By Sue Tiffin Each March, the annual U-Links Celebration of Research event fills a room with unadulterated excitement from a community joining to share in the research findings of the year.A collective hubbub created by…
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County vaccination clinics begin this month, new MoH…
By Sue Tiffin The following are brief reports from the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge district health unit press conference held virtually March 31 with acting medical officer of health Dr. Ian Gemmill. A mass vaccination…
Looking at locations for charging stations
By Chad Ingram The County of Haliburton and its four, lower-tier townships are considering funding applications and locations for electric vehicle charging stations.County council received a report from climate change co-ordinator Korey McKay during a…
HE council welcomes Bell plans for communication tower
By Darren Lum The following are Highlands East news briefs from the March 23 council meeting. A Bell Canada telecommunications tower proposal is bringing hope for greater connectivity to Wilberforce and surrounding areas.From its coverage…
Trial set for Hart, preliminary hearing ongoing for…
By Sue Tiffin Two men charged with second-degree murder in separate occurrences that happened weeks apart in 2019 both made court appearances last month.Norman Hart’s last court appearance was on March 26 this year, and…
Vaccination clinic provides relief to elders: ‘overwhelmed and…
By Sue Tiffin In just eight days, over about 40 hours, a team of people made up of physicians, nurses, paramedics, administrators, roads crew, volunteers and spouses of those team members vaccinated 1,946 people in…
Grade 5/6 ASES class and Bus #20 required…
By Sue Tiffin Archie Stouffer Elementary School students in a Grade 5/6 class have been identified as close contacts of a person who has tested positive for COVID-19.An April 2 email to families in the…
Haliburton business pays for upgrades to OPP ‘soft…
By Mike Baker Haliburton business ACM Designs has pledged more than $15,000 to renovate an “important space” at the Haliburton Highlands OPP detachment.As a former police officer Andria Cowan Molyneaux knows all too well the…
The Highlands’ ‘liquid gold’ fuels a passion for…
By Darren Lum There’s a certain romantic quality to the experience behind the traditional way of maple syrup production.It includes tromping through the woods with snowshoes, hanging the buckets and inserting the spiles in trees,…
HHHS responds to vaccination clinic questions from public
By Darren Lum An emailed response from Haliburton Highlands Health Services president and CEO Carolyn Plummer is helping shed light on decisions related to vaccination roll out across Haliburton County.Several readers contacted the Echo about…
Firefighters brought up to speed with new ice…
By Mike Baker Firefighters from Dysart et al and Highlands East are now better equipped for ice and water rescues after participating in a day-long training event on March 20.In what was a collaborative approach…
Province-wide, four-week ’emergency brake’ begins Saturday
By Sue TiffinLocal Journalism Initiative Reporter A day after Ontario saw the highest number of people with COVID-19 related critical illness admitted to intensive care units [ICUs] of the pandemic, and a day before the…
Leopoldina Dobrzensky remembered as steward of land and…
By Sue TiffinLocal Journalism Initiative Reporter A decade or so ago, Leopoldina Dobrzensky told Julia Robertson that she had found a timber signed by Robertson's grandmother in her farmhouse. The farmhouse Dobrzensky lived in had…
HHHS responds to vaccination clinic questions from public
By Darren Lum An emailed response from Haliburton Highlands Health Services president and CEO Carolyn Plummer is helping shed light on decisions related to vaccination roll out across Haliburton County Several readers contacted the Echo…
It’s time for it to disappear
I had to give my head a shake this past Friday afternoon when, with everything else that’s happening in the world today, the Ontario government still found time to roll out its 2021 Sunshine List.Released…
Vaccination clinic cut short at arena
By Sue Tiffin, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The A. J. LaRue arena was announced on March 18 as the last of six vaccination clinics in the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge district health unit, first in…
Rogers successful bidder on EORN project
By Chad Ingram Rogers Communications is the successful bidder on the contract for the Eastern Ontario Regional Network’s cell gap project, with some work on the massive project, now valued at more than $300 million,…
Vaccination clinics underway in Haliburton County
By Darren Lum Standing outside the Haliburton Highlands Health Services vaccination hub located at the Pinesetone Resort and Conference Centre in Haliburton on Thursday, March 18, Kelly Lawr was readying herself to join the line…
Parent council launches petition to maintain Learn@Home program
By Mike Baker, Local Journalism Initiative A group of parents throughout the school district region were dismayed to learn last week that the Learn@Home program likely won’t be returning to Trillium Lakelands District School Board…
Highland Wood COVID-19 outbreak resolved
The Highland Wood COVID-19 outbreak has been declared over.The outbreak status was declared March 16, 2021 when two staff members received positive results from surveillance testing.The staff members who received positive test results were re-swabbed…
Record winter for Highlands Nordic ski club
By Darren Lum The 2020 – 2021 season was a record year in terms of conditions and for the amount of visitors and paid season holders said the Haliburton Highlands Nordic Trail and Ski Club…