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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 property housing the Black Horse Pub at 452 George St. N. in downtown Peterborough is one of 411 properties that the City of Peterborough's heritage resources coordinator is recommending be added to the city's heritage register. Owners of properites on the register must wait at least 60 days after applying for a demolition permit to allow city council to determine whether the property should receve a heritage designation, preventing demolition, City council will vote on the resolution on January 28, 2019. (Photo: National Trust for Canada)

businessNOW – January 28, 2019

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Featuring City of Peterborough heritage register, City of Kawartha Lakes capital budget, Bears' Lair, Long & McQuade Peterborough, Peterborough Musicfest, and more.
CEO Bolis Ibrahim of Argentum Electronics pitches at Venture13 in Cobourg as part of the Northumberland CFDC's 2018 N100 Evolution technology startup competition. Argentum Electronics, which develops cloud-managed smart power solutions using Power over Ethernet, has won the competition and secured an investment of $250,000 it will use to bring its products to market. (Supplied photo)

businessNOW – January 21, 2019

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Featuring Argentum Electronics, Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation Centre, Amy Terrill, Catalina Motta, Martin Yuill, Innovation Cluster, and more.
If there are clear skies, the total lunar eclipse overnight on Sunday, January 20, 2019 will be visible in the Kawarthas. When the earth's shadow falls completely over the moon, it will appear "blood" red. (Photo: NASA)

Don’t miss the ‘Super Blood Wolf Moon’ in the Kawarthas on Sunday night

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Rare total lunar eclipse begins at 11:41 p.m. and ends at 12:44 a.m. Monday morning.
The Ontario government has announced the five winners of the cannabis retail store lottery in eastern Ontario, although the location of the winners has not been announced. Only the cities of Peterborough and Kawartha Lakes are eligible in the Kawarthas to host cannabis retail stores in 2019. Peterborough City Council has already voted to opt-in to allow cannabis retail stores in the municipality, with Kawartha Lakes City council will be voting on January 15, 2019.

businessNOW – January 14, 2019

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Featuring Eastern Ontario cannabis retail store lottery winners, Ctrl V, ignite100, provincial tourism consultation, Baker Tilly, Russ Parker, and more.
"The Woman Who Loves Giraffes", a biographical documentary in which Canadian biologist Dr. Anne Innis Dagg re-traces the steps of her groundbreaking 1956 journey to South Africa to study giraffes in the wild, is one of the 70 films screening at the 2019 ReFrame Film Festival in downtown Peterborough. The film will be shown on Saturday, January 26th at Showplace Performance Centre. Dr. Dagg, pictured here feeding giraffes at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo, will be attending the ReFrame screening. (Photo: Elaisa Vargas)

Peterborough’s ReFrame Film Festival releases its 2019 schedule

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70 documentary films screen from January 24 to 27 at three downtown venues.
The City of Kawartha Lakes' Million Dollar Makeover offers matching fund grants of up to 50 per cent to business and property owners in the downtown areas of Coboconk (pictured), Lindsay, Omemee, Norland, and Fenelon Falls. The funds can cover costs of signage, façade work, and building repair and renovations. Low-interest loans are also available to property owners across the municipality. The deadline to apply for the program is January 17, 2019. (Photo courtesy of the City of Kawartha Lakes)

businessNOW – January 7, 2019

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Featuring Million Dollar Makeover in Kawartha Lakes, new FedDev Ontario funding, Inclusive Advisory, grand openings of Nateure's Plate and Juniper, and more.
Our top story for 2018 was the Peterborough Humane Society's transfer in April of 15 dogs of different breeds (including the Norweigan Elk Hound, Tossa, and Korean Jindo) from Montreal to Peterborough for adoption, part of a group of 80 dogs that Humane Society International rescued from a Korean meat farm, where they lived in terrible conditions and were fated to be slaughtered. This photo of a Korean Jindo pup, a breed of hunting dog that originated on Jindo (an island just southwest of the Korean Peninsula) was part of a 2014 story on the breed in The New York Times. (Photo: Jean Chung for The New York Times)

The year in review: our top stories in 2018

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Peterborough Humane Society's rescue of dogs from Korean meat farm most popular story we published in 2018.
The Neil Young mural on the side of Omemee's Coronation Hall, where Young performed his "Home Town" concert on December 1, 2017. (Photo courtesy of City of Kawartha Lakes)

Omemee mural pays tribute to native son Neil Young

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Mural is installed on Coronation Hall, where Young performed his 2017 'Home Town' concert.
Artist collective Atelier Ludmila is presenting "Granny and The Starchild Winter Solstice Celebration" on Friday, December 21, 2018 in downtown Peterborough, featuring a drummer-led lantern parade and five special stages with dancers, musicians, and puppets performing in and around Peterborough Square. Pictured is the 2017 lantern parade, led by the Starchild. (Photo: Andy Carroll)

Celebrate the return of the light on the winter solstice

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'Granny & The Starchild Winter Solstice Celebration' takes place in downtown Peterborough on Friday night.
Sana Virji and Ribat Chowdhury, co-founders of Ribitt, which has recently raised $600,000 in seed round funding for an additional expansion of the company's free mobile rewards app to businesses across Canada. (Photo: Ribitt)

businessNOW – December 17, 2018

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Featuring Ribitt, Flying Colours Corp, Mike's Tattoo, The Food Forest, natural gas for Fenelon Falls, business events in the New Year, and more.
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