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Peterborough police car. (Photo: Peterborough Police Service)

Peterborough police continue search for missing 11-year-old Carter Ryan Pollock

Police are concerned for safety of boy, last seen Tuesday morning leaving Peterborough Regional Health Centre

kawarthaNOW - January 20, 2021

Ontario reports 1,913 new COVID-19 cases, including 16 in greater Kawarthas region

Shoppers line up outside Morello's Your Independent Grocer in Peterborough as the store controls capacity limits as required during the province-wide shutdown. Peterborough Public Health is urging residents to only leave their homes for essential reasons with January on track to see the most cases reported in a monthly period during the pandemic. (Photo: Bruce Head / kawarthaNOW.com)

Public health inspection ‘blitz’ of Peterborough grocery and big-box stores imminent

Eve Hewson, Tom Bateman, and Simona Brown are in a love triangle in the British psychological thriller Behind Her Eyes, based on the 2017 novel of the same name by Sarah Pinborough. The six-part series premieres on Netflix on February 17, 2021. (Photo: Netflix)

What’s new on Netflix Canada in February 2021

You can change a child's future by becoming a foster parent. The Kawartha-Haliburton Children's Aid Society is seeking to identify and train 10 new local foster families who will open their hearts and homes to children until they can be reunited with their biological families. (Photo courtesy of the Kawartha-Haliburton Children's Aid Society)

You can change the future of a child in the Kawarthas by fostering

Kawartha-Haliburton Children's Aid Society is urgently seeking 10 new foster families

Paula Kehoe - January 19, 2021

The 2021 ReFrame Film Festival is a panacea for pandemic boredom, offering nearly 50 feature-length and short documentary films streaming online between January 22 and 29, including local films such as Drew Hayden Taylor's "Cottagers & Indians", which explores the decades-long disagreement between Indigenous wild-rice harvester James Whetung and landowners on Pigeon Lake. Taylor will also be delivering a keynote address on the opening night of the festival on Friday, January 22. (Photo: Paul Kemp Productions)

Sarah’s top picks at the 2021 ReFrame Film Festival

Premier Doug Ford packing bottles of disinfectant into boxes during a tour of Charlotte Products in Peterborough on July 30, 2020. Charlotte Products has ramped up production of its cleaning products during the pandemic and is facing a shortage of bottles for its products. Along with a $1 million provincial investment, Peterborough's Merit Precision is investing $1.3 million for an expansion that will allow it to supply bottles to Charlotte Products. (Photo: Government of Ontario)

Ontario invests $1 million in Peterborough’s Merit Precision to manufacture bottles for hand sanitizers and disinfectants

The Nogojiwanong Indigenous Fringe Festival, the world's first fringe festival exclusive to Indigenous performers, will take place in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong on June 21, 2021 (National Indigenous Peoples Day). The outdoor festival will feature comedy, music, storytelling, and more. (Supplied photo)

The show must go on: world’s first Indigenous fringe festival comes to Peterborough this summer

A "temporarily closed" sign on a store window. (Stock photo)

Applications now open for Ontario Small Business Support Grant

Grant provides up to $20,000 for small businesses required to temporarily close or restrict services under the province-wide shutdown

kawarthaNOW - January 16, 2021

Nicole Myers-Mitchell is the inaugural general manager of The Grove Theatre, a new outdoor performance venue in Fenelon Falls in the City of Kawartha Lakes that is staging its first production in summer 2021. (Photo: Roseneath Theatre)

The Grove Theatre in Fenelon Falls hires Nicole Myers-Mitchell as its first general manager

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)

SIU has yet to interview the three officers who discharged their firearms in deadly Kawartha Lakes incident

A Buckhorn man, identified only by his first name Rob, with the deer he rescued after it had fallen through the ice on Lower Buckhorn Lake on January 14, 2021. After recovering, the deer returned to the woods. (Photo: Shelley Fine / Facebook)

Buckhorn man hailed as hero for saving a deer that had fallen through the ice

News & Community

Peterborough police continue search for missing 11-year-old Carter Ryan Pollock

kawarthaNOW - January 20, 2021

Police are concerned for safety of boy, last seen Tuesday morning leaving Peterborough Regional Health Centre.

Ontario reports 1,913 new COVID-19 cases, including 16 in greater Kawarthas region

January 19, 2021

Public health inspection ‘blitz’ of Peterborough grocery and big-box stores imminent

January 19, 2021

Lab analysis of a nasal swab for COVID-19. (Stock photo)

Ontario reports 2,578 new COVID-19 cases, including 21 in greater Kawarthas region

January 18, 2021

Centennial Place long-term care home in Millbrook. (Photo: Centennial Place / Facebook)

Ontario reports 3,422 new COVID-19 cases, including 12 in greater Kawarthas region

January 17, 2021

COVID-19 tests in a laboratory. (Stock photo)

Ontario reports 3,056 new COVID-19 cases, with 1 new death in Peterborough

January 16, 2021

Arts & Entertainment

What’s new on Netflix Canada in February 2021

kawarthaNOW - January 19, 2021

Featuring British psychological thriller series Behind Her Eyes, German sci-fi series Tribes of Europa, all seven seasons of Parks and Recreation, and more.

Sarah’s top picks at the 2021 ReFrame Film Festival

January 18, 2021

The show must go on: world’s first Indigenous fringe festival comes to Peterborough this summer

January 17, 2021

The Grove Theatre in Fenelon Falls hires Nicole Myers-Mitchell as its first general manager

January 16, 2021

klusterfork's Linda Kash (top left) during a six-week improv intensive series on Zoom this past summer, when a group of 10 students enjoyed live and interactive online classes from Canadian entertainment industry pros. Starting January 18, 2021, klusterfork is offering another round of workshops featuring industry pros including Lisa Merchant, Steve Ross, Michael Walters, Wendy Hopkins, Brent Haynes, and more. (Photo courtesy of klusterfork)

‘I tried klusterfork’s online improv workshops and here’s why you should too’

January 15, 2021

Water is a recurring motif in many films featured in ReFrame 2021. "The River Guards" is a U.S. documentary about a Massachusetts community on the Housatonic River where activists have been fighting for three decades against pollution from a GE plant. ReFrame 2021 will host a discussion featuring those activists and Peterborough activists also fighting against GE pollution. (Photo courtesy of ReFrame)

Local and global stories about water ‘a huge theme’ at this year’s ReFrame Film Festival

January 14, 2021

Business & Technology

Ontario invests $1 million in Peterborough’s Merit Precision to manufacture bottles for hand sanitizers and disinfectants

kawarthaNOW - January 18, 2021

Bottles will be used by Peterborough cleaning product company Charlotte Products to meet growing product demand.

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