By Sue Tiffin The following are brief reports of items discussed during a Jan. 12 meeting of the Haliburton County Public Library board. Kanopy, a streaming service which gives library members free access to movie…
Minden Hills Cultural Centre Foundation flexible in new…
By Stephen Petrick Fingers crossed, you might get a chance to raise a glass to the Minden Hills Cultural Centre Foundation this summer. The charitable arm of the popular cultural centre was gearing up to…
Minden River Cone owners plan ‘pure magic’ downtown
By Sue Tiffin A dead-end road could one day become the site of a bustling outdoor public skating rink next to the Gull River. Monica and Ben Scott, the owners of The Minden River Cone,…
HHSS students finding truth behind fiction
By Sue Tiffin While the books being read in Christine Carr’s Grade 9 English class are works of fiction, the topics and themes they introduce are leading the students to dig deeper and learn more…
Highlands Summer Festival returns to the stage
By Nick Bernard In 2020, the Highlands Summer Festival went dark alongside theatres across the world. Now, with pandemic restrictions lifting, the festival has announced that it will be returning for the 2022 season at…
Shindig goes live to warm homes
By Sue Tiffin Mark Nov. 8 at 10 a.m. on your calendars. Given that the annual Highlands Christmas Shindig has regularly been a sold-out show, tickets to this year’s live event at the Haliburton Legion,…
Frightening forest welcomes those who aren’t faint-hearted
By Sue Tiffin If a terrified trick-or-treater who dares to enter a haunted forest walk screams in the woods, does anybody hear them? Rachael Velkovski will be listening closely, delighted to frighten brave visitors to…
Photographer’s work showcased in book
By Darren Lum Photographer, instructor and lover of life, Glenn Springer was known for his passions. Springer, a prolific photographer and past contributor to the Haliburton Echo and Minden Times, captured life and appreciated the…
Halls Island Artist Residency opens door to 2022…
By Sue Tiffin A musical trio, a voice actor, a couple of writers, an actress, poets, book authors, visual artists and artists of varied disciplines have all found solace and hopefully some inspiration while taking…
Mortality explored in ongoing exhibition and upcoming workshops
Returning is a joint collaborative exhibition at the Agnes Jamieson Gallery which deals with mortality. The exhibition speaks to what many people are thinking of today - death. A global pandemic and mass extinction from…
Cultural Centre celebration invites trick-or-treaters to get into…
By Sue Tiffin While the Minden Hills Halloween event has always been a popular family outing, for the second year in a row the celebration will be held outdoors during the day at the Minden…
Razzamataz at a crossroads: help needed for the…
By Sue Tiffin For 35 years now, a few times throughout the year, a crowd of kids has entered through the doors of venues throughout the county prepared to form the audience taking in a…
Rich Hevesi carves wood into art
By Sue Tiffin Seven years ago, Rich Hevesi decided to get away from his desk job as a web developer and instead, picked up a chainsaw. Now, the full-time chainsaw carver and founder of Breakthru…
Hike Haliburton Festival was hike down memory lane
By Fred Groves With a distance of about 600 meters, the ‘River Runs Through It’, hike of this year’s Hike Haliburton Festival may have been one of the shortest, but it did not disappoint when…
Reflecting on what was and what will be
Cody Hodgson humbled by Hall of Fame induction By Grace OborneFormer NHL centreman, Cody Hodgson, still has a profound passion for the sport of hockey. Though he retired from the game early in his career,…
Tentrees returns to Minden in August
By Grace Oborne Gordie Tentrees is set out to perform at the Dominion Hotel, in Minden, on August 5.Tentrees has been a musician for about 15 years. He grew up in a family of writers…
Cultural centre waits for green light to reopen
By Grace Oborne Although the provincial Stage 3 reopening plan was official as of July 16, the Minden Hills Cultural Centre is still awaiting council approval to reopen. The staff at the cultural centre are…
Paths of creativity forged in Barnum Creek logo…
By Darren Lum Leaving an impression on the world is what many artists look to achieve.When Colleen Petric, a Grade 10 Haliburton Highlands Secondary School student from the Carnarvon area, was chosen by her teacher…
Meet Your Neighbours: Larry O’Connor connects with his…
By Sue Tiffin After becoming introduced to Indigenous beadwork, the first piece that Larry O'Connor beaded himself was a poppy, which he gave to his next door neighbour, a Legion member. “They say you should…
Band reflecting on latest album, eyeing next project
By Darren Lum Like the rugged terrain of the Highlands, the album The Mess We Made is a raw expression of local experimental punk band, The Bones of Jim Jones.Drawing on a period of life…
Wildcats will embrace Earth Day through songwriting workshop
By Darren Lum Archie Stouffer Elementary School students are being gifted an opportunity by local environment group Environment Haliburton (EH) to have their environmental consciousness raised with an artistic experience this coming Earth Day on…