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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.
Mexican-Canadian aerial and performance artist Diana Lopez Soto empties a cantaro (clay pot) in mid-air during a performance of her solo work "Nomada", which she will bring to the stage at Market Hall Performing Arts Centre in downtown Peterborough for one night only on April 5, 2024, presented by Public Energy Performing Arts. (Photo: Greg Wong)

Aerial and performance artist Diana Lopez Soto reclaims her Mexican Indigenous heritage in ‘Nomada’

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Public Energy Performing Arts presents the internationally renowned Mexican-Canadian artist's solo work on April 5 at Peterborough's Market Hall.
Leslie Jones as Iris in the premiere 2002 production of Morris Panych's "Girl in the Goldfish Bowl" at the Arts Club Theatre in Vancouver. The award-winning play tells the story of a 10-year-old girl living in a fishery town in 1962 who, convinced the troubles in her world were caused by the death of her pet goldfish, finds a mysterious stranger washed up the ocean's shore who she believes will set her world right. (Photo: Andree Lanthier)

Peterborough Theatre Guild wraps up its season with satirical comedy ‘Girl in the Goldfish...

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Directed by 4th Line Theatre's Kim Blackwell, Morris Panych's award-winning play runs for 10 performances from May 3 to 18.
The Art Gallery of Peterborough on Little Lake, showing the original building (Foster House) that the City of Peterborough donated to the gallery in 1977 and the modern wing that opened two years later. (Photo: Zach Ward)

The Art Gallery of Peterborough is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2024

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Events planned to celebrate gallery's 1974 founding include a fundraising art sale in April and a 50th anniversary celebration in August.
Cobourg entrepreneur and former Northumberland-Peterborough South MP Kim Rudd with her husband Tom in an undated photo. Rudd passed away on March 12, 2024 at the age of 66 following a lengthy battle with ovarian cancer. (Photo: Kim Rudd / Facebook)

Cobourg entrepreneur and former Northumberland-Peterborough South MP Kim Rudd has passed away

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Rudd died on March 12 at Ed's House hospice in Cobourg following a lengthy battle with ovarian cancer.
Matt Anderson, owner of microgreens business Chemong City Greens, was one of the nine graduates of the 2023 ScaleUP program designed to help Peterborough-area businesses grow. Community Futures Peterborough and Scotiabank are partnering once again to bring the program back for spring 2024, with applications open until Tuesday, April 2. (Photo courtesy of Community Futures Peterborough)

ScaleUP program returns to help Peterborough-area entrepreneurs grow their businesses

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Community Futures Peterborough and Scotiabank announce applications open until April 2 for program providing classroom sessions and one-on-one strategic consultations.
Peterborough City Hall in 2017. (Photo: Bruce Head / kawarthaNOW)

What’s on the agenda for Peterborough City Council on Monday

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Items for general committee on March 11 include an update on the modular housing community and architect selection for the new police administrative facility.
Peterborough residents looking for The Body Shop products will need to drive to the Oshawa Centre when the Peterborough location closes. For the time being, the Oshawa location will remain open along with 71 of the 105 stores in Canada. (Photo: The Body Shop Canada)

Peterborough location one of 33 The Body Shop stores closing across Canada

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Canadian subsidiary announced it is filing for bankruptcy protection less than three weeks after parent U.K. company did the same.
During a heated enchange with councillor Alex Bierk at the Peterborough city council meeting on February 26, 2024 during which Mayor Jeff Leal's portfolio chair by-law was debated, the mayor held up a list of advisory committees and boards while stating that a perception that existing committees would be dissolved if the by-law was passed was "malarkey" and "misinformation." (kawarthaNOW screenshot of City of Peterborough video)

Peterborough mayor calls concerns about dissolution of advisory committees under portfolio by-law ‘malarkey’

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Five councillors lost bid to defer vote on Leal's by-law after hearing concerns from six public delegations.
The Peterborough Theatre Guild is presenting "Willow Quartet" by Joan Burrows for nine performances from March 8 to 23, 2024. The drama tells the story of a woman who, after a tragedy ends her marriage, moves back to her childhood home where she invites a charming visiting musician to stay, much to the chagrin of her mother and her estranged husband. (Original artwork: Colton DeKnock)

Peterborough Theatre Guild presents award-winning Canadian drama about grief, healing, and forgiveness

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'Willow Quartet' by Joan Burrows runs for nine performances from March 8 to 23.
Peterborough Mayor Jeff Leal chairing a city council meeting in 2023. (kawarthaNOW screenshot of City of Peterborough video)

Proposed by-law would give Peterborough city councillors the power to dissolve citizen advisory committees

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Brought forward by Mayor Leal, by-law for new portfolio chair system was endorsed by councillors on February 20.
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