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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.
Post Consumer Brands's Weetabix cereal manufacturing facility at 751 D'Arcy Street in Cobourg. (Photo: Google Maps)

Post Holdings to close Weetabix plant in Cobourg by end of year

Around 150 people will lose their jobs, with company citing declining demand for ready-to-eat cereal as reason for closure.
The new Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough is featured on the April 2025 cover of Canadian Architect magazine. (Image: Canadian Architect)

Peterborough’s new Canadian Canoe Museum receives more national recognition

Canadian Architect magazine features the museum on its April cover and recognizes the work of local architectural firm Unity Design Studio.
Neil Young performing at his "Home Town" concert at Coronation Hall in Omemee in 2017. (kawarthaNOW screenshot)

Legendary Canadian musician Neil Young to perform benefit concert for Lakefield College School on...

Tickets range from $500 to $1,000 for solo outdoor concert at the farm on the school's Northcote campus,
Peterborough County Warden Bonnie Clark speaks to the media at an ice storm response daily briefing on April 5, 2025 at the Peterborough County-City Paramedics base in East City, as Peterborough Mayor Jeff Leal (seated), Peterborough-Kawartha MPP Dave Smith (standing), Peterborough County-City Paramedics Chief Patricia Bromfield, and Peterborough County OPP detachment commander Chris Galeazza look on. (Photo: Jeannine Taylor / kawarthaNOW)

Peterborough’s political leaders provide first of daily media briefings on ice storm response

'We will be dealing with this for a number of weeks' says MPP Dave Smith at Saturday morning briefing.
World-famous Canadian actor and comedian Mike Myers making an "elbows up" gesture during the closing credits of Saturday Night Life on March 1, 2025. (kawarthaNOW screenshot)

Mike Myers bringing his ‘Elbows Up Comedy Tour’ to the Peterborough Memorial Centre this...

Line-up will include a selection of famous Canada-born comedians and comic actors including Jim Carrey.
Downed tree limbs in a west-end neighbourhood of Peterborough on March 30, 2025 after a major weekend ice storm across central and eastern Ontario. (Photo: Barry Killen)

Kawarthas region deals with aftermath of major weekend ice storm

The City and County of Peterborough, Kawartha Lakes, and Haliburton Highlands have declared a state of emergency.
Fleming College has campuses in Peterborough (pictured), Lindsay, Haliburton, and Cobourg. (Photo: Fleming College)

Fleming College eliminating eight more programs to deal with ‘significant deficit’

Of Ontario's 24 colleges, 16 have recently eliminated more than 300 programs due to caps on international students and tuition.
The Canadian Canoe Museum's atrium will be transformed into a performance venue for the new "Music in the Museum" concert series, which kicks off on May 24, 2025 with a performance by Juno award-winning roots musician Old Man Luedecke. Proceeds from the concert series will help subsidize the museum's youth backcountry canoeing program. (Photo courtesy of The Canadian Canoe Museum)

Peterborough’s Canadian Canoe Museum launches new ‘Music in The Museum’ series

Canadian concert series will kick off May 24 with a performance by award-winning roots musician Old Man Luedecke in the museum's atrium.
Kerry Griffin and Linda Kash perform in "A Christmas Carol Comedy" at Peterborough's Market Hall in December 2024, presented by New Stages Peterborough. The non-profit theatre company is one of four arts organizations recommended to receive the maximum $15,000 grant under the City of Peterborough's community investment grant program. Meeting as general committee on March 31, 2025, Peterborough city council will be asked to endorse recommendations for a total of $188,135 in community project grants and community investment grants to 43 community organizations. (Photo: Dahlia Katz)

Peterborough city council asked to approve $188,135 in new grants to 43 community organizations

Recipients of maximum $15,000 community investment grant would include New Stages Peterborough and Peterborough Symphony Orchestra.
Canadian rocker Kim Mitchell will make his fifth appearance at Peterborough Musicfest, performing songs from Max Webster and his solo career during a free-admission concert at Del Crary Park in downtown Peterborough on August 16, 2025 to close out the festival's 38th season. (Photo: Al Pettman)

Canadian rocker Kim Mitchell returns to Peterborough Musicfest on August 16

Solo artist and former Max Webster frontman will close out Musicfest's 38th season with a free-admission concert in Del Crary Park.

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