By Mike Baker 2020 was a tough year for Haliburton’s Rails End Gallery and Arts Centre.Located on York Street, inside the community’s landmark rail station, the gallery promotes Canadian art, crafts and music created by…
Community effort brightens sombre festive season
By Darren Lum The Haliburton Highlands Secondary School Interact Team members helped to orchestrate a positive tone in 2020 during the pandemic with its club’s Holiday Shoebox Event.The idea behind the Shoebox collection, which started…
HHHS Foundation receives $92,000 grant from Canadian Medical…
By Mike Baker Haliburton Highlands Health Services Foundation has secured some additional funding to help support frontline workers during this second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.Announced back in December, the organization received $92,000 from the…
Ontario initiates provincewide lockdown, taking effect Dec. 26
By Mike Baker The Ontario government is introducing a new province-wide lockdown in response to escalating cases of COVID-19.During the announcement on Monday, Dec. 21, Premier Doug Ford said a 28-day lockdown would begin in…
Danielsen secures warden seat for third straight term
By Chad Ingram Algonquin Highlands Deputy Mayor Liz Danielsen will again serve as Haliburton County warden after a tie vote by county councillors between Danielsen and contender Minden Hills Mayor Brent Devolin during the county…
Health unit advising people ‘stay safe and stay…
By Sue Tiffin “Home for the holidays” is a saying with extra meaning in 2020, according to the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District acting medical officer of health, Dr. Ian Gemmill.“With COVID-19 cases circulating and…
Delancey Sports, a small slice of the Big…
By Mike Baker There’s almost always a story behind a name, and as it turns out Haliburton’s newest downtown business has a pretty neat one.Delancey Sports opened to the public on Friday, Dec. 11. The…
Dysart council stands firm during talks on ‘dangerous’…
By Mike Baker Dysart et al council has held off on making any changes to the intersection at Kennisis Lake Road and Watts Road, which has been described as “problematic” and “dangerous” by some area…
Red Hawks alum joins Dalhousie Tigers
By Darren Lum When former Red Hawks volleyball standout Natalya Gimon made the Dalhousie Tigers volleyball team earlier this year it was a dream come true.The second-year health promotion student said it felt a little…
Reviewing physician recruitment program
By Chad Ingram Haliburton County councillors discussed a number of potential changes to the county’s physician recruitment program during a Dec. 16 meeting.The county has a recruitment committee and a physician recruitment co-ordinator in the…
Field Hooky collaboration celebrates childhood, nature
By Sue Tiffin Readers familiar with seeing Deborah J. Reed and Janet Trull’s names and written work in the Haliburton County Echo and County Life will now see their names on a colourful collaboration: a…
Creative form of winter golfing comes to Haliburton
By Darren Lum Getting to golf this winter is as easy as pressing a few keys said golf pro Andy MacMillan, owner of the Haliburton Golf Centre.Working out of the Pinestone Resort and Conference Centre…
Finding the threads that binds us all
By Darren Lum Earlier this month, students at the Cardiff Elementary School and Wilberforce Elementary School learned about the important role nature plays during the year for Indigenous people, particularly during the holiday season.Led by…
COVID-19 deals blow to Haliburton Forest’s Poker Run
By Darren Lum COVID-19 has delivered a fatal blow to what would have been the 30th annual Poker Run, traditionally hosted by the Haliburton Forest and Wildlife Reserve every February.With rising cases of the coronavirus…
One child’s gesture, sows seed of generosity
By Darren Lum An eight-year-old’s selfless gesture is teaching a lesson in how a little can go a long way.When Oliver Williams of Haliburton found $5 outside the A.J. LaRue Arena on Saturday, Dec. 5…
Privacy a concern for local health unit when…
By Sue Tiffin With each update of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the area from the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District health unit, comments from the public regarding their questions and concerns – namely, why…
Highland Pharmacy robbed at gunpoint
By Sue Tiffin Haliburton Highlands OPP are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at Highland Pharmacy on Dec. 9. At approximately 6 p.m. that evening, officers responded to the robbery at the business, which is…
Don Smith remembered for love of nature, land,…
By Sue Tiffin A few minutes into a video of an interview Don Smith participated in as part of a Haliburton Highlands Land Trust storytelling series last year, he pauses, cranes his neck behind and…
Ministry investigating North Shore Road blast
By Mike Baker An incident that occurred back on Dec. 2 that has some area residents believed could have been an earthquake or home explosion turned out to be a “blast gone wrong” at the…
The Noble Barber wants new shop to become…
By Mike Baker While he wasn’t born or raised in the Haliburton area, Nick Folco still considers his most recent return to the region to be something of a homecoming. Launching the downtown area’s newest…
Province announces $350K in new tourism funding
By Sue Tiffin Much-anticipated provincial funding to support the tourism region that includes the Haliburton Highlands was announced last Monday, Dec. 7, with $350,000 awarded to Ontario’s Highlands Tourism Organization to help offer relief to…