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A mobile phone showing kawarthaNOW's Easter 2024 holiday hours beside a table holding a plate of Easter treats. (Photo: kawarthaNOW)

What’s open and closed on the 2024 Easter long weekend

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Holiday hours for 288 selected businesses, organizations, and services in Peterborough, Lindsay, Cobourg, Port Hope, and across the greater Kawarthas region.
A hand placing green waste in a wheelbarrow during spring cleaning of a yard. (Stock photo)

Peterborough yard waste collection resumes after the Easter long weekend

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Curbside pickup of leaf and yard waste takes place weekly on your regular collection day beginning April 2.
New signage was unveiled at Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) during a private event on March 26, 2024 to recognize a $1 million donation from local philanthropists Denise and Martin Pick (left and second from left). Also pictured are PRHC Foundation president and CEO Lesley Heighway, PRHC president and CEO Dr. Lynn Mikula, Denise and Martin's son Charles Pick and daughter-in-law Dr. Rardi Van Heest, and PRHC general surgeon Dr. Joslin Cheverie. (Photo courtesy of PRHC Foundation)

Local philanthropists Martin and Denise Pick donate $1 million to Peterborough Regional Health Care...

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Donation has allowed the hospital to invest in minimally invasive surgical tools and state-of-the-art diagnostic technology.
Peterborough mayor Jeff Leal, Janice Johnston on behalf of Peterborough-Kawartha MP Michelle Ferreri, Innovation Cluster executive director Camila Duarte, and BWXT Nuclear Energy Canada's Brett Jermyn at an announcement on March 26, 2024 of a strategic collaboration between the Innovation Cluster and BWXT Nuclear Energy Canada, which employs around 400 nuclear industry workers at its Peterborough location. (Photo courtesy of the Innovation Cluster)

Peterborough’s Innovation Cluster announces strategic collaboration with BWXT Nuclear Energy Canada

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Goals of collaboration include communicating the benefits of nuclear energy and boosting local employment in the nuclear industry.
Kristie Virgoe, Kawartha Conservation's director of stewardship and conservation lands, at Ken Reid Conservation Area. A certified forest therapy guide, Virgoe regularly leads forest therapy sessions at the 110-acre nature reserve north of Lindsay. (Photo via Conservation Ontario)

Kawartha Conservation urges public to report illegal activities at Ken Reid Conservation Area near...

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Recent violations of conservation area rules include dirt bikes using the trails and the starting of campfires.
An Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) police car with lights flashing. (Photo: OPP)

32-year-old Dunsford man dead in single-vehicle crash on County Road 36 near Lindsay

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Driver was pronounced dead at scene of Monday night collision just north of intersection with Settlers Road.
Peterborough police car. (Photo: Peterborough Police Service)

Peterborough police investigating after cat shot with arrow south of Millbrook

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Resident found their cat on a driveway Sunday afternoon and took it to a vet, where it had to be euthanized due to its injuries.
An 1874 engraving published in The Illustrated London News shows Irish emigrants preparing to leave the Queenstown port in County Cork, Ireland. Trent Valley Archives Theatre's inaugural production "Tide of Hope" follows the fortunes and misfortunes of David Nagle, an Irish land agent and rent collector forced to flee to Upper Canada in 1825 when Irish rebels fighting against English tyranny brand him a traitor. The play will be performed for the public on May 15 and 16, 2024 at Market Hall Performing Arts Centre. (Public domain image)

Second public performance added for Trent Valley Archives Theatre’s inaugural history play ‘Tide of...

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Fundraising play runs at Peterborough's Market Hall on May 15 and 16, with room still available for matinee performance for school groups on May 15.
A Kawartha Lakes police vehicle blocks access to Pigeon Lake Road east of Lindsay after a police shooting on November 26, 2020 that resulting in a 33-year-old suspect and an OPP officer being seriously injured. The suspect's one-year-old son was found fatally shot in the man's pickup truck. (Photo: CBC)

Charges dropped against OPP officers involved in 2020 Kawartha Lakes shooting that killed toddler

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In 2023, Ontario's police watchdog had charged three officers with manslaughter and criminal negligence causing death.
Computer scammer/hacker

Two Cobourg residents lose over $750,000 in online investment scams

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In one of the scams, AI was used to create a fake video of Elon Musk endorsing a non-existent investment company
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