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Bruce Head is kawarthaNOW.com's managing editor, chief technical officer, and a contributing writer. If he has any spare time, he enjoys songwriting, playing acoustic guitar, and taking photos of Cait the border collie.
Auden Palmer, director of outreach services at One City Peterborough, addresses Peterborough city council on July 2, 2025 before councillors voted 6-5 against providing continued funding for expanded services at Trinity Centre in 2026 for people experiencing homelessness. (kawarthaNOW screenshot of City of Peterborough video)

Peterborough city council votes against additional homelessness funding at Trinity Centre in 2026

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Council directs city staff to issue an RFP for when overnight shelter contract with One City ends on March 31.
Staff at Trinity Centre in Peterborough preparing to open its overnight drop-in program. (Photo: Trinity Centre 2024-25 annual report)

Peterborough city council votes against additional homelessness funding for One City

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$514,080 in funding would have expanded the daytime and overnight drop-in programs at Trinity Centre in 2026.
James Barrett, Tara Koehler, and Jajube Mandiela star in Globus Theatre's production of "Come Down From Up River" by Norm Foster, which runs for 10 performances from June 25 to July 5, 2025 in Bobcaygeon. Barrett plays Shaver Bennett, a New Brunswick logger who travels to Saint John for a medical issue and hope to stay with his niece Bonnie Doyle, who he hasn't seen in 23 years. Bonnie considers her uncle a redneck and fears his reaction when he discovers she is married to Liv Arsenault, a Black woman. (kawarthaNOW collage of publicity photos)

Funny, family, and forgiveness come together in Norm Foster’s ‘Come Down From Up River’...

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Directed by Sarah Quick and starring James Barrett, Tara Koehler, and Jajube Mandiela, the touching comedy runs from June 25 to July 5 in Bobcaygeon.
A portion of the privately owned 26,300-acre property south of Bancroft known as 'The Park'. Land'escapes owner Ben Samann has worked with the Ontario Conservation Accelerator to have the property recognized as a protected area by both the Governments of Ontario and Canada. (Photo: Office of Minister Todd McCarthy)

26,300-acre tract of land south of Bancroft becomes largest protected area owned by an...

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Owner Ben Samann has partnered with the Ontario Conservation Accelerator to have 'The Park' recognized by the federal and provincial governments
Jennifer Jones, pictured in 2020, joined the Peterborough Public Library in 2015 as head librarian and was appointed CEO in 2017 after acting in the position for almost a year. (Photo: Peterborough Public Library / Facebook)

Jennifer Jones is no longer CEO of the Peterborough Public Library

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Jones, who first joined the library as head librarian in 2015, was in the middle of leading a controversial staffing reorganization.
The Jim Cuddy Band will be performing a free-admission concert at Peterborough Musicfest on July 9, 2025. (Photo: Christopher Gentle)

Peterborough Musicfest announces remaining four free-admission concerts in July

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Preston Pablo with noelle, The Jim Cuddy Band, The Weber Brothers, and Jess Moskaluke will be performing in Del Crary Park.
Lydia the trumpeter swan swimming in the Trent canal in Peterborough on June 15, 2025, after 11 days at Shades of Hope Wildlife Refuge in Pefferlaw. On June 2, Peterborough residents Karen Hjort-Jensen and Peter Hewett had noticed the swan behaving strangely along the trail beside the canal and, after contacting Trumpeter Swan Conservation Ontario, connected with volunteer Steve Paul who captured the bird captured it and transported it to Shades of Hope, suspecting a wing injury. (Photo: Mike McKay)

Lydia the trumpeter swan is healthy and back home in Peterborough

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After capturing the potentially injured swan almost two weeks ago, Steve Paul, Peter Hewett, and Karen Hjort-Jensen released it back into the wild on Sunday morning.
Peterborough Public Health closed beaches at Rogers Cove and Beavermead Park in Peterborough on July 14, 2023 due to possibly harmful blue-green algae blooms. The health unit has announced it will resume weekday testing of the beach's water quality as of June 12, 2025, reversing an earlier decision to stop testing. (Photo: Bruce Head / kawarthaNOW)

Health unit will test water quality at Rogers Cove beach in Peterborough this summer...

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Peterborough Public Health originally decided to stop weekday testing after the city eliminated the beach's lifeguards in the 2025 budget.
Installed in 2019, these three interpretive panels are part of the Nogojiwanong Project in Millennium Park in downtown Peterborough. On June 3, 2025, the panels were defaced with graffiti that included racist remarks, which community members quickly removed. The City of Peterborough will be hosting an in-person healing circle at the site from 2 to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, June 17, along with a virtual healing circle. (Photo: City of Peterborough)

Healing circles available on June 17 for those affected by vandalism to Nogojiwanong Project...

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City of Peterborough is offering a virtual healing circle and an in-person healing circle at the project site in Millennium Park.
Peterborough city councillors Joy Lachica and Alex Bierk during a city council meeting on June 9, 2025 when council voted 6-4 in favour of not imposing a penalty on Mayor Jeff Leal for breaching council's code of conduct after the City of Peterborough's integrity commissioner issued a report that found the mayor had intimidated Bierk and bullied Lachica in relation to council discussions about the controversial Bonnerworth Park redevelopment in April 2024. (kawarthaNOW screenshot of City of Peterborough video)

6 of 10 Peterborough city councillors vote against penalizing Mayor Jeff Leal for intimidating...

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Councillor Joy Lachica revealed the mayor has not fulfilled a promise to come before council and make an apology to her.
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