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Dan Fewings and Jimmy Bowskill in 2014. Bowskill, who has recently been performing with The Sheepdogs and Blue Rodeo, will be coming to The Garnet in downtown Peterborough on Sunday, March 10th for two shows as part of the Peterborough Winter Folk Festival. Dan Fewings will opening both shows. (Photo: Wayne Eardley)

Peterborough Winter Folk Festival returns for its fifth year March 5 to 13

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Featuring Mother Mother, Too Many Zooz, Dylan Ireland, B.A. Johnston, Ben Rough, My Son The Hurricane, Jimmy Bowskill, Kate Suhr and Melissa Payne, and more.
Peterborough country musician Dean James is performing at the Pie Eyed Monk Brewery in Lindsay, with special guests Jesse Adam and Cameron Von, on Saturday, February 16. (Publicity photo)

nightlifeNOW – February 14 to 20

Former Prairie Oyster frontman Russell deCarle performs with his band (Steve Briggs, John Dymond, John Sheard) at Market Hall Performing Arts Centre on February 23, 2019. (Publicity photo)

Life is good for former Prairie Oyster frontman Russell deCarle

In "Copper Promises: Hinemihi Haka", Australian dance artist Victoria Hunt interweaves her experience of reconnecting with her Maori heritage with the story of Hinemihi, an ancestral Maori meeting house that was relocated from its New Zealand home to England in the 19th century. (Photo: Heidrun Lohr)

Australian dance artist Victoria Hunt explores her Maori heritage in ‘Copper...

Sophie Kourtsidis as Jill, Dylan Robichaud as Byron, Colette Marshall Schroter as Daphne, and Collin Dusome as Alex in Lindsay Little Theatre's production of "Skin Flick", Norm Foster's comedy about the porn industry, which runs from February 8 to 16, 2019 in Lindsay. (Photo: Sam Tweedle / kawarthaNOW.com)

February gets hot and steamy at Lindsay Little Theatre with ‘Skin...

Presented by Red Events and hosted at Bonnie View Inn on Lake Kashawigamog in Haliburton County on February 9 and 10, 2019, Ice Cube Gallery features three ice huts housing the work of four local artists along with local food, music, and more. (Photo: Ice Cube Gallery / Facebook)

Unique event transforms ice huts into pop-up art gallery

Business & Technology

Peterborough mayor Diane Therrien (middle) cuts the ribbon for the official opening of the renovated Jo Anne's Place health food store at 1260 Lansdowne Street West in Peterborough. Also pictured (left to right) are city councillors Kim Zippel and Lesley Parnell and Jo Anne's Place owners Margo and Paul Hudson. (Photo: Jeannine Taylor / kawarthaNOW.com)

businessNOW – February 11, 2019

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Featuring Jo Anne's Place, Charlotte Products Ltd., Canadian Canoe Museum, Bobcaygeon Brewing Company, Locavorest, and more.
A customer picking up her order from Locavorest, an online farmers' market carrying items from local producers. The founders announced on February 11 that the business would be closing its virtual doors as of February 28, 2019. (Photo courtesy of Innovation Cluster)

Peterborough online farmers’ market Locavorest is shutting down

Bobcaygeon Brewing Company has acquired Peterborough micobrewery Beard Free Brewing and will convert it into an "innovation lab" in spring 2019. (Photo: Bobcaygeon Brewing Company)

Beard Free Brewing in Peterborough acquired by Bobcaygeon Brewing Company

Nominations are now open for the Women's Business Network of Peterborough's (WBN) Judy Heffernan Award for a female entrepreneur, mentor, or student. The award honours the memory of the late Judy Heffernan, a long-time member of WBN and former general manager of the Peterborough Community Futures Development Corporation. Nominations are also open for the WBN's Women In Business Award. Both awards will be presented on April 9, 2019. (Photo: Christina Robertson)

businessNOW – February 4, 2019

The property housing the Black Horse Pub at 452 George St. N. in downtown Peterborough is one of 411 properties that the City of Peterborough's heritage resources coordinator is recommending be added to the city's heritage register. Owners of properites on the register must wait at least 60 days after applying for a demolition permit to allow city council to determine whether the property should receve a heritage designation, preventing demolition, City council will vote on the resolution on January 28, 2019. (Photo: National Trust for Canada)

businessNOW – January 28, 2019

Catia Skinner, chair of the 2019 Bears' Lair Entrepreneurial Competition steering committee, announcing the details of the Bears' Lair Entrepreneurial Competition in the lobby at VentureNorth in downtown Peterborough on January 22, 2019. Unlike previous years, this year's competition will include a cash-only prize of $8,000 for each of the two winners, and $1,000 for four runners-up. The application deadline for the 2019 competition is February 26th. (Photo: Paula Kehoe)

Applications now open for the 9th annual Bears’ Lair Entrepreneurial Competition

Lifestyle & Family

Peterborough parenting author and speaker Ann Douglas with a copy of her latest book, "Happy Parents Happy Kids", published by HarperCollins Canada and available on February 19, 2019. (Photo courtesy of Ann Douglas)

Parenting in an age of anxiety

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Instead of judging parents, let's support them by nurturing all the children in our communities.
GreenUP's Sustainable Urban Neighbourhoods (SUN) program is looking at ways to make the Kawartha Heights and East City-Curtis Creek neighbourhoods in Peterborough more sustainable. Here, students from James Strath Public School install a garden in the Kawartha Heights neighbourhood, as part of the planting phase of the SUN program. (Photo courtesy of GreenUP)

Peterborough is planning for a sustainable future, one neighbourhood at a...

Co-founder of the Society of Beer Drinking Ladies in Toronto, Ren Navarro is a champion of diversity in Ontario's craft beer industry. She will be speaking at "Beer Diversity", an event hosted by The Electric City Brigade of Beer Betches and sponsored by Publican House, on February 17, 2019 at Peterborough Square. (Photo courtesy of Ren Navarro)

KNosh News – February 2019

Free Family Day activities in Cobourg include skating at the Rotary Harbourfront Outdoor Skating Rink with a live DJ from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. There are also other outdoor and indoor activities planned in Cobourg, with additional activities offered in Port Hope on February 18, 2019. (Photo courtesy of the Town of Cobourg)

Lots of Family Day fun available in Northumberland County

A pair of snowshoes at Westwind Inn on the shores of Lower Buckhorn Lake, an ideal destination for a romantic getaway, some winter fun, or maybe a bit of both. You can also rent private cottages at Beachwood Resort or Catalina Bay Resort, visit Gallery on The Lake, Whetung Ojibwa Centre, and Kawartha Country Wines, eat at Lock Stop Cafe or Pizza Alloro, and more. (Photo courtesy of Westwind Inn)

Experience a Canadian winter getaway in Buckhorn

Manon Gagnon of Atelier Frankie is a felt and fibre artist who creates whimsical works of art like these mushrooms. She is one of more than 40 local artisans whose handmade products and crafts are available at the GreenUP Store at 378 Aylmer Street North in downtown Peterborough. (Photo: Manon Gagnon)

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