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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.
Some of the tents pitched by unsheltered people at the Rehill parking lot in December 2022 near the City of Peterborough's overflow shelter at 210 Wolfe Street in downtown Peterborough. The tent encampment has created a range of issues for homeowners and business owners in the area. (Photo: Matt Crowley / Twitter)

Peterborough city council endorses homelessness plan to end tenting near Wolfe Street shelter

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'The era of tenting is over' Mayor Leal proclaims of plan to install temporary modular housing units and support services by the fall.
Located at 83 Robinson Street in Peterborough's East City, the John C. Sullivan House was built in 1886 and designed by famed Peterborough architect William Blackwell. The Sullivan family, which founded Sullivan's Pharmacy, sold the home in the Roman Catholic diocese in 1936 which used it as a convent from 1941 until 1953. (Photo: Bruce Head / kawarthaNOW)

Historic home built for founder of Sullivan’s Pharmacy in East City going up for...

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Listed for $1.4 million, John C. Sullivan House was built in 1886, designed by famed Peterborough architect William Blackwell, and later served as a convent.
Canadian drum legend Paul DeLong wears a Mahavishnu Orchestra T-shirt, in honour of the jazz fusion band that inspired him to become a musician 50 years to the day when he brings his own jazz fusion band ONE WORD to the Gordon Best Theatre in downtown Peterborough on May 4, 2023. (Photo: Trevor Hesselink / Groundswell Photography)

‘Unforgettable night of fusion’ coming to Gordon Best in downtown Peterborough on May 4

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Canadian drum legend Paul DeLong's jazz fusion band ONE WORD includes Peterborough's own award-winning electric violinist Victoria Yeh.
Minden residents Patrick Porzuczek, Laura Porzuczek, and Richard Bradley (middle) with NDP health critic France Gélinas (left) and NDP MPP Spadina-Fort York Chris Glover (right) in front of the Legislature at Queen's Park in Toronto on April 27, 2023, where they delivered a petition requesting a moratorium of the decision to close the Minden emergency department on June 1. (Photo via France Gélinas / Facebook)

Minden residents deliver petition to Queen’s Park protesting emergency department closure

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Haliburton Highlands Health Services officials appear at Minden Hills Township and Haliburton County council meetings to explain rationale for closure,
Canadian poet, novelist, playwright, and critic George Elliott Clarke at the 2016 Lakefield Literary Festival. (Photo: Andrew Wolf)

Lakefield Literary Festival returns in July after three-year pandemic hiatus

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Festival will be presenting five authors to be announced as well as a children's tent on July 14 and 15.
Country musician Nathan Traux, recipient of the Peterborough Folk Festival's 2022 Emerging Artist Award, performing at the 2022 festival on the Pavilion Stage at Nicholls Oval Park. (Photo courtesy of Peterborough Folk Festival)

Peterborough Folk Festival accepting applications for 2023 Emerging Artist Award

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Application deadline is May 31, with annual music festival returning to Peterborough from August 18 to 20.
The Theatre On King's artistic director Ryan Kerr addresses Peterborough City Council on March 27, 2023 to appeal the decision to deny the arts organization a community investment grant for 2023 after providing them the maximum grant in 2022. (Photo: Sebastian Johnston-Lindsay)

Peterborough city council votes against funding The Theatre On King

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Despite eloquent and impassioned pleas from delegations, vote for additional funding after denial of community investment grant failed 3-7.
Toronto-based Juno-nominated jazz quartet Time Warp (Al Henderson, Barry Elmes, Kelly Jefferson, and Kevin Turcotte) will headline International Jazz Day Peterborough on April 30, 2023 with a matinee concert at Market Hall Performing Arts Centre in downtown Peterborough. (kawarthaNOW collage of photos from Time Warp)

International Jazz Day musical celebrations return to Peterborough at the end of April

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'Dine with jazz' at downtown restaurants on April 29 with Canadian jazz quartet Time Warp performing at the Market Hall on April 30,
Performers at Westben in Campbellford for the 2023 season include (left to right, top and bottom) Measha Brueggergosman-Lee, Sacha, Dan Hill, Emilie-Claire Barlow, Janina Fialkowska, Chantal Kreviazuk, Lennie Gallant, and Jill Barber. (kawarthaNOW collage)

Music will fill the air at Westben in Campbellford this summer

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Performers include Measha Brueggergosman-Lee, Sacha, Dan Hill, Emilie-Claire Barlow, Janina Fialkowska, Chantal Kreviazuk, Lennie Gallant, Jill Barber, and more,
Canadian-Argentinian pianist Alexander Panizza will join the Peterborough Symphony Orchestra during "Welcome Spring" on April 1, 2023 to perform Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23". The orchestra will also perform works by Canadian composer Alice Ping Yee Ho and Jean Sibelius. (Photo: Charles Maurer)

Celebrate spring when the Peterborough Symphony Orchestra performs joyous music on April 1

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Pianist Alexander Panizza joins the orchestra for 'Welcome Spring' at Showplace Performance Centre featuring works by Ho, Tchaikovsky, and Sibelius.
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