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Kerry Griffin performs an unconventional kind of therapy on Mark Rostrup as Janet Van Der Graaff, Linda Kash, and Naomi Snieckus look on during klusterfork's "School's Out!" improv show at the Market Hall in July 2023. Griffin and Van Der Graaff are two of the improv professionals who will perform in klusterfork's "Impros vs. Joes" improv comedy show at the Gordon Best Theatre in downtown Peterborough on November 15, 2024, along with klusterfork's "Keep Me Up" improv workshop students. (Photo: Andy Carroll)

Hilarious improv returns to Peterborough’s Gordon Best Theatre with another edition of Impros vs. Joes

November 15 show sees seasoned improv professionals join klusterfork co-founders Linda Kash and Pat Maitland and their improv workshop students

Paul Rellinger - October 29, 2024

Applications for the Starter Company Growth Program, a provincially funded entreprenurial training and grant program for small businesses administered by the Business & Entrepreneurship Centre Northumberland (BECN), are open until November 22, 2024. Pictured is Beverley Shepherd, founder and owner of Verano Food Holdings and a previous Starter Company participant. (Photo: BECN / Facebook)

Small businesses in Northumberland County encouraged to apply for Starter Company Growth Program

Located in downtown Peterborough, Tiny Greens Plant Shop is a family-run oasis for plant lovers in Peterborough. As well as being stocked with both common and rare plants, decorative pots and planting kits, and growing supplies and accessories, the shop also has a planting studio where you can get creative on your own with a planting project, joining a guided workshop, or booking the studio for a group. To give back to the community, owner Tina Bromley has recently launched a customizable fundraising model to support local organizations in their initiatives. (Photo: Tiny Greens)

Know Your Locals: Peterborough’s Tiny Greens Plant Shop is a plant lover’s oasis

Five Counties Children's Centre CEO Scott Pepin and alumnus Nick Scarr, a huge Cobourg Cougars fan, during the puck drop before the inaugural Cougars for Kids game in 2023. Five Counties is teaming up with the Cougars again for the second annual Cougars for Kids game at the Cobourg Community Centre on November 16, 2024. Funds raised from the game will support treatment services for children and youth with special needs in Northumberland County. (Photo: Five Counties Children's Centre)

Community members can score for Five Counties Children’s Centre at Cobourg Cougars hockey game on November 16

Left to right, top and bottom: pianist David Jalbert is the guest artist at the Peterborough Symphony Orchestra's season-opening concert, Sarah McLachlan performs at the Peterborough Memorial Centre, Shipyard Kitchen Party presents an original music about the Great War, Murray McLauchlan performs at Port Hope's Capitol Theatre, Peterborough Pop Ensemble presents a concert featuring songs from the big band and swing era, and Globus Theatre presents its latest murder mystery dinner experience. (kawarthaNOW collage)

encoreNOW – October 28, 2024

Featuring the Peterborough Symphony Orchestra, Sarah McLachlan, Shipyard Kitchen Party, Murray McLauchlan, Peterborough Pop Ensemble, and Globus Theatre

Paul Rellinger - October 28, 2024

Peterborough's Dr. Madura Sundareswaran says keeping family doctors happy and choosing to remain practising in Peterborough is a key goal of the recently formed Peterborough Family Physician Think Tank. (Photo: Naomi Lucienne)

‘We should be equally committed to keeping family doctors in the community,’ says Peterborough doctor

A promotional photo from 4th Line Theatre for "Wild Irish Geese" written by and starring Peterborough's Megan Murphy (right) and directed by Kim Blackwell. The play, which tells the story of the impoverished Irish settlers who came to Peterborough in 1825 under an emigration plan administered by Upper Canada politician Peter Robinson, makes its world premiere at the Winslow Farm in Millbrook from July 29 to August 30, 2025. Earlier in July, 4th Line will also present the world premiere of "The Housekeeper" by Ian McLachlan and Robert Winslow, which is the fourth in a series of plays by McLachlan and Winslow about the Barnardo children. (Photo: Wayne Eardley / Brookside Studio)

Megan Murphy’s ‘highly anticipated’ play about Irish settlers in Peterborough debuts at 4th Line Theatre next summer

A committee of volunteers in Lindsay is organizing a fundraising event for A Place Called Home that features a dramatic reading of "A Christmas Carol" on December 4, 2024 at Cambridge Street United Church in Lindsay, using a script that was first developed by CBC Radio in 1990 for public readings across the country in support of shelters, food banks, libraries, and hospitals. (Graphic: CBC Radio)

Lindsay citizens to present a dramatic reading of ‘A Christmas Carol’ to tackle homelessness

Habitat for Humanity Peterborough and Kawartha Region (Habitat PKR) unveiled its new ReStore truck on October 25, 2024 during Waste Reduction Week. The truck, which was funded through a capital grant from the provincial government's Ontario Trillium Foundation, will allow the non-profit organization to collect more donated items to be sold in its three ReStores. Pictured from left to right are Habitat PKR's procurement manager Mario Zambonin, Habitat PKR board chair Hope Lee, Habitat PKR CEO Susan Zambonin, Ontario Trillium Foundation volunteer Klara Oyler, Peterborough-Kawartha MPP Dave Smith, and Habitat PKR communications and marketing manager Holly O'Conner. (Photo courtesy of Habitat PKR)

Habitat for Humanity Peterborough and Kawartha Region unveils new ReStore truck

Funded by an Ontario Trillium Foundation grant, the truck will increase Habitat's capacity to pick up donated items and keep them out of the landfill

kawarthaNOW - October 27, 2024

Community Care Peterborough is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Meals on Wheels program in Peterborough, which began on October 22, 1964 when the former Civic Hospital (now Peterborough Regional Health Centre) prepared seven meals a day that were delivered by volunteers from the Rotary Club of Peterborough. Today, the program provides more than 50,000 meals annually to seniors and adults with physical challenges across the city and county of Peterborough. (Photo: Community Care Peterborough)

‘Each delivery offers not just a meal but a friendly face, providing clients with essential social interaction’

18-year-old Logan was last seen in Havelock on October 13, 2024. (Family photo)

Autistic Havelock teen Logan still missing after two weeks

Filmmaker and Haliburton native Kate Campbell (in the brown jacket) will be in attendance at the 2024 Haliburton International Film Festival (HIFF) for a screening of her short film "Boundless" about women pilots during World War II and to share an update on her efforts to turn the short into a full-length film. Featuring seven feature films, HIFF runs at the Northern Lights Performing Arts Pavilion in Haliburton from November 1 to 3. (Photo: Samantha Falcon)

Watch films you can’t see anywhere else at the Haliburton International Film Festival

Community members can score for Five Counties Children’s Centre at Cobourg Cougars hockey game on November 16

Natalie Hamilton, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter - October 28, 2024

'Cougars For Kids' returns for second year with goal of supporting treatment services for Northumberland kids and youth with special needs.

‘We should be equally committed to keeping family doctors in the community,’ says Peterborough doctor

October 28, 2024

Lindsay citizens to present a dramatic reading of ‘A Christmas Carol’ to tackle homelessness

October 27, 2024

Habitat for Humanity Peterborough and Kawartha Region unveils new ReStore truck

October 27, 2024

‘Each delivery offers not just a meal but a friendly face, providing clients with essential social interaction’

October 27, 2024

Know Your Locals: Peterborough’s Tiny Greens Plant Shop is a plant lover’s oasis

Megan Gallant - October 29, 2024

Owner Tina Bromley offers everything you need to bring your space to life, a planting studio and workshops, and a new fundraising model to support community groups.

Well known in Peterborough for his community support, philanthropy, and tireless promotion of the arts, as well as his creative endeavours as a musician and writer, David Goyette launched Gallery Goyette in 2013 upon finding a new passion in abstract painting. The Lakefield artist is celebrating an eventful month in October 2024 as his work is being included in a fundraiser for the Art Gallery of Peterborough, his exhibition at the Bridgenorth Public Library has been extended, he has joined an international online art gallery, and he has received even more local accolades. (Photo: Victoria Pearce)

Know Your Locals: Lakefield’s David Goyette proves it’s never too late to find a new passion

October 10, 2024

Peterborough native Steve Nicholls is the managing partner at Billyard Insurance Group Peterborough, helping residents across Ontario find home, auto, travel, and business insurance within their budget. In the past three years, the small team has garnered nothing but five-star reviews for their attention to customer service and community-oriented approach. (Photo courtesy of Billyard Insurance Group Peterborough)

Know Your Locals: Steve Nicholls celebrates three years of Billyard Insurance Group Peterborough

October 8, 2024

Boardwalk Board Game Lounge on George Street welcoming trick-or-treaters and late-night shoppers to the second annual "Halloween in the Booro" event in 2023. Boardwalk Board Game Lounge is one of nearly 30 downtown Peterborough businesses that will be participating in the 2024 event from 5 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, October 26, organized by the Peterborough Downtown Business Improvement Area (DBIA). (Photo courtesy of Peterborough DBIA)

Spook-tacular family fun returns to downtown Peterborough October 26 with ‘Halloween in the Booro’

October 2, 2024

Grady's Feet Essentials owners Tony and Kelli Grady in 2012, cutting the ribbon during a grand opening of their former location in Peterborough's Lansdowne Place Mall following a major storefront renovation. Now located again in downtown Peterborough and celebrating 40 years in business, the couple reflects on the ups and downs of running their successful business. (Photo courtesy of Grady's Feet Essentials)

Grady’s Feet Essentials in Peterborough celebrates 40 years in business

October 1, 2024

Hilarious improv returns to Peterborough’s Gordon Best Theatre with another edition of Impros vs. Joes

Paul Rellinger - October 29, 2024

November 15 show sees seasoned improv professionals join klusterfork co-founders Linda Kash and Pat Maitland and their improv workshop students.

Megan Murphy’s ‘highly anticipated’ play about Irish settlers in Peterborough debuts at 4th Line Theatre next summer

October 28, 2024

Watch films you can’t see anywhere else at the Haliburton International Film Festival

October 26, 2024

For the second production in its 31st season, Public Energy Performing Arts is presenting the world premiere of "Out of Wounds," a contemporary Indigenous dance performance bymultidisciplinary artist and champion hoop dancer Sandra Lamouche that was inspired by her experience with and research into a sacred fungus. Lamouche will perform "Out of Wounds" at Nozhem First Peoples Performance Space at Trent University on November 1 and 2, 2024. (Photo: Lowell Yellowhorn)

‘I was like that broken tree that had grown medicine out of wounds’: Indigenous dancer Sandra Lamouche

October 25, 2024

Small businesses in Northumberland County encouraged to apply for Starter Company Growth Program

Natalie Hamilton, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter - October 29, 2024

Applications for BECN-administered entrepreneurial training and grant program open until November 22.

Sam Sayer and Owen Walsh, who run the Love you, Mean it restaurant in downtown Peterborough, are two of the 24 local entrepreneurs operating 21 businesses that are participating in Community Futures Peterborough's first intake of the provincially funded Starter Company Plus program. The not-for-profit organization, which is the new home of the Business Advisory Centre previously delivered by Peterborough & the Kawarthas Economic Development, announced the participants at a media event in the lobby of the Venture North building in downtown Peterborough on October 25, 2024. (Photo courtesy of Community Futures Peterborough)

21 local businesses to participate in Community Futures Peterborough’s revamped Starter Company Plus program

October 25, 2024

Beatrice Chan, the new program coordinator of the Net Zero Farms program, with one of her lambs from her farm in Selwyn Township where she farms sheep, cut flowers, meat chickens, and runs a flock of layers as well. She is looking forward to working with other local farmers in her new role as coordinator. (Photo: Bea Chan)

Peterborough GreenUP seeking farms to participate in second year of Net Zero Farms pilot project

October 24, 2024

In partnership with the Peterborough and Kawarthas Chamber of Commerce, Peterborough County is hosting a series of free roundtable discussions this fall in six communities around the county. The "Tourism Talks" series invites tourism operators and business owners servicing the visitor economy to share their thoughts about challenges, trends, and opportunities for tourism in the county. The discussions will lead to new tourism strategies as county assumes responsibility for economic development and tourism in 2025. (Graphic: Peterborough County)

Peterborough County tourism operators and business owners servicing the visitor economy invited to ‘Tourism Talks’

October 18, 2024

Small Business Week events in the Kawarthas region include the "The Modern Entrepreneur Experience" presented by Community Futures Peterborough and the Business Advisory Centre on October 23, 2024 at The El (P) in downtown Peterborough. Business Advisory Centre manager Rose Terry and business advisor Lindsey Irwin will each be leading workshops during the choose-your-own-adventure series, where entrepreneurs can register for one session or attend the entire half-day series. (Photo: Community Futures Peterborough)

What’s happening during Small Business Week in Peterborough and the Kawarthas

October 17, 2024

Putting our ‘all’ into Halloween makes for a more inclusive experience

Five Counties Children's Centre - October 25, 2024

There are many tricks we can use to make Halloween a treat for all children regardless of their age or ability.

From trick-or-treating to haunted walks and ghost tours to themed fundraisers, there are plenty of ways to celebrate Halloween in 2024 across the Kawarthas region, including viewing the spooky home displays at 4 Payne Crescent in Port Hope, which will again offer a Victorian witches tea display for the second year on Halloween night. (Photo courtesy of Laura Farmer)

Spook-tacular events to celebrate Halloween in the Kawarthas region

October 22, 2024

"Walktober" is an opportunity to spend time outside and encourage kids, students, families, and school communities to be active on the way to school. Kids who walk to school benefit from more quality time with friends, lower stress, and increased daily minutes of exercise. (Photo: Peter Rellinger)

‘Walktober’ is a great time to get kids walking to school: Peterborough GreenUP

October 17, 2024

Peterborough residents Michael and Norma Doran pose with their heat pump, which they installed in 2023. The Dorans worked with GreenUP's home energy team to evaluate their home's efficiency, and were able to take advantage of an incentive program to upgrade their home. You can learn more about heat pumps and other energy-saving solutions, incentive programs, and more at the Home Energy Expo on October 19, 2024 at the McDonnel St. Activity Centre in Peterborough. (Photo: Clara Blakelock / GreenUP)

Learn more about heat pumps at Peterborough GreenUP’s Home Energy Expo on October 19

October 10, 2024

For the fourth year, Burke's Barnyard, a four-acre farm northeast of Bancroft, will be hosting a family-friendly Halloween celebration from 1 to 7 p.m. on October 19, 2024 with trick-or-treating, themed décor, activities and games, a costume exchange, a vendor market, and more. The annual event collects non-perishable food items for the North Hastings Community Cupboard. (Photo: Burke's Barnyard / Facebook)

North Hastings community comes together for 4th annual family Halloween celebration at Burke’s Barnyard

October 9, 2024

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