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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.
Peterborough mayor Diane Therrien (middle) cuts the ribbon for the official opening of the renovated Jo Anne's Place health food store at 1260 Lansdowne Street West in Peterborough. Also pictured (left to right) are city councillors Kim Zippel and Lesley Parnell and Jo Anne's Place owners Margo and Paul Hudson. (Photo: Jeannine Taylor / kawarthaNOW.com)

businessNOW – February 11, 2019

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Featuring Jo Anne's Place, Charlotte Products Ltd., Canadian Canoe Museum, Bobcaygeon Brewing Company, Locavorest, and more.
Bobcaygeon Brewing Company has acquired Peterborough micobrewery Beard Free Brewing and will convert it into an "innovation lab" in spring 2019. (Photo: Bobcaygeon Brewing Company)

Beard Free Brewing in Peterborough acquired by Bobcaygeon Brewing Company

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Microbrewery closed in January after legal issues, will reopen as Bobcaygeon Brewing in spring 2019.
2018 Maple Blues Award winner Emily Burgess with brothers Rico and Marcus Browne in their trio The Emburys. The Toronto Blues Society named Burgess as New Artist/Group of the Year at the Maple Blues Awards ceremony on February 4, 2019. (Photo: Karol Orzechowski)

Peterborough musician Emily Burgess just won a 2018 Maple Blues Award

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Singer-songwriter and guitarist won New Artist/Group of the Year, now heading to tour U.S. with her trio The Emburys.
Nominations are now open for the Women's Business Network of Peterborough's (WBN) Judy Heffernan Award for a female entrepreneur, mentor, or student. The award honours the memory of the late Judy Heffernan, a long-time member of WBN and former general manager of the Peterborough Community Futures Development Corporation. Nominations are also open for the WBN's Women In Business Award. Both awards will be presented on April 9, 2019. (Photo: Christina Robertson)

businessNOW – February 4, 2019

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Featuring Judy Heffernan and Women In Business awards, natural gas expansion in Kawartha Lakes, parking fee donation to Kawartha Food Share, and more.
This ice sculpture of a hockey player by Charlie "Woodchuk" Andolsek on the shores of Chemong Lake in Ennismore was created in advance of the annual PolarFest winter family festival in Selwyn Township. The festival runs from February 1 to 3, 2019 and culminates with the annual BEL Rotary Polar Plunge fundraiser, with the theme "Hockey Plunge in Canada". (Photo courtesy of Steph Bush / @s0_fetchh on Twitter)

Only in Canada: hockey player ice sculpture promotes this weekend’s PolarFest

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Annual winter family festival runs February 1 to 3 in Selwyn Township.
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.
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