe unless it’s a…

By Jenn Watt Published Aug. 6 2019 We learned this week that food bank usage across the county is for the most part predictable fluctuating with the seasons and as families move in or out…

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By Jenn Watt Published July 23 2019 We had a summer reporter a few years ago with a penchant for the beach. After work and on most weekends she would pack her towel into her…

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By Vanessa Balintec My grandma was the first person within my family to make it to Canada. After being a Catholic elementary school teacher in the Philippines during her young adult life she got sponsored…