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    • Now known as the Kawartha Lakes Museum and Archives, the Old Gaol Museum was opened in 2011 in the former Victoria County Jail at 50 Victoria Avenue North in Lindsay. (Photo: City of Kawartha Lakes)

      Lindsay’s historic Old Gaol building is getting a facelift

      Since joining TerraCycle's free writing instrument recycling program at Staples in October 2024, Clean Up Peterborough has diverted 1,476 pens, markers, highlighters, and mechanical pencils from the landfill, and has issued a county-wide challenge to collect 50,000 used writing instruments that will be repurposed into raw material for new products. (Photo: Steve Paul / Clean Up Peterborough)

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      In partnership with The Classy Closet by Sue and FriendLilyShop, Community Care Peterborough is hosting its second annual fashion show at the Lakefield Legion on May 24, 2025, with proceeds supporting Community Care's programs for Lakefield seniors and adults with physical challenges. (Photo: The Classy Closet by Sue / Facebook)

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    • Juno and Maple Blues award-winning Toronto blues guitarist Paul James is performing with his band at the Ganaraska Hotel in Port Hope on Friday night. (kawarthaNOW screenshot of Paul James Band video)

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      AbZolutely Choir Peterborough-Kawartha artistic director and founder Abby Zolz (right) leads the choir in a performance with purpose during their 2024 year-end concert, which was a fundraiser for One City Peterborough. The group has chosen GreenUP to benefit from their 2025 year-end concert happening Monday, May 26 at Murray Street Baptist Church in Peterborough. (Photo: Ian MacCready)

      AbZolutely Choir singing for sustainability in Peterborough at May 26 concert

      In the world premiere of "The Housekeeper" at 4th Line Theatre from July 1 to 19, 2025, Eleanor Gwyn (Julia Scaringi) is a mysterious woman who arrives in Millbrook in 1955 looking for a job and becomes the housekeeper for widower Walter White (Jay Davis). Gwyn is hoping to make a fresh start in life and to find a place to call home, but is Millbrook ready for her and her progressive world views? Featuring a cast of 22 professional and volunteer actors/musicians, "The Housekeeper" is the fourth in a series of acclaimed plays by Ian McLachlan and Robert Winslow about the Barnardo children and their impact on Canadian culture and history. (Photos courtesy of 4th Line Theatre)

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      Whiskey Jack in 1977, featuring Duncan Fremlin, Mac Pulling, Rocky Hill, and Peterborough's own John Hoffman. Hoffman, who co-founded the band with Fremlin, will join Whiskey Jack for a few numbers at Peterborough's Air Force Association Hall on June 8, 2025 during the "CBC TV Country Music Stars" show, which also features Donna Ramsay and LeRoy Anderson, who spent 17 years performing weekly on CBC's "The Tommy Hunter Show". (Photo courtesy of Duncan Fremlin)

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      encoreNOW for May 19, 2025 features (from left to right, top and bottom) Skydiggers at Peterborough's Market Hall, Peterborough Symphony Orchestra at Emmanuel United Church, O Canada! benefit concert at Lindsay's Academy Theatre, Trent Valley Archives Theatre's "Crossing Over" at Peterborough's Market Hall, Globus Theatre's "Desperate to be Doris" in Bobcaygeon, and Kyle Golemba's "Handsome but Charmless" at Port Hope's Capitol Theatre. (kawarthaNOW collage)

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    • A sold-out crowd of 200 people attended the Peterborough and Kawarthas Chamber of Commerce's inaugural Luminary Awards celebration at the Great Hall of Trent University's Champlain College on May 8, 2025, which saw awards in five categories that recognize women at all stages of their careers presented to Sheena Howard, Jenisha Sanjit Arora, Rachel Stark, Tiffany Arcari, and Jeannine Taylor. (Photo: Jordan Lyall Photography)

      Five Peterborough-area women in business honoured at inaugural Luminary Awards celebration

      Darryl Breadner has sold 4 Aces Auto Centre, the auto repair company at 485 Parkhill Road East in Peterborough he founded over 20 years ago, to The Mufflerman Inc. According to a media release from The Mufflerman, Breadner and all existing employees will remain with the business, and 4 Aces will continue to operate as an independent auto mechanical garage within The Mufflerman Group. (Photo: 4 Aces Auto Centre)

      4 Aces Auto Centre in Peterborough acquired by The Mufflerman

      Sky Haven Equestrian Centre & Retreat in Bethany is one of the tourism-related businesses in Kawarthas Northumberland that has taken advantage of the Acceler8 personalized business mentorship program from Regional Tourism Organization 8 (RTO8). Refreshed for 2025, the program is now accepting applications in advance of the upcoming tourism season. (Photo: Sky Haven Equestrian Centre & Retreat)

      Tourism operators in Kawarthas Northumberland can apply for Regional Tourism Organization…

      Andrew Nokes, founder of Creativity by Code and ReziLink, shakes hands with Eduard Yonathan, founder of SanoStrategy. Both tech entrepreneurs are clients of the Innovation Cluster, which serves early-stage small and medium-sized businesses in the cleantech, agritech, health and medical tech, nuclear, and digital tech sectors. (Photo: Bryan Reid for Innovation Cluster

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      Light post banners on Hunter Street East in Peterborough's East City installed by the volunteer-led East City Village Business Improvement Area, which is merging with the Peterborough Downtown Business Improvement Area as part of a one-year pilot agreement. (Photo: Bruce Head / kawarthaNOW)

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    • Families attending Five Counties Children's Centre's 'Ready for School' event in Cobourg in August 2024 prepare to board a school bus to see what the ride entails. Offering supports for children who may face greater challenges due to physical, developmental, or communication needs, the events are returning in Peterborough, Cobourg, and Lindsay in spring 2025 to provide families with even more time to prepare. (Photo: Five Counties)

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      The osprey, which is the official bird of the City of Kawartha Lakes, can migrate more than 250,000 kilometres during its 15-to-20-year lifetime. (Photo courtesy of City of Kawartha Lakes)

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      Madeleine Endicott and Steve McMurtry have reduced their total energy consumption by 43 per cent and their greenhouse gas emissions by 86 per cent by installing cellulose insulation in the interior walls of their century home near Bonnerworth Park in Peterborough, improving their attic insulation, and replacing their natural gas furnace with air source heat pump. The City of Peterborough's new Better Homes Peterborough program provides city homeowners with low-cost financing to complete similar energy efficiency retrofits that enhance residential building performance. (Photo: Clara Blakelock / GreenUP)

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      Rain gardens are not only visually pleasing, they are designed to hold water for up to 24 hours after a heavy rain, and also act as mini habitats. The City of Peterborough Rain Garden Subsidy program, delivered in partnership with GreenUP, offers up to $1,000 toward the cost of installation for city residents. (Photo: GreenUP)

      Why rain gardens are taking root in Peterborough

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Now known as the Kawartha Lakes Museum and Archives, the Old Gaol Museum was opened in 2011 in the former Victoria County Jail at 50 Victoria Avenue North in Lindsay. (Photo: City of Kawartha Lakes)

Lindsay’s historic Old Gaol building is getting a facelift

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