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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.
Huge Shops Ontario has applied to the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario to open a cannabis retail store at 225 George Street North in downtown Peterborough. The Toronto-based cannabis retailer originally proposed a store to be located at the plaza at Fowlers Corners in Kawartha Lakes but decided to move the proposed store after municipal zoning issues were identified with that location. (Photo: Bruce Head / kawarthaNOW.com)

businessNOW – January 7, 2020

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Featuring Huge Shops' proposed cannabis store in downtown Peterborough, Peterborough & the Kawarthas Starter Company Plus, Digital Tranformation Grants, Kawartha-Haliburton Children's Aid Society, and more.
This building at 225 George Street North, near the corner of Sherbrooke Street in downtown Peterborough, is the new proposed location of the first legal cannabis store in the Kawarthas. Toronto-based cannabis retailer Huge Shops Ontario Inc. was originally authorized to open its "Grower's Retail" store in the plaza at Fowlers Corners outside the city limits, but has since applied to move the store to downtown Peterborough. (Photo: Bruce Head / kawarthaNOW.com)

Downtown Peterborough may be the new location of the first legal cannabis store in...

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Huge Shops originally proposed opening Grower's Retail store in Fowlers Corners.
Canadian space robotics company MDA Corporation built the Canadarm robotic arm for NASA's space shuttle program. Peterborough-raised billionaire Jim Balsillie is one of a consortium of Canadian investors acquiring MDA Corporation, headed by Peterborough native Mike Greenley, from its American parent company. (Photo: NASA)

businessNOW – December 31, 2019

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Featuring MDA Corporation, Peterborough's downtown farmers' markets, Scotiabank Port Hope, South Bay Marketing and Events, Starter Company Plus, and more.
A collage of photos from 16 of our 19 most-read and most-shared stories of 2019.

Our 19 most popular stories of 2019

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Our most-read and most-shared stories about Peterborough and the Kawarthas in the past year.
Our look back at business and organizational news in 2019 in Peterborough and the Kawarthas includes this past summer's launch of the Trent-Severn Trail Town program, Canada's first waterway "trail town" program that links communities along the Trent-Severn Waterway (including Campbellford, Hastings, Lakefield, Buckhorn, Lindsay, Bobcaygeon, Fenelon Falls, Coboconk, and Rosedale) to encourage regional tourism and support local business. Pictured at the August 22nd launch at Ranney Falls (Locks 11-12) in Campbellford (from left to right): Cycle Forward founder and trail town consultant Amy Camp, Northumberland-Peterborough South MP Kim Rudd, Kawarthas Northumberland/Regional Tourism Organization 8 (RTO8) Executive Director Brenda Wood, Parks Canada Associate Director for Ontario Waterways Dwight Blythe, and Northumberland-Peterborough South MPP David Piccini. (Photo courtesy of RTO8)

businessNOW – Our top business headlines from 2019

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A look back at the top business and organizational news from the past year.
Six local small business owners have each received a $5,000 micro-grant to help them grow their businesses under the Starter Company Plus program, funded by the Ontario government and administered through the Peterborough & the Kawarthas Business Advisory Centre. From left to right: Rooted Lavender, Organized by Design, Wilde Beauty, Kawartha Complete Care, Your Second Family - Respite Services, and B & B Game Designs. (Photo courtesy of Peterborough & the Kawarthas Economic Development)

businessNOW – December 10, 2019

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Featuring Starter Company Plus funding for six local entrepreneurs, Watson & Lou winning downtown Peterborough holiday window contest, Ontario government investing $1.5 million in local aviation and aerospace sector, and more.
Sandra Young has opened a new vintage clothing shop called Statement House at 378 Water Street in downtown Peterborough. The retail shop specializes in vintage clothing from the 1940s to the 1960s, and also carries new or gently used items with a vintage or retro feel. (Photo courtesy of Statement House)

businessNOW – December 3, 2019

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Featuring new vintage clothing shop Statement House in downtown Peterborough, an award for The Kawartha Store in Fenelon Falls, Crayola Canada donating $45,132 to the United Way, and more.
The Monarch Ultra team at a reception in Apaseo El Alto in Guanajuato, Mexico for the Monarch Ultra runners. In total, 46 ultra-runners participated in the relay that departed Peterborough, Canada on September 19, 2019 and arrived at the Cerro Pelon Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary in Mexico's Sierra Madre Mountains on November 4, 2019. The seven-week journey followed the 4,300-kilometre migratory path of the monarch butterfly, all to raise awareness of the plight of the monarch buttefly and other pollinators whose populations are in steep decline. (Photo: Rodney Fuentes)

Monarch Ultra Relay successfully completes epic 4,300-kilometre run from Canada to Mexico

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Project raised awareness of plight of monarch butterfly, second relay run being planned for 2021.
Peterborough Downtown Business Improvement Area (DBIA) executive director Terry Guiel and marketing committee member Julie Morris with Gail and John Martin, owners of John Roberts Clothiers, one of 100 downtown businesses participating in Black Friday and the Holiday Shopping Passport program, where you can win prizes by choosing local first for your holiday shopping. (Photo courtesy of Peterborough DBIA)

businessNOW – November 26, 2019

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Featuring Black Friday in downtown Peterborough, an international award for Treetop Trekking, a new online auction service from Curated, upcoming regional business events, and more.
Members of the Enactus Fleming College team behind Paper Plant Project (with Fleming College professor of business studies and lead Enactus faculty advisor Raymond Yip Choy at the back) celebrating their win of the grand prize at the fifth annual Cubs' Lair entrepreneurship competition, held on November 21, 2019 at the Gordon Best Theatre in downtown Peterborough. This is the third prize since September for the Paper Plant Project, a social enterprise that produces paper planters from recycled paper waste as educative kits for schools to promote biodegradable practices. (Photo courtesy of Innovation Cluster)

Fleming College students win Cubs’ Lair entrepreneurship competition

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Paper Plant Project produces paper planters from recycled paper waste as educative kits for schools.
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