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For Small Business Week 2026, the Innovation Cluster is opening its downtown Peterborough workspace to local entrepreneurs, professionals, and small business owners for a free day of coworking on Wednesday, October 21. Participants can use hot desks, high-top tables, and shared work areas, with coffee and light snacks provided, while learning more about the Innovation Cluster’s workspace and membership options. (Photo: Bryan Reid for Innovation Cluster)

Small Business Week brings workshops, networking, and celebrations to Peterborough and the Kawarthas

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Events from October 19 to 25 offer entrepreneurs opportunities to learn about AI, succession planning, marketing, finances, and business growth.
Peterborough mayor Jeff Leal presents a certificate of recognition of five years of family ownership from the City of Peterborough to The Venue owners April Sendel (left) and Kevin Sendel (second from right) and general manager Tiffany Daskewich (right) during a celebration at the downtown Peterborough event space on October 13, 2026. (Photo: Joshua Gillis)

The Venue in downtown Peterborough celebrates five years of family ownership

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Local event and catering professionals Kevin and April Sendel purchased the event space in 2021 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic
Colin McMahon has been appointed the new executive director of the Kawartha Youth Orchestra (KYO). Pictured at the KYO's home at the New Canadians Centre, McMahon has served as program manager and artistic director of Upbeat!, KYO's subsidized after-school music education program, for the past three years. (Photo: Samantha Haggstrom / KYO)

Kawartha Youth Orchestra appoints Colin McMahon as executive director

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Longtime Upbeat! program leader takes on new role as Peterborough-based non-profit organization begins its new 2026-27 season of music education for young people.
Slow Leaves, the project of award-winning Winnipeg folk and psych-rock singer-songwriter and guitarist Grant Davidson, performs at the Black Horse in downtown Peterborough on Wednesday night (October 21, 2026) with Peterborough's own Matthew Holtby opening. (Photo: Matt Horseman)

nightlifeNOW – October 15 to 21

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Featuring live music listings at pubs and restaurants in Peterborough and the greater Kawarthas region.
One of the region's largest suppliers and processors of steel, aluminum, brass, and plastic materials, Kawartha Metals Corp. in Peterborough is receiving $500,000 from the federal government toward a $1-million project to expand its advanced steel-processing capabilities through specialized equipment. The company is one of 10 in Eastern Ontario receiving a total of nearly $6.6 million from the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario) to modernize operations, strengthen competitiveness, and expand products and services. (Photo: Kawartha Metals Corp.)

Five businesses in the Kawarthas region receive more than $2.5 million in federal funding

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Companies in Peterborough, Cobourg, and Woodville are among 10 Eastern Ontario businesses sharing nearly $6.6 million from FedDev Ontario to modernize and expand.
Peterborough-Kawartha MPP Dave Smith joined Community Care Peterborough staff and Senior Connector volunteers at the non-profit organization's office on October 14, 2026 to celebrate the launch of the next phase of the Senior Connector program, which trains older adult volunteers to help other seniors find trusted information, ask questions, identify next steps, and connect with local programs and services. The expansion of the pilot program is made possible with $24,500 in funding through Ontario's Seniors Community Grant Program. (Photo: Community Care Peterborough)

Community Care Peterborough expands Senior Connector program with $24,500 provincial grant

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Peer-based program trains older adult volunteers to help seniors find trusted information, navigate services, and connect with community supports.
Peterborough County warden Bonnie Clark, Ukraine's ambassador to Canada Andrii Plakhotniuk, and Drohobych mayor Taras Kuchma plant a commemorative white birch representing friendship and cooperation outside the Peterborough County Courthouse on October 14, 2026 following the signing of a twinning agreement between Peterborough County and the western Ukraine municipality, which includes the cities of Drohobych and Stebnyk along with 32 villages. (Photo: Peterborough County)

Peterborough County signs twinning agreement with Ukrainian municipality of Drohobych

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Partnership with western Ukraine community will focus on economic development, agriculture, tourism, education, healthcare, culture, and municipal cooperation.
Jeff Menzies and Bill Harris of Kawartha Ethanol with Michael Skinner and Jamie Mason of Miranda Water Technologies at Kawartha Ethanol's Havelock facility during an industrial wastewater treatment pilot using Miranda's MC200 Miracell Rotating Biological Contactor (RBC) system, which removed more than 98 per cent of targeted contaminants under tested operating conditions. (Photo courtesy of Miranda Water Technologies)

Kawartha Ethanol in Havelock to buy Miranda Water Technologies system after successful wastewater pilot

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Pilot at the ethanol and alcohol production facility removed more than 98 per cent of targeted contaminants under tested operating conditions.
Kawartha Lakes Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are seeking to identify this man in connection with an unprovoked assault in Fenelon Falls on October 10, 2026. (Police-supplied photo)

Police seeking public’s help to identify man in connection with unprovoked assault in Fenelon...

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Victim on Francis Street in Fenelon Falls was punched in the face Saturday evening.
A video provided by a group claiming to be Palestine Action Canada showing red paint being splattered on the entrance to GeoSpectrum Technologies Inc. on Whittington Drive in Peterborough in the early morning hours of October 12, 2026. (kawarthaNOW screenshot)

Police investigating vandalism at Peterborough defence technology company GeoSpectrum Technologies as hate/bias crime

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A group claiming to be Palestine Action Canada said it is responsible for damage at Whittington Drive business owned by Israel-based defence company Elbit Systems.
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