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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 General Electric factory complex at 107 Park Street North in downtown Peterborough, which began operations in 1891 as the Canadian Works of the Thomas Edison Company and later continued under General Electric. The site includes a complex of 33 buildings built between 1891 and 1981 and used for industrial manufacturing and ancillary purposes. In 2018, General Electric ceased its manufacturing activities on the site, with most of the buildings now decomissioned with machinery and equipment removed. (Photo: Google Earth)

Ontario’s environment minister responds to Peterborough mayor on proposed demolition of toxic General Electric...

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October 24 letter states ministry staff will ensure demolition process 'protects public health and the environment'.
Terry, a Peterborough resident who supports himself by delivering papers and recycling bottles and cans, tries out the prototype sleeping cabin built by Peterborough Action for Tiny Homes (PATH). After leasing a site at 385 Lansdowne Street East from Habitat for Humanity Peterborough and Kawartha Region, PATH applied to the City of Peterborough for a temporary use zoning by-law amendment to build 24 one-room sleeping cabins with wrap-around services to help address the city's homelessness crisis. Although city staff recommended approval of the application, Peterborough city council voted against it, prompting PATH to appeal the decision to the Ontario Land Tribunal. (Photo: Peterborough Action for Tiny Homes)

Tribunal rejects Peterborough Action for Tiny Homes appeal, ending plans for Lansdowne St. sleeping...

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Ontario Land Tribunal upholds city council's 2024 decision, ruling cabins are residential dwellings too close to neighbouring industry,
Lesley Heighway, president and CEO of the Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) Foundation, received a standing ovation as she accepted the Business Citizen of the Year award at the Peterborough and the Kawarthas Chamber of Commerce's 23rd annual Peterborough Business Excellence s at Showplace Performance Centre in downtown Peterborough on October 22, 2025. (Photo: Bruce Head / kawarthaNOW)

PRHC Foundation president and CEO Lesley Heighway named Peterborough’s Business Citizen of the Year

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The Peterborough and the Kawarthas Chamber of Commerce's annual Peterborough Business Excellence Awards recognized 21 businesses and individuals,
An audience in Stratford watches a screening of "We Lend A Hand: The Forgotten Story of Ontario Farmerettes", produced and directed by Colin Field with historical producer Bonnie Sitter, who wrote the 2019 book "Onion Skins and Peach Fuzz: Memories of Ontario Farmerettes" with retired journalist Shirleyan English. (Photo via welendahand.ca)

Award-winning Farmerettes documentary comes to Lakefield on November 26

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'We Lend A Hand: The Forgotten Story of Ontario Farmerettes' tells the story of the 40,000 teenage girls who worked Canadian farms during World War II.
Karen Coughlin and Aaron Solomon perform as June Carter Cash and Johnny Cash in a production of "Johnny & June" at Hudson Village Theatre in Quebec in 2023. The jukebox musical comes to Globus Theatre in Bobcaygeon for five performances from October 23 to 25, 2025. (Photo: Hudson Village Theatre)

Country music legends come to life in ‘Johnny & June’ at Globus Theatre in...

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As Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash, Aaron Solomon and Karen Coughlin perform beloved hits from 'Folsom Prison Blues' to 'Ring of Fire'.
Port Hope once again stands in for the fictional town of Derry, Maine in the new HBO supernatural horror series "It: Welcome to Derry," a prequel to the two "It" films based on Stephen King's novel that were also partly filmed in Port Hope. Free tickets for a special "red carpet premiere" screening of the first two episodes of the series, which is set in 1962, at the Capitol Theatre on October 29, 2025 were snatched up within an hour of when they became available. (kawarthaNOW screenshot of trailer)

Tickets snatched up in an hour for ‘It: Welcome to Derry’ series premiere at...

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Box office was swamped online, by phone, and in person as fans rushed to claim free seats for the Stephen King prequel filmed in the community.
The 2014 demolition of Building 7 at the General Electric factory complex in downtown Peterborough captured by photographer Wayne Eardley as part of his "Caribou" series that was featured at the 2016 SPARK Photo Festival and the Art Gallery of Peterborough. Building 7 was part of the General Electric's armature department, which built coils for motors and generators, stators, DC motors, armatures, and more. (Photo: Wayne Eardley)

Peterborough county council requests information about proposed demolition of contaminated GE buildings

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Council unanimously passed October 15 motion related to concerns about quality and volume of materials that could be disposed at city-county landfill.
The General Electric factory complex at 107 Park Street North in downtown Peterborough, which began operations in 1891 as the Canadian Works of the Thomas Edison Company and later continued under General Electric. The site includes a complex of 33 buildings built between 1891 and 1981 and used for industrial manufacturing and ancillary purposes. In 2018, General Electric ceased its manufacturing activities on the site, with most of the buildings now decomissioned with machinery and equipment removed. (Photo: Google Earth)

‘History will remember’: Peterborough city council to allow demolition of contaminated GE buildings

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Public delegations urged council to consider environmental and public safety concerns before permitting GE Vernova to demolish buildings.
A scene from the 2019 documentary "Town of Widows" by Natasha Luckhardt and Rob Viscardis about the fight for justice by former General Electric workers and their widows in Peterborough who believe illnesses and cancer deaths in their community are linked to toxic exposure from the GE plant. (kawarthaNOW screenshot)

Peterborough city councillor says council’s GE demolition decision violates Ontario Heritage Act

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Joy Lachica accuses mayor of concealing notice of demolition from council for nearly a month as concerns grow over heritage, environmental, and public health impacts.
Peterborough city councillor Alex Bierk displays an "intake clinic hazard map," from a 2017 Unifor report detailing the toxic chemical exposures at the General Electric site between 1945 and 2000, during a general committee meeting on October 6, 2025 when council considered a notice of demolition of a large number of vacant buildings at the historic factory complex at 107 Park Street North. (kawarthaNOW screenshot of City of Peterborough video)

Peterborough city council approves demolition of most of historic GE factory site despite contamination...

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After lengthy debate, council accepts GE Vernova's recommendations to preserve only select historic structures.
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