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Bruce Head
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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.
The head office of the Kawartha Haliburton Children's Aid Society is located at 1100 Chemong Road in Peterborough. (Photo: Google Maps)

Kawartha Haliburton Children’s Aid Society board resigns after Ontario government installs supervisor

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Minister of Children, Community, and Social Services has appointed Rosaleen Cutler to oversee and manage the child welfare agency.
18-year-old Logan was last seen in Havelock on October 13, 2024. (Family photo)

Autistic Havelock teen Logan still missing after nine days

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His mother has set up a Facebook group to help with search after 18-year-old Logan went missing on October 13.
Canadian virtuoso pianist David Jalbert will join the Peterborough Symphony Orchestra as a guest artist for the third time to perform Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninov's famously challenging "Piano Concerto no. 3" during the orchestra's season-opening concert "Romantic Flames" on November 2, 2024 at Showplace Performance Centre in downtown Peterborough. (Photo via David Jalbert website)

Pianist David Jalbert will tackle Rachmaninov’s famous concerto at Peterborough Symphony Orchestra season opener

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'Romantic Flames' on November 2 at Showplace Performance Centre will also feature works by Czech composer Antonín Dvorák and Cree composer Andrew Balfour.
Peterborough County's new economic development and tourism team (Tracie Bertrand, Rhonda Keenan, and Sarah Budd) in front of the county's new business information hub located in the former post office at 12 Queen Street in downtown Lakefield. (Photo: Peterborough County)

Peterborough County launches new business information hub in downtown Lakefield

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County is hosting a 'meet the team' open house event on October 21 during Small Business Week.
Justine Christensen and Edward Sweeney star as Mary and Charlie in the Peterborough Theatre Guild's production of "Mary's Wedding," an award-winning romantic historical drama by Canadian playwright Stephen Massicotte. The play runs for 10 performance from October 25 to November 9, 2024 at the Guild Hall in Peterborough's East City. (kawarthaNOW screenshot of Peterborough Theatre Guild video)

Peterborough Theatre Guild presents celebrated Canadian romantic historical drama from October 25 to November...

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Justine Christensen and Edward Sweeney star in playwright Stephen Massicotte's World War I play 'Mary's Wedding'.
Founded by Ennismore couple Ainsley and Dario Gabbani, Maple Light introduced its eponymous product this past summer. Containing only water, vodka, maple syrup, and citric acid, the hard maple seltzer is now available in Peterborough-area bars and restaurants. (Photo: Maple Light)

Peterborough company Maple Light launches alcoholic beverage celebrating Canada’s most iconic flavour

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Founded by Ennismore couple Ainsley and Dario Gabbani, Maple Light's hard maple seltzer is now available in local bars and restaurants.
Renowned Canadian dancer and choreographer Bill Coleman at Showplace Performance Centre in downtown Peterborough during a rehearsal for "Is This Tap?", presented by Showplace in partnership with Public Energy Performing Arts on October 10, 2024. Coleman's performance will be animated by spectacular lighting effects and projections by Dutch multimedia artist Edwin van der Heide. (Photo courtesy of Public Energy)

The mysteries of Bill Coleman’s new work ‘Is This Tap?’ to be revealed at...

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Presented in partnership with Public Energy, renowned dancer's collaboration with Dutch multimedia artist Edwin van der Heide takes place on October 10.
Peterborough Action for Tiny Homes (PATH) chair Trish Campbell, Habitat for Humanity Peterborough and Kawartha Region CEO Susan Zambonin, PATH land acquisition working group lead Keith Dalton, and Habitat for Humanity communications and donor services manager Jenn MacDonald outside Habitat for Humanity's Milroy Drive location on April 25, 2023, when it was announced that Habitat would lease the former Peterborough Humane Society property at 385 Lansdowne Street to PATH for a sleeping cabin community. (Photo: Paul Rellinger / kawarthaNOW)

Peterborough Action for Tiny Homes fighting back against city council decision

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Organization files Ontario Land Tribunal appeal after council denied temporary use by-law to allow sleeping cabins at 385 Lansdowne Street.
Peterborough County announced on September 27, 2024 that it has hired Rhonda Keenan as the county's new general manager of economic development and Sarah Budd as its manager of community development. The two women will join the county's existing general manager of tourism and communications Tracie Bertrand. (kawarthaNOW collage)

Peterborough County hires Rhonda Keenan and Sarah Budd to lead regional economic growth and...

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Former PKED president and CEO and former Chamber president and CEO will join Tracie Bertrand to form 'a trifecta of excellence'
A Lakefield native, Sarah Budd was CEO of Habitat for Humanity Peterborough & Kawartha Region for almost 15 years before joining RBC in Lakefield. She was named the Kawartha Chamber of Commerce and Tourism citiizen of the year in October 2021. In August 2022, she was named president and CEO of the Peterborough and the Kawarthas Chamber of Commerce, taking over from the retiring Stuart Harrison. (Photo courtesy of Peterborough and the Kawarthas Chamber of Commerce)

Sarah Budd resigning as president and CEO of Peterborough and the Kawarthas Chamber of...

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Budd's resignation after two years in the role is effective October 18, with Gail Moorhouse stepping in as interim president and CEO.
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